Sunday, December 21, 2008

Zeb and Haniya, the Pakistan girl-band that's creating a stir...

"We have been doing music together since we were six years old - as long as I can remember," says Haniya Aslam, as her cousin Zeb (Zebunissa) Bangash sits beside her. 

"It started out as a fun thing at family functions. 

"Music was very much a part of our family set-up - my father was an aficionado and all my uncles could play an instrument. 

"Our grandmother was also a big influence - she was a poet and was fluent in three languages." More...

See also:

  1. Zeb-n-Haniya-Aitebar
  2. The Accolade, Saudi Arabia's all-girl rock band!!!
  3. Junoon:the Beatles of Pakistan?

4 comments:

  1. Zeb and Haniya, go for it, and keep safe, from Norway & rest of the Scandinavia we will always support you, you are our NWFP and Pushtun pride. GOD BLESS YOU GIRLS

    we don't want to be played by hypocrites and selfish fanatics, keeping women in chains and denying their skills is in-human,
    it is not manly to subdue women, a man is a man when he can face the skills of women and prove his power thereafter, by making women equal to men means men will not be half anymore rather full. So lets be full men by making our women full too.

    Khan (I am not an asylum seeker or refugee but a technologist who is transferred to work abroad as expatriate and I am a regular Pukhton from suburbs of Peshawar)

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  2. Thanks anonymous. Its not easy to find like-minded Pashtuns but always a pleasure to come across them, hiding in their little corners of the world :) Are you in Norway? Because the lady who played jazz trumpet on the album (and goat horn on Paimana) is also Norwegian. Small world.
    Oh, and my name is Haniya, and I'm half of Zeb & Haniya.
    khuday pa amaan

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  3. Thanks for dropping in, Haniya! And keep on singing! We need more people like you...

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