World Music Day: What kind of music do you like?

World Music Day is being celebrated all over the world including Pakistan. The day began in 1981 in the French capital, Paris, and within a few years, it was celebrated all over the world, including in Asian countries.

It is not possible to say when man made music a means of communication or expression of various moods, but the discovery of musical instruments from thousands of years old archeological sites, mostly made of stone, is proof that music The history of is as old as the human race.

The tradition of music in the subcontinent is very old. The art flourished long before the Mughal period. After Amir Khosrow, hundreds of classical singers from Tan Sen and Beju Bawara, KL Sehgal and Mukhtar Begum became the masters of the art until recently.

The beautiful aspects of classical music include thumri, dadra, kafi and khyal singing, the number of listeners of which decreased with time, but it did not affect the greatness of these aspects.

In the field of music after the formation of Pakistan, names like Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Noor Jahan, Mehdi Hassan, Farida Khanum, Iqbal Bano, Khurshid Begum, Ghulam Ali, Pervez Mehdi, Ahmed Rushdie and Masood Rana created and sang timeless songs.

In folk music, Alam Lohar, Shaukat Ali, Nazir Begum, Suraya Multanikar, Reshmaan, Pathan Khan, Abida Parveen, Sai Akhtar, Arif Lohar and others brought this art to its peak.

Another aspect of music is Qawwali, the brightest star of which is Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, whose beautiful voice and singing are popular all over the world and even today his fans are present in every part of the world.

In this regard, Ghulam Farid Sabri and Aziz Mian and many other poets also created their fans all over the world with their singing.

Music trends have also changed over time. Now the younger generation mostly likes to listen to pop music. The beginning of pop music in Pakistan is due to Nazia Hassan who gained immense popularity with her songs in the 80’s.

Ali Zafar, Atif Aslam, Umair Jaswal and Momina Mustahasan are popular names in pop music these days. 90s singers like Hadiqa Kayani and Ali Azmat are now embracing the same aspect of music.

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