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With wife, Doris“You had to have a ‘high’ voice to carry a good Qawwali, and that’s what I had above them.”By Neil MarksThese days Balgobin Quawall sports a thick pair of lenses – well, he always has. But the one he now wears scream vintage ’60s; it’s almost his signature, he laughs.He has been recognized by the glasses for decades, travelling from house to house, village to village.He is now 77 years old, and recently had surgery for cataract, but he gets around his modest home at Howes Street, Charlestown, with so much ease he believes he is still the spritely young man he once used to be.For almost six decades, Balgobin has entertained small and large audiences alike with a voice that ended up giving him his “name” in the first place.“Quawall” is actually not his real name. His name is really Balgobin Latchman. But well known Guyanese broadcaster Ayube Hamid saw more in the Kingston lad than just a singer. He was a master at singing Qawwalis, the music honed by the Persians of today’s Afghanistan and Iran over the last seven centuries.Hamid (now deceased) hosted singing competitions on the radio, and the young Balgobin Latchman had visited his studios many a time.But at the time when he decided he wanted to make singing a career, there were already class acts on the market like Gobin Ram, Mohan Nandu, and Sudama, singing Hindi film songs that were a hit with the masses.“There was no way I could compete with them,” he confesses.But Balgobin Latchman had something that the others didn’t have.“You had to have a ‘high’ voice to carry a good Qawwali, and that’s what I had above them,” he boasts.Qawwalis are generally performed in a call-and-answer style with a lead singer and a chorus, and the playing of instruments like the harmonium and the accordion. The general composition of the lyrics and music is meant to put listeners in a trance-like state so they could recognize their relationship with God.“Qaul” is an “utterance (of the prophet)” and a Qawwal is someone who often repeats (sings) a Qaul. Therefore, Qawwali is what a Qawwal sings.Balgobin Quawall receives a blessing from Swami Aksharananda upon accepting the Nirvana Humanitarian Award. However, Qawwalis are not always religious in nature, and some of the most beautiful Qawwalis are in fact odes to love.It was broadcaster Hamid who recognized that Balgobin Latchman could carve his own niche and become a hit by just singing Qawwalis and so he gave him his last name, spelt ‘Quawall.”That was decades ago when he, the now named Balgobin Quawall, recognized that he could make something of a career in music, and he had just the right background.And wait till you hear that he doesn’t even to this day understand the language of Qawwalis!‘MUSICAL FAMILY’As he describes it, Quawall, came from a “Musical family.” His maternal and paternal grandparents were from India,Authentic Jerseys From China, but he never knew them. They had passed away before he made his entry on Mother Earth.He was born at 22 Fourth Street, Kingston, now Wight’s Lane (where the Prime Minister’s office is located) to parents Jaikarran and Ramrattie Balgobin.He attended the Kingston Methodist School to the “sixth standard” and decided to get into music to make a living.His father was a musician, and so Quawall figures his love for music developed from there. As a young boy, while still in school, he recalls going from “house to house” singing and playing musical instruments. “House to house” meant going to the homes of family and friends on religious holidays like Phagwah and Diwali and at houses of the dead.In fact, it was at one of these ‘wake houses” that Quawall would find his groundings in a musical career that sees him still singing today, although not on the massive stages he at one time found himself.At one of the “wake houses” his father was invited to play at,Cheap Adidas Shoes China, the young Quawall was noticed by Gobin Ram, who was by then already an accomplished musician, singing on the radio and travelling to various venues performing.Ram invited Quawall to join him and a few others who were trying to form a musical group. Quawall agreed and set about a remarkable career with the group later known as the “Gemini Orchestra.”But singing with the orchestra was not the only gigs Quawall participated in. He knew his voice was a force to be reckoned with and he decided to test that by participating in numerous competitions, including those on the radio, and also at hugely popular competitive events put on by the Maha Sabha.He remembers memorable performances he had done at the East Indian Cricket Association Ground, now Everest Cricket Club, in the early days.It goes without saying that Quawall won many of those competitions, and he is especially proud of having one competition when he covered the voice of legendary Indian playback singer Mohamed Rafi.His Qawwali vo