March 22nd, 2010

The Noori boys are everywhere now! Recently Ali Hamza has gotten hitched in Lahore and as the band was making its way to record coke studios in Karachi, the boys turned on their laptops and made a video blog. It makes them the first Pakistani band to ever make a video from thousands of feet above.

Check it out!

“Bollywood has place for artistes from across the world, then why point figure at artistes from one particular country?”

He comes from the seventh generation of the Patiala Gharana, started singing at the age of four and has been fondly named ‘Rock Star Ustad’ by music composer Salim Merchant. Still, singer Shafqat Amanat Ali insists that he has a lot to do in life and make a lot of dreams come true.

“There is no one who does not dream. We are all dreamers and the one who stops dreaming does not live. I don’t dream the unachievable, but yes, I do dream,” says Shafqat…

Catching up with Zeb and Haniya is a rather taxing effort. Two very unassuming young women, and incredibly humble musicians, they prefer to let their work speak for themselves rather than personally take on the task of extolling themselves to the media. As interesting, engaging and forthright as they are in a personal rendezvous, speaking frankly on a wide spectrum of subjects from graduate schools, family, politics, society and music, the slight appearance of a much contemptible dicataphone or recorder is enough to render them instantly quiet.

It’s a Jekyll and Hyde situation but not that grave. A side that friends, family and acquaintances…