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TAXI DRIVERS
Cab drivers are as international a group of music-lovers as you'll find anywhere. Click below to hear the tunes that keep the Bristol drivers going.
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1 Our Society
2 Iceberg
3 Meri Tauba
4 Widaa
5 Galim im Roa
6 Akhian
7 Saving Myself
8 Chura Liya
9 Shater
10 Universal Struggle
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Contributor
PATRICK GAYLE
SOROOSH VAKILPOUR
MANZOOR HUSSAIN
ADEL SHAHIN
MOHAMED BEN HASSEN
SHAHBAZ SHAFI
'ICE' aka DAVID TINLING
SHAHAID HUSSAIN
HOSNI AL ALANEH
JIMMY SWING
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Track: Meri Tauba
Artist: Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Music: Qaawali
Chosen by: Manzoor Hussain (Bristol)
 ÌýÌýListen to Manzoor Hussain and hear the track Meri Tauba by Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan taken from the album The King Khan (Sonic CD061)
I am a British Muslim. I was born in this country and my parents are from Pakistan. I have been brought up in Bristol for the past 37 years, which is a long time, and I live in Easton which is very highly populated with Asian, West Indians, all origins. My father used to run a family Taxi office and that is how I got into the Taxi line, and I have been doing this job for 15 years. It’s an independent job, you are your own boss and it sort of gels with my Asian way of life. We do tend to have a lot of family gatherings and I can make time for that, so this job is ideal.
I like Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan because he came on the scene in the late ‘80s and he pioneered Indian fusion using Indian classical music, western classical music, western rock even, which appealed to everyone in the west and Europe. Poor chap, he is dead now but he has left a bit of a reputation - he still is a legend. Because younger Asians today aren’t that religious and because he plays religious music with a western beat, that’s why its more appealing. He is soulful, he is very soothing, very therapeutic even.
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