Gunga Sain (Dhol Master) India Stage Best Performance
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Biography

The Story of the DHOL PLAYER As a little child Gonga Sain had a strong infection in his ear and became a deaf. Yet, today he is one of the best Dhol players in Pakistan and has played all over the world also in Europe. Sufis use music to connect with their god Allah.
He has taken his Sufi-style of drumming to Germany, Switzerland, and Britain, and has performed throughout the Muslim world.


The drumbeats of Dhol have for centuries been a vital element in the ceremonies of the great Sufi mystics and their followers.
The rhythms of Dhol have been developed to catalyze the mind of the devotee as is seeking spiritual trance, nearness to Allah.
The brothers Gunga Sain and Mithu Sain are among the foremost representatives of Sufi Dhol in Pakistan.
Since their early childhood they have been exploring and developing the rhythmical tradition of the subcontinent, and today their unique abilities have been recognized in Pakistan and around the world including Japan Australia, United Kingdom, America, Poland, Denmark, Switzerland, Canada.

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The drumbeats of Dhol have for centuries been a vital element in the ceremonies of the great Sufi mystics and their followers.
The rhythms of Dhol have been developed to catalyze the mind of the devotee as is seeking spiritual trance, nearness to Allah.
The brothers Gunga Sain and Mithu Sain are among the foremost representatives of Sufi Dhol in Pakistan.
Since their early childhood they have been exploring and developing the rhythmical tradition of the subcontinent, and today their unique abilities have been recognized in Pakistan and around the world including Japan Australia, United Kingdom, America, Poland, Denmark, Switzerland, Canada.

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He has been deaf since childhood. Yet Gonga Sain one of Pakistan's most acclaimed percussion artists. Together with his brother Mithu Sain he behaves rituals of the Islamic Sufi mysticism spiritual world on dhol - special drums one has performed music of this sort happened with Sufi mysticism golden age between 900 and 1400th

With an almost occult sense of rhythm and repetition creates a magical trance duo who are just as otherworldly and enigmatic as the dizzying patterns of a Persian carpet

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