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I was born in Pakistan, actually all the way up in Kharian and came to Karachi when I was two or three. My mother was born here, while my father came over with his family from India in the late 1940s. That is my family history in brief!
I studied here all the way up to my A’ levels and then on a stroke of good fortune, I received a scholarship at Hamilton College in upstate New York where I spent the next four years for my education. After working in New York for a year, I returned to Pakistan to reconnect with family and find my calling.
I don’t know how much anyone gets into singing as much as it takes over them! My mother, for as long as I can remember, sang with a guitar in her hands. Family picnics and social gatherings were always full of people singing. My best childhood friend Sana and I would spend evening after evening learning songs and then performing them in the front lawn to an audience of stuffed toys.
It was when I first picked up the guitar and found an interest in song writing, that I began to take singing more seriously. I had a few brushes here and there with some recordings and concerts, and only really began to look at music as a career in the last two years.
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For my English songs, I do write my own lyrics. My mother has contributed to a couple of songs because she has a gift when it comes to words and creating imagery in her writing. I am currently working on collaborating with various lyricists to write some Urdu songs. I’m looking to release these songs as singles in the next three or four months.
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It’s getting better. There are more shows, and people are beginning to take it more seriously. I think as long as musicians and singers stay true to their music and passion, rather than to the superficial aspects of fame and fortune, things can only move forward.
Not really.
You can never stop learning, and there is always room for improvement.
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