After 40 years of singing countless folk songs, holding the world record for the highest number of audio albums ever released by a singer, and belting out award-winning anthems in five different languages all over Pakistan and the world, Ataullah Khan Essa khelvi still maintains that all of this was never his intention. “I didn’t yearn to become a professional singer,” he says, “I was simply compelled to sing. It was a passion.” This year Esakhelvi brings that passion to Coke Studio.
Watch Ataullah Khan’s romantic folk song ‘Pyar Naal’ in Coke Studio:
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