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“Thy will be done. Thy will be done. I don’t know. Please, I don’t know.” -Jessica Ripper
Jessica Ripper is a white American with blonde hair, blue eyes and a home in Northern California. Yet, to many in Pakistan, she’s an Islamic-gospel musician who plays the tabla.
In the 700-year-old sufi-singing tradition of Qawwali, she’s a female trailblazer shattering century-old glass ceilings from sufi shrine to sufi shrine. And everywhere else, she’s a statistical anomaly, a bizarre outlier.
Did fate direct Ripper to her path as one of the world’s only white female western qawwali players? Or was it chance and opportunity?
You be the judge.
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“Thy will be done. Thy will be done. I don’t know. Please, I don’t know.” -Jessica Ripper
Jessica Ripper is a white American with blonde hair, blue eyes and a home in Northern California. Yet, to many in Pakistan, she’s an Islamic-gospel musician who plays the tabla.
In the 700-year-old sufi-singing tradition of Qawwali, she’s a female trailblazer shattering century-old glass ceilings from sufi shrine to sufi shrine. And everywhere else, she’s a statistical anomaly, a bizarre outlier.
Did fate direct Ripper to her path as one of the world’s only white female western qawwali players? Or was it chance and opportunity?
You be the judge.
Show Notes: