Abdullah Siddiqui (; born 5 August 2000) is a Pakistani singer, songwriter, and producer associated with

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music. He made his breakthrough appearance on ''Nescafé Basement season 5'' with his song "Resistance", and followed it up by making his album debut with ''Metannoya'' in 2019. He further released three albums, namely ''Heterotopia'' (2020), ''dead Beat poets'' (2021) and ''dead Beats poets: side B'' (2021). In January 2022, he was announced as an associate producer of ''Coke Studio season 14''. This made him the series' youngest ever associate producer. The same month, he produced the

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anthem " Agay Dekh".

Life and career

2000–2017: Early life and career beginnings

Siddiqui was born in

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family. By the age of 11, he had learned to play the guitar. He began producing and releasing English language electronic music on his

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account as an independent artist when he was 16. In 2016, he performed a half-hour long set at the Lahore Music Meet. Around that time, his single "Telescope Heart" gained nationwide airplay on CityFM89. He then worked with independent platforms Forever South and True Brew Records. On the former, he released "Fiction" in December 2017 and "Warm & Unredeemed" with in January 2018.

2018–2020: ''Nescafé Basement'' and nominations

He released his original song "Resistance" in 2018, for which he picked up a nomination in the Best Emerging Talent (Music) category at the 17th Lux Style Awards. The song was also featured on season 5 of ''Nescafé Basement''. He sang

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's anthem for

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titled "Kingdom" along with Altamash Sever. In 2021, he was included in the ''

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'' list of 30 Under 30 - Asia - Entertainment & Sports. On 25 December 2020, Siddiqui released "Be Myself" with singer

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. The track also featured on his second album, ''Heterotopia.''

2022–present: ''Coke Studio'' and Pakistan Super League

On 5 January 2022, Siddiqui announced via his

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account that he would be an associate producer on season 14 of '' Coke Studio''. On 13 January 2022, it was announced that he would be writing and producing the

anthem featuring vocals by

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. The anthem, named " Agay Dekh" was released on 24 January 2022 to a mixed reception. Siddiqui was also involved with the film score of the 2022 Pakistani film, ''Joyland'', which had its

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at the 75th Cannes Film Festival. He was planning to release another album in 2022. In 2024, he collaborated on Peshawar Zalmi's anthem "Zalmi Yama". The next year, he produced the official song for the

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, titled "Jeeto Baazi Khel Ke".

References

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