“Let’s throw the truth away / We’ll find it in this kiss,” sang Bruce Springsteen in his 2002 song “Worlds Apart.” The line sounds Sufi enough to have come from Khayyam, Rumi, or Hafiz. Even more so ...

On Saturday night, Pakistani singer Asif Ali Khan and his group brought qawwali— a form of Sufi devotional music that has been in existence for more than 700 years, and that remains prevalent today in ...

When singer Amy Winehouse died in 2011 of alcohol poisoning at age 27, most people knew her as an inglorious train wreck, having witnessed her steady descent into self-destruction as if in real time.

Soulful jazz singer Amy Winehouse was only 27-years-old when she died, a fact I temporarily forgot while watching Asif Kapadia's Amy, a documentary exploring the life of the late English crooner. From ...