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Ali Sethi blends traditional South Asian melodies with global beats, fusing traditional qawwali, ghazals, and modern influences. The New York-based artist’s 2022 single “Pasoori” with Shae Gill topped Spotify’s Global Viral chart and was declared Google’s most hum-to-search song of the year. Mixing a traditional raga with reggaeton into what Sethi calls “ragaton,” “Pasoori” carries a message love and joy that crosses cultural boundaries and musical styles. Sethi followed that hit up with his 2023 Intiha, a collaboration with Nicolás Jaar that Pitchfork praised for its songs “rooted in classic Sufi poetry with electronic abstraction [that] blur lines between cultures and eras in a moving tribute to the multiplicity of identity.”

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Ali Sethi

The John Anson Ford Theatre

Ali Sethi (Opens in a new window)creates music that is a rich fusion of traditional qawwali, ghazals, and modern influences. The New York City-based Pakistani artist blends traditional South Asian melodies with global beats, drawing on folk and woke iconographies to tell powerful tales of identity. Sethi is best known for his single “Pasoori,” which topped Spotify's Viral 50 - Global chart and was declared Google's most hummed-to-search song of 2022. He was named to Time magazine’s TIME100 Next list in 2022. The New Yorker called Sethi's work “stealthily subversive." His music is praised for showing that "differences of culture, language, religion, and gender do not need to be antagonistic; they can, and always have, enriched us and given us some of our greatest works of art."—Time

Berklee College of Music

New York City-based Pakistani artist Ali Sethi creates music that is a rich fusion of traditional South Asian melodies and global beats. His music is praised for showing that “differences of culture, language, religion, and gender do not need to be antagonistic; they can, and always have, enriched us and given us some of our greatest works of art”.

Kennedy Center

Ali Sethi creates music that is a rich fusion of traditional qawwali, ghazals, and modern influences. The New York City-based Pakistani artist blends traditional South Asian melodies with global beats, drawing on folk and woke iconographies to tell powerful tales of identity. Sethi is best known for his single “Pasoori,” which topped Spotify's Viral 50 - Global chart and was declared Google's most hummed-to-search song of 2022. He was named to Time magazine’s TIME100 Next list in 2022. The New Yorker called Sethi's work “stealthily subversive." His music is praised for showing that "differences of culture, language, religion, and gender do not need to be antagonistic; they can, and always have, enriched us and given us some of our greatest works of art."

Ali Sethi’s genre-bending music integrates elements of ancient and traditional art forms like ghazal into his modern sound. Sethi’s “ragaton” single “Pasoori” climbed to the top of Spotify’s Global Viral chart in 2022, earning him a spot on Coachella’s 2023 line up. Sethi’s ability to illuminate how differences in culture and gender enrich humanity landed him on Time magazine’s Next 100 List.

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Oct 8, 2025

Ali Sethi · The Ford

Sep 30, 2025

Ali Sethi · Berklee College of Music

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