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"Zaroori Tha" by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan is the most-viewed Pakistani video on YouTube. It is also the first Pakistani video to reach 1 billion views. On the American video-sharing website YouTube, "Tajdar-e-Haram" sung by Atif Aslam became first Pakistani music video to cross 100 million views.
Alamgir Haq (born 11 August 1955) is a Pakistani singer-songwriter, guitarist, and one of the pioneers of pop music in Pakistan. His style of singing is inspired by playback singer Ahmed Rushdi and Elvis Presley. He is known as "Elvis of the East".
Shehzad Roy was born in Karachi on 16 February 1977 to Kabir Roy and Nazli Qamar in a Gujarati family. [citation needed][6] His father was a businessman.Shehzad Roy said in an interview to a major Pakistani newspaper that his father always encouraged him to do whatever he had his heart set on because his father wanted to play cricket in his childhood, but was not allowed to do so by his own ...
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan is a Pakistani singer, who has sung several songs in Pakistan and India, including the Pakistani film and drama industries, as well as Coke Studio and Bollywood. He is a well-known Qawwali singer, and has also sung many national songs and ghazals.
While still studying at Lahore University of Management Sciences, Bilal Khan released a song called "Bachana" that was released on YouTube. The song was later played on different music video channels in Pakistan in particular MTV. This earned him Best Singer of 2010 and Best Song of 2010 voted by the Pakistan FM 103. [4]
Yasir Jaswal started his career as a musician in around 2003, later he joined the Islamabad-based rock band Irtaash. [2] The band was founded in November 2001 and released its first album Kala Safaid Aasman consisting of eleven rock songs in May 2011, produced by Sarmad Abdul Ghafoor at the SnM Studios. [3]
Pakistani popular music or shortly Pak-pop music refers to popular music forms in Pakistan. Pakistani pop is a mixture of traditional Pakistani classical music and western influences of jazz , rock and roll , hip hop and disco sung in various languages of Pakistan , including Urdu .
After completion of his Master's degree in 2001, he released his first album "Bibisherinay" – it was a selection of folk songs in Pushto and later he released Urdu versions of the album. He has also sung an official anthem for the Peshawar Zalmi named "Zalmi Tarana" or "O Da Pekhawar Zalmi.