Music

Despite a difficult childhood and lifelong disability Riyaz A Wani established himself as a professional singer. But then everything seemed out-of-sync as he had a change of heart. Zubair Sofi tells his story For Riyaz...

Fighting a protracted battle at home to choose music as a career, Iqbal Shah finally started making and playing the instruments. Three years later, he has trained 50 others in Sufi recitals and is...

An uncle and a nephew could be the last makers of Sarangi and Swarnai, the two key musical instruments of Kashmir music. There is no demand and there are no takers for the art...

Syed Sahahzad Asim chose music over medicine and became a successful musician. His family that had opposed his career choice is now proud of his accomplishments, Aliya Bashir reports.When Shahzad was selected for a...

A Ladishah artist and a singer, both students, make a splash on Kashmir’s social media and outside the region as well. Syed Samreen meets the new faces with new voices who are determined to walk...

The down spiral of Kashmir’s centuries old folk art Bhaand-e-Paether is often attributed to the turmoil in Kashmir; however, the ‘other’ factors pounding it down have conveniently been ignored along the way. Suhail A...

Mixing modern melody with prose and poetry, Kashmir’s new-age singers and musicians have resurrected folk songs in a different way. Creating their own platforms, this new breed of artists is reaching out to audiences...

Deep into north Kashmir, Faheem Mir meet a small community that sings and lives on folk music but is facing a tense situation in the last few years It was a gloomy winter day witnessing...

Born visually impaired, Yasir picked the art of music and is now an established singer, reports Mariah Shah In the last few years, Yasir Noorani has gained a lot of attention and appreciation. A specially-abled...

Comic content creator Musaib Bhat’s latest peppy number exposes the claims that people and the system make within and about the City of Kashmir, the Shehr-e-Khas, writes Khalid Bashir Gura Comedy contours in Kashmir are...

As strife created gulf for expression for pain and despair, the feeble movement of turmoil art took over. Soon the internet as the vast and democratic space became a natural landscape to the new...

by Tahir Bhat Kashmir’s most known Santoor maestro, Bhajan Sopori died on June 2, 2022, after a protracted illness. He had cancer in the colon. His death was the outcome of multi-organ failure. The 73-year-old...

A faith healers son, Kabul Bukhari did his primary schooling in Karnah and then in Srinagar. He finally flew to Mumbai for studies and reconnected with Kashmir through YouTube as one of the few...

An artist’s song went viral because everyone hated it. Welcome to the world of cringe choices, writes Raashid Andrabi while listing the top Kashmiri music content that people consumed online in 2022 On August 5,...

A post graduate in environmental science recorded a Kashmiri song. Watching it emerge as a smash hit on the web, Adil Gurezi jumped into the musical eco-system and is counting his numbers, reports Umar...