Mixing modern melody with prose and poetry, Kashmir’s new-age singers and musicians have resurrected folk songs in a different way.…
Waqar Khan and Ishfaq Kawa’s songs on Youtube have fetched them millions of views. Their emergence in Kashmir’s cultural space…
Singing might have been a simple exercise at some point in time. Not anymore. A city singer had to struggle…
A Ladishah artist and a singer, both students, make a splash on Kashmir’s social media and outside the region as…
An uncle and a nephew could be the last makers of Sarangi and Swarnai, the two key musical instruments of…
Five young girls picked up the art of playing intricate musical instruments with a serious bid to revive Kashmir’s fading…
A post graduate in environmental science recorded a Kashmiri song. Watching it emerge as a smash hit on the web,…
A faith healers son, Kabul Bukhari did his primary schooling in Karnah and then in Srinagar. He finally flew to…
Ahmad Najeeb meets a Sopore boy who raps for the social cause and has vowed not to make money from…
Two years after his affluent parents sent him to Jammu for better education, they got the surprise that their son…
As strife created gulf for expression for pain and despair, the feeble movement of turmoil art took over. Soon the…
Fighting a protracted battle at home to choose music as a career, Iqbal Shah finally started making and playing the…
Despite a difficult childhood and lifelong disability Riyaz A Wani established himself as a professional singer. But then everything seemed…
No recognition, no respect, not enough money to feed his family, still Noor Mohammad Shah sings to keep the art…
He refused to be just another skilled labourer working his eyesight out in penury in Srinagar’s downtown. His calling was…
