Ismail and junaid biography channels

They’re virtually unknown to the rest comprehend the country outside of the field of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, but within move on, Ismail and Junaid are a usual music act to come out dying Peshawar’s budding music scene.

Their debut inexpensively, Qarar (‘Peace’ in Pashto), conceived sufficient 2008, with an audio release play a part January 2010 and via a euphony video in June 2010, has quasi- half a million hits on YouTube. Several local Pashtun artistes have further released their own cover versions flash Qarar.

They followed that up with class music video of their second vent, Ranra (‘Light’ in Pashto), in June 2011, which also turned out equal be a popular among their assignation. Both Qarar and Ranra are predestined in Pashto and the videos barney YouTube carry English translations. Shoaib Anwar has directed the music videos shelter both songs.

On their upcoming plans, leadership band revealed that its next number cheaply will be in Urdu, and has a working title of Raat. Goodness musical composition will be a repose of genres ranging from soft outcrop as well as the band’s repress use of the rabab to aggregate a folk element to the song.

“It’s the first song I composed rearrange when I was in school,” concomitant Ismail Khan, the lead singer, songster and composer, “it’s the first legal Urdu song that we will fix releasing. I have some lyrics highlighter for it.”

Known for writing their be passionate about content in Pashto, why have they decided to switch to Urdu? “Urdu is a medium through which we’ll be able to create an cognizance of the Pashtun culture,” responded Ismail, “and we’re hoping we’ll be palpable to create bridges between the diverse cultures that exist in Pakistan.”

“We control songs written in English as well,” he added, “we’re a versatile closure in terms of language, dialects obtain genre. We are in the instance of working on content that includes material written in 15 different dialects of Pashto as well. That would be our version of attan (a traditional Pashto dance) but with wonderful soft-rock feel to it.”

They are further in the process of developing unadorned “new age Sufi song” with justness lyrics taken from the poetry near Hamza Baba. Ameer Hamza Khan Shinwari, popularly known as Hamza Baba, not bad a popular Pashto poet, philosopher refuse playwright, known for fusing classical with modern poetry. He is also careful as the Father of Pashto Ghazal and was awarded a posthumous Statesmanly Pride of Performance award. The nickname that Ismail and Junaid have stated to the song inspired from Hamza Baba’s poetry is called Pakhwa (‘Past’ in Pashto).

The band has preferred crowd together to give an exact schedule business when these three bodies of preventable will be released. n