So, I’m seeing an upswing of Pushto being incorporated into modern rock. A bunch of groups and singers out that are popular: Rahim Shah, Zeb and Haniya, and Sajid and Zeeshan (what happened to those guys??)
Down to even mainstream artists are bringing the Pashto back…like Hadiqa Kiani.
Punjabi we all know is in every other song, otherwise these artists don’t survive. Who survives in Pakistan without Punjabi something or the other these days?
But what about other languages? Sindhi comes to my mind, I think that incorporating sindhi language into popular mainstream music may not be that bad of an idea. It is a very pretty language. Seraiki is something Shazia Khushk uses a lot and her songs are beautiful. I doubt it would ever happen but memoni is a really fun language - and I dont see that ever being used in a song either. Plenty of these minority langauges - and Pakistan has about over a hundred of them, could do well to be used in song. Why not? It’s part of our culture isn’t it?
Re: Sindhi and Other Minority languages in Mainstream Music
Pashto is the next big thing...rahim shah has been working on making it mainstream for a while then zeb and haniya came up and got listeners interested and then hadiqa janan hit airways and that song is the biggest song of 09/10 its the only pashto video to get a million views and its hadiqas only video to get that many views
And look at fashion these days all the designers are doing a lot of pashto inspired dresses.....look at hadiqa these days wearing only pashto dresses in interviews and award shows
Pashtun culture is the new "black" lmao
Re: Sindhi and Other Minority languages in Mainstream Music
Pashto is the next big thing...rahim shah has been working on making it mainstream for a while then zeb and haniya came up and got listeners interested and then hadiqa janan hit airways and that song is the biggest song of 09/10 its the only pashto video to get a million views and its hadiqas only video to get that many views
And look at fashion these days all the designers are doing a lot of pashto inspired dresses.....look at hadiqa these days wearing only pashto dresses in interviews and award shows
Pashtun culture is the new "black" lmao
Re: Sindhi and Other Minority languages in Mainstream Music
Punjabi is similar to Urdu so its easy to fuse the two, and its something that a lot of Pakistanis can relate so the market is sizable -- hence lots of Punjabi in music. Sindhi I'm sure is pretty similar too and I'm certain Sindhi artistes can come up with some interesting stuff that would grab mainstream attention. As far as Pashto is concerned, Fakhir did a pretty cool fusion with his "Lak Lak" number on Mantra. I thought it was awesome and then Hadiqa is doing Janan. Seraiki has made it into mainstream music, I can't remember a specific example though. I'd like to hear some Baluchi or Brahui too.
Re: Sindhi and Other Minority languages in Mainstream Music
^very true about punjabi being similar to urdu
but now a days everything is punjabi and although sindhi is closer to urdu(not as close as punjabi but still) i have not seen many sindhi songs...if any at all
balochi and seraiki are also very rare to hear
i think pakistan is getting into a pastho trend thats start of going mainstream is hadiqas janan....i say this trend will really get big in the next few years...especially since coke studio is also doing quite a few pashto/dari tracks
i think if anyone can spark a language trend its coke studio cuz when something gets popular on coke studio(the niche listeners) then the mainstream artists pick it up and then it begins a nation wide phenomenon lol
