Sanam Marvi

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Sanam Marvi
صنم ماروی
Latif Award
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Background information
Birth nameSanam Marvi صنم ماروي
Born (1986-04-17) 17 April 1986 (age 35)
OriginHyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan
GenresSufi, folk music[1][2]
Occupation(s)Singer
InstrumentsVocals
Years active2009 – present
LabelsSagarika

Coke Studio (Pakistan)
Virsa Heritage Revived on PTV

Pakistan Television Corporation

Sanam Marvi (Urdu: صنم ماروی‎) (born : 17 April 1986) is a Pakistani folk and sufi singer. She sings in Sindhi, Punjabi, and Balochi languages.[1]

Early life and career[]

Sanam Marvi's childhood was full of hardships and poverty.[3] Marvi started getting music training at the age of 7. She is from a Sindhi Family. Her father, Faqeer Khan Muhammad, was also a Sindhi folk musician/harmonium player. He gave Marvi initial classical music training for 2 years, and later she learnt classical singing and raags from Ustad Fateh Ali Khan from Sindh in the Gwalior gharana tradition. She says that she has also learned a lot from folk singer Abida Parveen.[1][2] She performed in Rafi Peer Theatre in 2004 and 2005.

Sanam Marvi debuted, in 2009, at ‘Virsa Heritage’, a music program on Pakistan Television Corporation channel hosted by Yousuf Salahuddin. She affectionately calls him 'like a baba to her' (a father figure to her) for giving her a big break in the Pakistani entertainment industry. Later she performed at Coke Studio Pakistan, a Pakistani television series featuring live music performances.[1]

Marvi performs sufi concerts around the world. She is considered among the 3 of the finest performers in the Sufi, ghazal and folk genres. The other 2 being Abida Parveen and Tina Sani.[4] < She made her debut in a solo performance on the Indian soil at 2010's Jahan-e-Khusrau, the Sufi music festival arranged by the famous film producer Muzaffar Ali of 1981 film Umrao Jaan fame.[2] In February 2011, she performed with Indian playback singer Rekha Bhardwaj at Times of India's Aman ki Asha event at Chowmahalla Palace, Hyderabad, India.[5]

Marvi made her live concert singing debut in 2012 with concerts held at London, Paris, New York, singing alongside Hadiqa Kiyani and Ali Zafar.[1]

She sang the OST for A-Plus Entertainment's Piya Bedardi and Urdu1's Bachay Baraye Farokht.

Sanam Marvi feels that lyrics written by the Sufi poets have a universal and timeless appeal among the public and that people find comfort in those words.[1]

Recently, she carried on the legacy of folk genre and sang 'Hairaan Hua' from the platform of Coke Studio.[6]

Personal life[]

Sanam Marvi is married to Hamid Ali Khan. They have three children.[1] Her first husband, Aftab Ahmed Pharero, also known as Aftab Ahmed Kalhoro, was murdered in Karachi in 2009.[7] They had married in 2006 but had been estranged for two years prior to his death. Marvi was Aftab's second wife.[7]

Awards[]

  • Latif Award (2011)
  • Best Singer – Sufism University[8]
  • Best Singer Light Music – Virsa at 17th PTV National Awards held in 2012
  • Won UNESCO Award at 9th International Music Festival (Festival Sharq Taronalari, Samarqand 2013). She is the second artist after Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan to win this award.
  • Tamgha-i-Imtiaz (Medal of Distinction) Award by the President of Pakistan in 2020[9]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g 'First person: Sanam's Sufi calling', Dawn (newspaper) Published 21 July 2013. Retrieved 14 April 2018
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c Shailaja Tripathi (18 February 2010). "Arts / Music : Messenger of peace (A rising star in Pakistan)". Chennai, India: The Hindu (newspaper). Retrieved 24 November 2020.
  3. ^ "Speak Your Heart With Samina Peerzada" (Interview).
  4. ^ Striking the right chord (Sanam Marvi) Newsline (magazine), Published Jan 2011 issue. Retrieved 24 November 2020
  5. ^ "Rekha, Sanam performed in Hyderabad". The Times Of India (newspaper). 21 February 2011.. Retrieved 14 April 2018
  6. ^ Coke Studio (Pakistan) Season 12 artist - 'Hairaan Hua' by Sanam Marvi, retrieved 4 December 2019
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b "Folk singer`s husband found shot dead". Dawn (newspaper). Pakistan. 4 August 2009. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
  8. ^ "Sufism university will counter extremism: CM"., 'Best Singer' award info on Dawn (newspaper), Published 21 January 2011. Retrieved 24 November 2020
  9. ^ Ibne Safi, Fehmida Riaz among 116 recipients of civil awards (also lists Sanam Marvi's award) Dawn (newspaper), Published 14 August 2019, Retrieved 24 November 2020
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