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Pashto singer from Swat pays tribute to Urdu music legends
Releases album on Eid, hopes to enter stage of music at national level
PESHAWAR: Pashto singer from Swat Nazia Iqbal will launch her new music album which unlike the ones released in the past has Urdu songs.
Shooting videos for her new album on an ornate stage in a hall at Hotel Spring Village in the city on Thursday, Iqbal told The Express Tribune that she is making remixes of famous ghazals of late legends of Urdu music and intends to pay tribute to maestros like Madam Noor Jehan, Mehedi Hasan and others.
Beyond revival: Swat’s music industry loses its sheen
Following the recording of Urdu Qawwali Tumhain Dillagi Bhool Jani Pare Gi, which Iqbal was said was a way to pay homage to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the year-old singer told The Express Tribune that her new album will be released on Eid and will be a treat for people. “This will be really different for my listeners and is made purely to express gratitude to the great musicians of all times,” she said. Iqbal added, “Unlike in the past, my album this time will have videos because that seems to be a prerequisite for music to become hit these days.”
Grievances
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PESHAWAR: The miseries of noted Pashto folksinger Gulzari alias Wagma, who had been suffering from poverty for the past eight years, have increased after the popular singer was recently diagnosed with stomach cancer.
She was born in Menai village of Swabi district and shifted to Peshawar in when she married Liaquat Ali Khan Yousafzai, a local stage shows producer and art promoter. Wagma has 2, albums to her credit and is recipient of local awards. She has represented Pakistan in China, Syria, Qatar, Dubai, Iran and Afghanistan. She earned the title of second Gulnar Begum, a top folksinger of the yore days.
Wagma shot to fame when she sang a Pashto ghazal ‘Na May Dalbari Na Daldari Okra -- Hasay May Da Jwand Sara Khwari Okra’ (Neither I became a diehard lover nor a darling /My struggle in life proved a futile exercise), according to a Dawn Newspaper report published earlier in March this year.
"My elder year-old daughter Sumbal Wagma is disabled. My husband has sold out our two houses to meet our daily expenses. We live at a two-room dingy rented home on Dalazak Road near City railway station.”
"I served the nation and portrayed a soft image of Pakistan, I was honored with awards when i did not need them but now when I need it no one comes to my aid," Gulzari
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