PESHAWAR: Pashto singer from Swat Nazia Iqbal will launch her new music album which unlike the ones released in the past has Urdu songs. Shooting videos for her new album on an ornate stage in a hall ...

When Indian-American singer-songwriter Zeshan B takes the stage and begins to perform, it’s safe to say that the sound you first expect to hear is not classic, gospel-infused R&B with passionate ...

PESHAWAR: After releasing famous Pashto numbers including Lambay and Meena, Peshawar-based singer Rahim Khan released the video of his third song Khwab, his first number in Urdu. The lyrics of the ...

The father of Urdu ghazal and Chaucer of Urdu poetry in India, Shah Muhammad Waliullah or Wali Gujarati, lies here in the city. For the last 13 years, his grave has lain partially beneath a road ...

Noted lyricist-poet Gulzar says that contrary to the belief that Urdu is dying, the language is alive and moving ahead with time. "Urdu is alive the same way it was earlier and it is alive with the ...

WorldSpace satellite radio on Thursday added a new 24-hour Urdu radio station Falak to its station offerings. Meaning ‘Sky’, Falak aims to showcase the vast repertoire of Urdu music and celebrate the ...

Talent has prompted four youngsters to pool their energies to produce videos that could serve as their launching pad into the world of popular Urdu music. The group - a lyricist and three singers- has ...

Renowned young Sufi Qawwal Rais Anis Sabri has just unveiled his latest single, Jahan Kal Raat Ko Hum The — a hauntingly beautiful Urdu rendition of Hazrat Amir Khusro’s 13th-century Persian poem Nami ...

MUSIC has a long history in the subcontinent. A large number of books were written on music here and till the revolution of 1857 most of them were in Persian as it was the language used in most of the ...

Tughlaq director Arun Marwah talks to HT about the play to be staged in Gurugram on Sunday. Vivek Singh plays the titular role. Arun Marwah is all set for the premiere of his directorial Tughlaq. The ...