The History of Pakistani Pop Music
By Salman Siddique
salman@pakium.com
Pakistani Pop music has always been something which attracts because it is a wonderful mixture of beautiful genre of music which include Classical music,and western versions of 
Jazz,Rock and Roll,Hip Hop, and Disco. It all started by Ahmad Rushdi’s “KO KO KORINA” in 1966.Then came Nazia Hasan with her brother Zohaib Hasan who took the infant industry to sky-high levels. You can easily find fans of Nazia Jee and Zohaib any where , even at a market place. After them the “Pop Flag” was hoisted by Vital Signs, Strings, and Junoon. By their efforts “OUR” music soon spread in our country as well as got a reputation in neighbouring countries and ultimately South Asia.Vital Signs’ soft songs, Junoon’s Sufism and String’s freshness is still being praised by music lovers.
(Apart from that,Pakistani classical music has also produced worth mentioning names like Mehdi Hasan Sahab, Madam Noor Jahan and several Classical Music Gharanas) (more…)
