A little bit country, a little bit Desi: A Pakistani-American’s hybrid music
When the singer-songwriter Mo Sabri was growing up in East Tennessee, his Pakistani immigrant parents loved playing the swirling, rhythmic sounds of qawwali, Sufi Muslim devotional music. They also loved playing country classics by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton. After all, Johnson City, Sabri's hometown, is a 30-minute drive from Bristol, Tenn., known as the birthplace of country music. Those…
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