Knowing a Little About Shahvar Ali Khan (Interview)

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Sadaf Fayyaz

My Education: Bachelor’s of Arts (Honors) in Economics and International Studies from Trinity College, USA.

My Childhood: I am still a child

My Inspiration: Hemant Kumar, Muhammad Rafi, Geeta Dutt, Saleem Raza, Ahmed Rushdie, Asha, Nayarra Noor, Guru Dutt,  Prasoon Joshi,  Khurshid Anwar, O.P Nayar, Sohail Rana, Farida Khanum, Iqbal Bano, Asha Bhosle, Geeta Dutt, Muhammad Rafi, Manna Dey, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Abida Parveen, Begum Akhtar, Noor Jehan, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Amanat Ali Khan, Salamat Ali Khan and Talat Mehmood.

My inspiration (lyrics): Sahir Ludhianvi and Javed Akhtar

My Interests: Music, Films, advertising, peace, social Identity issues

My Favorite Bands: Strings

My Favorite Musicians: Shafqat Amanat Ali, Atif Aslam, Ali Zafar, Qasim Ali Naqvi, Syed Farhad Humayun, Qasim Mahmood, Shahzad Hameed, Shantainu Moitra, Pritam, Vishal-Shekhar, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Salim-Sulemain, Himesh Reshamiya, and Sajid-Wajid.

My Motivation: Comes from immortality

My Desire: Is to be Pakistan’s global Peace icon and a renowned songwriter-singer.

I am working with: Ustad Jee Ustad Basharat Hussain, Shumair Joseph, Bobby, Samar, Nasirsahib and Qasim

My Website: www.shahvaralikhan.com

My Learning: Comes from wisdom of seniors and innocence of juniors

I Take Criticism as: a food, no artist can survive without it

My Music Genre: Folk pop and rock

My Expectation: To become a famous star

I Define Music as: Pyaar nahi hey sur se jisko, Wo morakh Insan nahi.

One must know: His trade-offs

My Message: Khwaab Dekha Karo 🙂