THE BACKGROUND:

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Nazia Hassan, Vital Signs, Junoon and Alamgir are such names who resuscitated the music industry of Pakistan with their spellbound, magical, and intoxicating music.

But now a days, since the modernization of music (the new trend of hip-hops and other kinda weird music); we trend to forget what those pioneers had in ‘it’ themselves and what made them earn so much respect in the entire world above everything else. Shockingly, though, Alamgir is the only big name whom we’ve all seem to forgotten.

His passion for bringing in and delivering music to Pakistan was ever-lasting and his enchanting music is something to remember for ages to come. He certainly emerged as one of the top-pioneers of pop-music in Pakistan.

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Hadiqa Kiyani, the most popular female singer of Pakistan, is currently busy in humanitarian work as she is looking forward to construct housing facilities for the flood victims.

After making her mark in the music industry with everlasting songs such as Dupatta, Boohey Barian, and Jaanan, Hadiqa is all set to construct approx. 150 houses in the flood affected areas of Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

“MASHALLAH [with the grace of Almighty], I have constructed 50 houses at a place called ‘Mian Esa’ which is situated right ahead of Nowshera,” said an excited-looking Hadiqa Kiyani. “And now, with the help of Army, I plan to construct approximately 150 houses in ‘Banda Ismail Shaikh’ and ‘Banda Mala Khel’ which are situated right ahead of Pabbi’.” (more…)

Heart can only be touched with love. And anyone who can touch your heart becomes a great person. Nazia Hassan was one such individual. She was born to Mr. Basir Hassan and Mrs. Munizeh Basir on 3^rd April 1965. During her teenage years, she showed interest in singing and immediately started stealing the hearts of people with her mesmerizing voice and charming personality. Success began to follow her at the age of just fifteen when she provided vocals for the song Aap Jaisa Koi for Feroz Khan’s movie Qurbani – a movie that later went on to became the biggest hit of the 1980 year. Her song Aap Jaisa Koi gained her fans not only in Pakistan but across the globe as well, and she was also awarded the glorious Filmfare award for it.

Nazia Hassan started her pop-singing career with albums such as Disco Deewane, Young Tarang, Hotline, and Camera Camera. She died of lung cancer on 13^th August 2000 at the age of 35. It’s been 10 years since we lost this legendary person but it still seems unreal after listening to her soothing voice. We – the PakiUM staff – pay tribute to the beautiful and graceful queen of disco, Nazia Hassan.

1. The beginning and impact-full ‘Aap Jaisa Koi’ (more…)

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…)