Thursday, 13 August 2009

Haroon


Haroon is a Pakistani singer, composer, musician and producer. His website states that he has sold nearly three million CDs and tapes worldwidBorn to a Pakistani father and a New Zealander mother, Haroon began playing the guitar and composing songs at the age of 13. He formed his first band, Idiosyncracies, in After graduating with a degree in Business Administration from the George Washington University in the United States in the early 1990s, he formed the band Awazwith a couple of musician friends.
Haroon and the band made a video for "Janeman", a song which Haroon had composed when he was 16. Haroon sent it to
MTV Asia, and the song became the first Urdu/Hindi pop song to air on MTV.
At their peak, Awaz was the biggest band in Pakistan, and released three successful albums and two big singles between 1993 and 1999. Awaz was one of the pioneering bands in Pakistani pop music, and influenced many future musiciansschool with schoolmates at the age of 14 years old.

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