Music

No recognition, no respect, not enough money to feed his family, still Noor Mohammad Shah sings to keep the art alive. Bought to life by a youtube video Noor now hopes for a miracle...

He refused to be just another skilled labourer working his eyesight out in penury in Srinagar’s downtown. His calling was music. Saima Bhat talks to Rashid Hafiz, the singer who kept traditional Kashmiri music...

In school, he was celebrated for his singing abilities. Later as vocal passion pitched up, Mir Saqib secured several singing competitions before a change struck and flipped his tunes and notes, reports Saima Rashid He...

For over three decades Nisar Ahmad Dar enthralled audiences with western musical in one of radio Kashmir’s most loved programme. An ardent music lover he is all set to launch his first solo album...

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...

Born with an inability to see things did not make Wali Muhammad Hajam, a destitute. Instead, he enthrals and mesmerises thousands of people with his soulful singing. Bilal Handoo reports how hordes of people...

From a thriving customer base in the US and Europe, Kashmir’s last indigenous musical instruments maker, Ghulam Muhammad Zaz, is fast slipping into oblivion. He, however, is not upset about it. A decision to...

    Shams Irfan Encouraged by the success of Haqeeqat-e-Kashmir, a musical/cultural event originally launched to counter Zubin Mehta’s concert in Srinagar, the coalition of civil societies decided to present a musical tribute to Afzal Guru, who...

Keeping his family’s tradition alive, young music maestro Abhay Rustum Sopori mesmerized local audiences with his compositions at controversial Zubin Mehta concert. Syed Asma talks to the heir apparent of Kashmir’s music family. Beethoven’s Leonore...

As Germans flew Zubin Mehta to Shalimar, it triggered a counter-concert in the heart of the city that authorities reluctantly permitted. The two concerts told two different stories of Kashmir to a cheerful and...

Nobody in Kashmir knew what Lute, a Turkish musical instrument, until two childhood friends Irfan Nabi and Bilal Ahmed, in their quest to keep traditional Kashmiri music alive explored it for local music lovers....

When everything in Kashmir virtually came to a halt with the outbreak of militancy in 1989, Mohammad Amin Lala, a music enthusiast, found time to revisit his notes and write his first book on...

Bilal Handoo Srinagar As the reams of newsprint were consumed to report and analyze the sudden “threat” received by the Valley’s only girl band making Chief Minister Omar Abdullah coming to their rescue on twitter, the...

KL Report Srinagar Noted Dogri Singer Haji Ghulam Mohammad Dansalia passed away. He was 84. A recipient of Sangeet Natak Academy Puraskar, Haji was a popular singer who had a huge listenership on the other side...

The advent of rap music in Kashmir with Roushan Ilahi’s powerful song, ‘I Protest’, has given birth to a new generation of budding and talented rappers who are using music to express the rage,...