Knowing a Little About Shahvar Ali Khan (Interview)
by
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 🙂