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Noor–ul–Ain popularly known as Annie Khalid, The First Pakistani Celebrity In Look UK. This month has proved to be quite lucky for our pop star Annie Khalid. Soon after the launch of her own restaurant, the AK Lounge, Annie got featured in UK’s very prestigious high-end fashion and celebrity magazine called LOOK.

Annie Khalid, the pop princess of Pakistan, who established her mark in the competitive industry with her songs, charity work and various modelling assignments, walked the runway again Annie loves to dress up and experiment with her looks. She has an eye for style.

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The first ever Pakistani girl to represent Pakistan on Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Stage. Hails from Lahore Punjab and has represented Shanker Mahadevan (Lakshya Gharana).

Sara Raza Khan biography

Birthday : 9th November
Sun Sign : Scorpio
Town : Lahore, Pakistan
School : Yousaf School System
College : Will decide after 10th standard
Family : Mama, 3 brothers and 1 sister

Music Background

I started singing when I started speaking! But, I started learning classical singing properly since the last two years from Alhamra Arts Council, under Sir Abdul Rauf.

Favourite Film : Pakeezah

Favourite Song: A song composed by my dada Ustad Iqbal Hussain, “chanda tori chandni mein

Favourite Singer : My music teacher Sir Abdul Rauf, Nayyara Noor and many more

Favourite Music Director: My music teacher Sir Abdul Rauf, Shankar Mahadevan, A.R. Rahman and many more

I love to eat: Lahori food

I love : Mamma and my family

I hate : People who are not honest with their jobs

Pakistani pop music or Paki-pop refers to popular music forms in Pakistan. Pakistani pop is a mixture of traditional Pakistani classical music and western influences of jazz, rock and roll, hip-hop and disco sung in various languages of Pakistan, including Urdu language.

The popularity of music is based on the individual sales of a single, viewer ship of its music video or the singer’s album chart positions. Pakistani pop music is attributed to have given birth to the genre in the South Asian region withAhmed Rushdi’s song ‘Ko-Ko-Korina’ in 1966.

Veterans like Runa Laila started the pop industry in Pakistan while the fifteen-year old pop sensation Nazia with her brother Zohaib Hassan ushered the birth of pop music all over South Asia tailing on the success of her British endeavors. From Rushdi’s pop hits to songs sung by the Hassan siblings, to bands including Junoon, Vital Signs and Strings, the Pakistani pop industry has steadily spread throughout South Asia and today is the most popular genre in Pakistan and the neighboring South Asian countries.

A few years later came Alamgir. Like all people from his generation, Alamgir was raised listening to songs by bands like ABBA and Boney M. Alamgir brought a new form of music to Pakistan, one that blended the classical forms with a tint of modern Western music.

In 1980, Nazia Hassan, a fifteen-years old Pakistani girl Nazia along with her brother Zohaib Hassan produced successive hits. Their songs Disco Deewane and Tere Qadmon Ko became the rage all over Asia to the extent that their very first album was declared the best selling album of the time in Asia.

Noor Jehan was the adopted stage name for Allah Wasai born in 12 September 1926 in a Punjabi family. She was a great singer and also actress. She was one of the greatest and most influential singers of her time in South Asia and was given the honorific title of Malika-e-Tarannum, means the Queen of Melody.

Her parent’s wants that she become a singer, but she was more interested in acting, and she graced the earliest Pakistani films with her great performances. She holds a remarkable record of 10,000 songs to her singing credits in various languages of India and Pakistan including Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi and Sindhi languages. She is also considered to be the first female Pakistani film director.

Noor Jehan began to sing at the age of five or six years old and showed a keen interest singing. Realizing her potential for singing, her mother sent her to receive early training in classical singing under Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan. At the age of nine, Noor Jehan drew the attention of Punjabi musician Ghulam Ahmed Chishti, who would later introduce her to stage in Lahore. In 1953 she act in the film first time and then in 1936 and so on. In 1939, Ghulam Haider composed songs for Noor Jehan which led to her early popularity. She then recorded her first song.

After the creation of Pakistan in 1947, Noor Jehan decided to move to Pakistan along with her husband. .Three years after settling in Pakistan, Noor Jehan starred in her first film in Pakistan, which was her first Punjabi film as a heroine. Shaukat and Noor Jehan directed this film together making Noor Jehan Pakistan’s first female director.

In 1986, on a tour of North America, Noor Jehan suffered from chest pains. In 2000, Noor Jehan was hospitalised in Karachi and suffered a heart attack. On Saturday afternoon, December 23, 2000, Noor Jehan died from heart failure. She got many national and international awards. She sung some memorable songs in the Pak-indo war 1965 for Pakistan army.

Hadiqa Kiani well known Pakistani female pop singer was born in 11 august 1974 in Rawalpandi. She has master degree in Psychology from Lahore University. In her early life she lost her father and then her family spent a very tough time. She was the only child of her parents but having two siblings.

The entire three children’s had a talent for music, so her mother brought them to Pakistani national council of Arts. Kiani perform before the crowed of thousands peoples when she was a little girl.

She represented Pakistan in the International Children Festival in Turkey, Jordan, Bulgaria, and Greece, winning various medals along the way. She also used to be on a weekly musical program from PTV. Firstly she released her first album Razz with Adnan Sami. After the release of her second album Roshni she got famous. It remains her best-selling album to date and has helped establish her as both a Pakistani musical icon and the country’s leading female vocalist. She followed up ‘Roshni’ with `Rung’. In 2007, she became the first Pakistani mainstream artist to release a complete English album, `Rough Cut’.

Her increasing popularity was reached at the top, when in 1997 when Kiani became the first Asian singer ever to perform on the British National Lottery Live. She became the first Asian female singer ever to be signed by Pepsi Cola International. She also performed in Japan, Malaysia, kulalampour, Turkey. Islamic Countries such as Azerbaijan, U.A.E, Iran, Qatar, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Kuwait, Lebanon, Egypt, Sudan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Turkey, New York and Kualalampur.

In late October, 2005, Kiani became the first person to adopt a baby from the earthquake. She has named the baby boy “Naaday Ali”. On March 23, 2006, Kiani was awarded the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz by the Government of Pakistan, one of the highest civil awards of the country.