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List Of Pakistani Musicians
This is an alphabetical list of musicians from Pakistan. The list includes musical bands, some groups and solo artists that were and are in the industry today. The list also includes film singers, folk singers, pop/rock singers, jazz musicians, rap artists, dj, qawwal and ghazal traditional artists. Pakistani singers and bands became very popular and started to spring up during the early nineties, with pop music, pop, rock music, rock and Ghazal becoming more fashionable with the younger generations. A * A. Nayyar * Ali Zafar * Aziz Mian * Aamir Zaki * Aaroh * Abdullah Qureshi (singer), Abdullah Qureshi * Atish Raj * Abrar-ul-Haq * Abida Parveen * Adil Omar * Ahmed Ghulam Ali Chagla * Ahmed Jahanzeb * Ahmed Rushdi * Alam Lohar * Alamgir (pop singer), Alamgir * Ali Alam * Ali Azmat * Ali Baba Khan * Ali Haider (singer), Ali Haider * Allan Fakir * Atif Aslam * Alamgir (singer), Alamgir * Amjad Bobby * Amjad Farid Sabri * Annie Khalid * Arieb Azhar * Arif Lohar * Ars ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qawwal
Qawwali is a form of Sufi Islamic devotional song, devotional singing originating in the Indian subcontinent. Originally performed at Sufi shrines throughout the Indian subcontinent, it is famous throughout Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Afghanistan and has also gained mainstream popularity and an international audience as of the late 20th century. While hereditary performers continue to perform Qawwali music in traditional and devotional contexts, Qawwali has received international exposure through the work of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Aziz Mian and Sabri Brothers largely due to several releases on the Real World Records, Real World label, followed by live appearances at WOMAD festivals. Other famous Qawwali singers include Fareed Ayaz & Abu Muhammad Duo, Abdullah Manzoor Niazi, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Badar Ali Khan, Badar Miandad, Rizwan-Muazzam Duo, Qutbi Brothers, the late Amjad Sabri, Qawwal Bahauddin Qutbuddin, Najm Saif and Brothers, Aziz Naza, among others. Out of these Far ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abrar-ul-Haq
Abrar-ul-Haq () is a Pakistani singer-songwriter, philanthropist, and a politician. His debut 1995 album ''Billo De Ghar'' sold over 40.3million albums worldwide, which made him a household name and granted him the title of "King of Pakistani pop". Abrar-ul-Haq is the founder and chairman of Sahara for Life Trust, a private organization that has been providing health services to the people of Narowal and surrounding areas since 1998. He was Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's candidate for the seat of National Assembly from constituency NA-78 (Narowal-II) in the 2018 Pakistani general election. Early life and education Abrar-ul-Haq was born in Faisalabad, Punjab to a civil servant father, and is the youngest among eight siblings. He belongs to Punjabi Jat family of the Kahlon clan and his elder brother Major (r) Israr-ul-Haq Kahlon is an active politician in Narowal. He was initially educated at the Junior Model School, Gujrat later graduating from the Sir Syed College, Rawal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alamgir (singer)
Alamgir Haq (born 11 August 1955) is a Pakistani singer-songwriter, guitarist, and one of the pioneers of pop music in Pakistan. His style of singing is inspired by playback singer Ahmed Rushdi and Elvis Presley. He is known as "Elvis of the East". Early life Alamgir was born on 11 August 1955 in Rangpur, East Pakistan. His father, Farmuzal Haq, was a politician and a member of the All India Muslim League as Secretary of Treasury and later a member of Pakistan's National Assembly during the presidency of Ayub Khan. He also studied in Mirzapur Cadet College, Tangail, in the province of East Bengal. He briefly studied at Shaheen School in Dacca. In 1971 at the age of around 15, he moved to Karachi, West Pakistan to continue his studies at the University of Karachi before immigrating to the United States. He currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Career He settled in the PECHS area of Karachi and started singing in the evenings, around 1971, at a small café call ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atif Aslam
Atif Aslam (; born 12 March 1983) is a Pakistani playback singer, songwriter, composer, and actor. He has recorded many songs in both Pakistan and India, and is known for his Belting (music), vocal belting technique. Born in Wazirabad, Wazirabad, Pakistan, Atif Aslam started his music career in early 2000s. He released his first album titled "''Jal Pari (album), Jal Pari''". In 2005, he debuted in Bollywood music industry by singing a song in the Indian film, ''Zeher''. After this, he sang multiple songs in Bollywood in India and Lollywood in Pakistan. Aslam has sung for ''Coke Studio (Pakistan), Coke Studio''. He Second-language acquisition#Language dominance, predominantly sings in Hindustani language, Urdu, but also sings in his native Punjabi language, Punjabi, as well as Bengali language, Bengali, Persian language, Persian and Pashto. In 2008, he received the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz, the fourth-highest civilian honor award from the Government of Pakistan, Pakistani government. He i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Fakir
Allan Fakir or Allan Faqir (1932 – 4 July 2000) (), was a Sindhis, Sindhi folk singer from Sindh, Pakistan. He was particularly known for his ecstatic style of performance, marked with devotional rhetoric and Sufi dance-singing. Personal life and death Birth Allan Fakir was born in 1932 in the Aamari in Jamshoro District, Sindh in the cottage of Dhamaali Faqeer. He spent his childhood in Manjhand, a town between Sehwan and Hyderabad, Sindh. Community Allan Fakeer belonged to the Manganiar, Manganhar community. According to Manganhar traditions, his father used to beat the drum and sing traditional songs at weddings and other festivities. Allan also sang at Dargah, dargahs. Attachment with mother Allan’s mother left the world soon after his birth, and her untimely demise plunged him into a profound sense of solitude, prompting him to express his melancholy through sombre songs. While searching for motherly love, Allan Fakir departed from his home and arrived at the tomb of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Haider (singer)
Ali Haider (Urdu:علی حیدر, born 22 September 1967) is a Pakistani pop singer and musician. He had a number of hit songs in the 1990s, including ''Poorani Jeans'', which appears on his 1993 album ''Sandesa''. Personal life He married in 2006. After the death of his young son in 2009, Ali Haider quit making music for some time and turned to religion. Career Music He began his music career in 1988 and gained popularity in the 1990s. In 2012 he returned to mainstream music after a three-year break following the death of his son, a period during he was mainly involved in Islamic music, singing hamd and naat. Acting He became an actor in the mid-1990s, with roles in PTV dramas such as '' Tum Se Kehna Tha''. He acted in a Pakistani film, '' Chalo Ishq Larain'', released in 2002. In 2013 he returned to TV with the sitcom ''Ek aur Ek Dhai''. Fashion design He has been designing under his own clothing label ''Qarar''. Hosting Having previously hosted religious TV shows on d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Baba Khan
Ali Baba Khan (; born Ali Ul Habib, 5 March 1993) is a Pakistani Pashtun Sufi singer in the Pashto music industry. Early life and education He was born on 5 March 1993 in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Khan got his telecommunications engineering degree from the City University of Science and Information Technology in Peshawar. Singing career Khan sings in the Pashto language started formally in 2013. He performed at an international Sufi concert in Afghanistan. He paid tribute to the Sufi poet Rahman Baba in his video entitled "Malang Abdur Rahman". He sold the gun for his first video. At the start, he was not allowed from his family to proceed with his music career, but later they accepted his efforts for Pashto music. In the grand event at Baacha Khan Trust with the eve of Re-Singing Ghani Khan, Ali Baba Khan performed with live band and got praised from audience very much. Ali Baba Khan was the first to sing a celebrated poem of Ghani Khan ''Za yaw mast shan lewanto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Azmat
Ali Azmat Pacha (born 20 April 1966) is a Pakistani singer-songwriter, musician and actor. He is best known as the lead singer for the influential Sufi rock band Junoon and for his subsequent solo career later followed by a career as an actor as well. In 2001, with Junoon, he became part of the first Pakistani band ever to perform at the United Nations General Assembly. Early life and education Ali Azmat Pacha was born in Havelian, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, into a family of ethnic Kashmiri descent, where his grandfather was posted as station master of Havelian railway station. He grew up in Garhi Shahu, Lahore and speaks Punjabi as his native language. His father Nazir Ahmed Butt was a middle-class businessman who died in 2013. Azmat went to Sydney, Australia, for his higher studies but due to financial problems, soon returned to Pakistan before completing his university degree. His first band Jupiters was known for performing covers at small gigs in Lahore. Music car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Alam
Ali Alam () is a Pakistani underground musician based in Karachi. An architect by profession, he graduated from Indus Valley School, Karachi. Biography Birth Ali was born on September 11, 1977. According to sources, there was no electricity in the entire city of Lahore that night; as such, Ali was born with lanterns placed in the maternity ward. Childhood Ali comes from a family involved with showbiz. His cousin, Bilal Maqsood, son of veteran comedian and writer Anwer Maqsood, was a frequent visitor at the residential apartment complex where Ali resided for most of his childhood and teen years. Ali was famed for having the largest collection of music cassettes in the entire neighborhood. He was strumming the guitar very early on in his life. Many joked that Ali was taking after Bilal, the latter being a successful guitar lead for the popular band Strings and a student at Indus Valley School of Art in the 1990s. Ganda Banda and the 3 Dead Cats 'Ganda Banda & the 3 Dead Cats' wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alamgir (pop Singer)
Alamgir Haq (born 11 August 1955) is a Pakistani singer-songwriter, guitarist, and one of the pioneers of pop music in Pakistan. His style of singing is inspired by playback singer Ahmed Rushdi and Elvis Presley. He is known as "Elvis of the East". Early life Alamgir was born on 11 August 1955 in Rangpur, East Pakistan. His father, Farmuzal Haq, was a politician and a member of the All India Muslim League as Secretary of Treasury and later a member of Pakistan's National Assembly during the presidency of Ayub Khan. He also studied in Mirzapur Cadet College, Tangail, in the province of East Bengal. He briefly studied at Shaheen School in Dacca. In 1971 at the age of around 15, he moved to Karachi, West Pakistan to continue his studies at the University of Karachi before immigrating to the United States. He currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Career He settled in the PECHS area of Karachi and started singing in the evenings, around 1971, at a small café ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alam Lohar
Alam Lohar () was a Pakistani Punjabi folk music singer. He is widely regarded as the greatest singer of Punjabi folk music. He is credited with creating and popularising the musical term Jugni. Early life Alam Lohar was born in 1928 in Achh, near Kotla Arab Ali Khan, Gujrat District of Punjab, British India. He was born into a Punjabi Muslim family of Lohars (blacksmiths). As a child, Lohar read ''Sufiana Kalaam'', a collection of Punjabi stories and poetry and started singing from a childhood age. Career Alam Lohar modified a new style of singing the Punjabi Vaar, an epic or folk tale which made him popular when he toured villages and towns in the Punjab region. He is famous for his rendition of Waris Shah's ''Heer'' along with other songs such as Saif ul Maluk. He recorded his first album at the age of 13 and throughout his career he accomplished 15 Gold Disc LP's (record sales) for the following with mainly EMI/ His Master's Voice Pakistan and other regional co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmed Rushdi
Ahmed Rushdi (; 24 April 1934 – 11 April 1983) was a versatile Pakistani playback singer and was "an important contributor to the Cinema of Pakistan#The Golden Era (1959–1977), golden age of Pakistani film music". Regarded as one of the greatest singers in South Asia who could sing high tenor notes with ease, he is best known for his versatility and distinctive voice, with complex and dark emotional expressions. Considered the first pop singer of South Asia, he sang South Asia's first Pop music, pop song, "Ko Ko Korina", in the 1966 film ''Armaan (1966 film), Armaan''. Born in Hyderabad Deccan, he migrated to Pakistan following Partition of India, Indian partition. In 1954, he recorded the official Qaumi Taranah, National Anthem of Pakistan with several other singers. Rushdi has recorded the highest number of film songs in the history of Pakistani cinema in Urdu, English language, English, Punjabi language, Punjabi, Bengali language, Bengali, Sindhi language, Sindhi, and G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
