1942

Aziz Mian Qawwal (Urdu: عزیز میاں قوال) (17 April 1942 – 6 December 2000) was a Pakistani traditional qawwal famous for singing ghazals in his own style of qawwali and is considered one of the greatest qawwals in South Asia.^[2][3][4] He holds the record for singing the longest commercially released qawwali, Hashr Ke Roz Yeh Poochhunga, which runs slightly over 115 minutes.^[4] Aziz is known by sobriquets :”Shahenshah-e-Qawwali” (King of Qawwali), “Fauji Qawwal”(Military Singer),^[5] since his early performances were often in army barracks, and “the Nietzschean Qawwal