Articles tagged with: Pop
Entertainment, Interviews »
Currently the biggest band in Pakistani pop Faisal and Bilal – the band duo – at churning out good music.
That’s what the music of the Pakistani band Strings is all about
Currently the biggest band in Pakistani pop, Strings has had a tumultuous history of disbanding and then reuniting. What hasn’t changed is the consistency of Faisal and Bilal — the band duo — at churning out good music.
“Music happened as a hobby, not a profession. We first met in college in Karachi. After producing two successful albums, we disbanded to …
Entertainment, Interviews »
From being heralded as Asia’s biggest rock act that redefined Sufi rock, Junoon has come a long way. The band that was applauded by U2′s Bono for their efforts at propagating world peace, is finally taking a break, what with all its members concentrating on their solo careers.
“The band has not split, but yes, we are concentrating on our solo careers,” is how Ali Azmat, the radical vocalist of Junoon, sums up the situation. “Brian left the band last year and is back in the US of A now. We …
Entertainment, Interviews »
Q: Tell us a bit about yourself, your date of birth, childhood and siblings?
My name is Shahzad Haroon, I was born in Hyderabad, Sindh on December 14th, 1973. I have a sister who currently lives in Kuwait. I have spent most of my early childhood in Iran, moved back to Karachi, when I was five. I had most of my education done in Karachi. After completing high school, I moved to Chicago for further studies. I completed my under-graduate studies in Electrical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology and graduate …
Events »
A Live concert of “STRINGS” new album “DHANI” is being launched by Bridge Company. They are also introducing “AAROH” in Karachi at Bahria Auditirium Karsaz on 20th September at 9 pm.
Tickets are available at following places:
Agha’s super market Clifton
KayBees Snacks, M.A. Housing Society.
Veer, Kurta Gali, Tariq Road–
Jumbo, opp Masjid Bait-ul-Mukarram, Gulshan-e-Iqbal
Continental Bakers, Gulistan-e-Johar–
IHS Cyber Cafe , Hussainabad Near Mano ice cream F.B.Area
Entertainment »
Sajjad is coming back in music scene with new album shortly. His album is in final stages. You can watch one of his new video from upcoming album these days on music tv channels. So all you Sajjad Ali fans keep watching for this new album which will be in market soon.
Entertainment, Interviews »
Hoooo… Channo ki aankh mein ik nasha hai. I thought I heard someone sing…dang, you hear it too, don’t you?
Resonating throughout Pakistan, USA, UK, and all around the world for that matter, the sudden Channo-mania has caused quite a hullabaloo, uproar, and frenzy. The man behind the mania, whose voice is often compared to Kishore Kumar’s, is none other than, painter/model/singer, Monsieur Ali Zafar.
We had a chance to meet up with Ali Zafar, who was in Karachi for a couple of days. Sammy kept singing, Ke huqqa paani…
“Arg! It’s stuck …
Entertainment »
It came like a bolt from the blue. Aaroh, one of the nation’s hottest bands has, for all intensive purposes, disintegrated. Apparently, founding members Kami and Nabeel have decided to carry on with the Aaroh name while lead vocalist Farook and Khaled have
parted ways with the alternative rock-pop outfit.
Naturally, both sides had different tales to tell, while Kami claiming “artisitc differences” as one of the main reasons behind the fissure, Farook insists that he and Khaled were kept in the dark about the band’s projects, including the signing of record …
Entertainment, Events »
Cultural camaraderie between India and Pakistan hits a new high on Friday with virtuoso singers from both countries set to enthrall a packed audience at the MTV Immies in Mumbai.
Versatile singer Hariharan teams up with the Karachi-based rock group Strings to keep the crowd tapping while Shaan joins up with the Pakistan band Fuzon. Sukhbir and the music duo Josh will also participate.
Hariharan’s teaming up with Strings and Shaan’s with Fuzon will be the highlights of the Tata Indicom MTV Immies 2004.
Hariharan is well known for his soulful ghazals, bhajans …
Fashion »
For a quiet man, Asim Reza has a lot to say. His work speaks for him, whether in the mythical setting of an advertisement or in the documentation of a dancer’s synchronized footwork. The quest for artistic greatness influences his life and though he doesn’t blow the trumpet on his own work, it shouts for itself. But when credits are mismatched and his achievements ignored, Asim becomes verbose. He turns away from his creative pursuit very briefly, and lodges his displeasure in minimum words, careful not to contaminate his creativity …
Entertainment »
When the late legendary qawwali master Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan first sang in the United States, his concerts weren’t so different from those he performed in his native Pakistan.
With ecstatic and hypnotic improvised songs based in the ancient poetry of Sufism, the mystic tradition of Islam, Khan electrified audiences for up to five hours. He died in 1997 at the age of 49.
“We had to start cutting performances shorter for people who don’t understand the languages of the music (Farsi, Urdu and Punjabi),” said Rachid Din, who was Khan’s manager …
