Sanam Marvi has been into Pakistani Sufi Music scene for quite long time. Born in Hyderabad and grew up in an interior city of Sindh, Dadu, she has made her quite good name in the music industry and has performed at various musical platforms. She has also toured foreign countries to represent classical and Sufi Music and one notable performance by Marvi was in Dubai recently at World Music Festival. But, she got real fame and recognition at mainstream level after she appeared in Coke Studio Season3 and then this year’s Coke Studio Season4.

The latest from her side is, she has signed a contract with some US music producers who will soon be sending her their compositions to add her vocals into it. (more…)

*NOTE: This post is the predecessor of Revisiting Coke Studio Season One and Revisiting Coke Studio Seaon Two.*

Disclaimer: This series only highlights the performances that are given in the previous Coke Studio seasons, it is CERTAINLY NOT a TOP 10 LIST or the best of the best produced by PakiUM. PakiUM may or may not agree with the order of songs reviewed in this post.

As of today, Coke Studio has aired three successful seasons, and today we are going to take you back to the third and the last year season:

Coke Studio – Season Three:

The third installment of Coke Studio was aired in between the summers of June and August 2010. Five episodes were aired in the third season and they were entitled Reason, Will, Conception, Form and Realisation. It mainly focused on the Sufism and the artists that performed in this season are: (more…)

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Soz-e-Ishq – Abida Parveen

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By Salman Siddiqui

salman@pakium.com

HOWDY readers…..

I was just wondering what should I be writing about next which could reflect the general interest level of present music scene and i came up with a brilliant idea.Lets talk about the prestigious Coke Studio. Well as many of you people might not know that our beloved Coke Studio has a Gigantic line up, its Big. Here, have a look :

Asad Ahmad (Guitar), Babar Khanna (Percussion), Jaffer Zaidi (Keyboards), Javed Iqbal (Violin), Kamran ‘Mannu’ Zafar (Bass), Louis ‘Gumby’ Pinto (Drums), Natasha De Sousa (Vocals), Omran ‘Momo’ Shafique (Guitar), Saba Shabbir (Vocals), Sikander Inam (Dholak), Waris ‘Baloo’ Ali (Percussion), Zulfiq ‘Shazee’ Ahmed Khan (Percussion). Guest Artists include: Baqir Abbas (Flute), Gul Mohammad (Sarangi), Gurpreet Chana (Tabla), Rakae Jamil (Sitar), and Sadiq Sameer (Rubab).

To add up a little, I will like to share that these people ( in the Line-up ) are very much talented. Some of them like Babar Khanna,Jaffer Zaidi,Javed Iqbal,Louis ‘Gumby’ Pinto, and Omran ‘Momo’ Shafique are like Veterans at their work.(sorry if I omitted worth mentioning names) (more…)

Mirza Sahibaan, Arif Lohar

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Tina Sani & Arieb Azhar — Mori Araj Suno [ Download Audio ] [ Download Video ]

Meesha Shafi — Chori Chori [ Download Audio ] [ Download Video ]

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Aunty Disco Project – Sultanat [ Download Audio ] [ Download Video ]

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