Zeb Bangash

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Zeb Bangash
Born
Zebunisa Bangash

7 March 1982 (1982-03-07) (age 39)
Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
EducationSmith College
Mount Holyoke College
OccupationSinger-songwriter
RelativesHaniya Aslam (cousin)
Musical career
GenresPop, Sufi
Years active2007–present
LabelsFire Records, Coke Studio
Associated acts

Zebunisa Bangash (born March 7, 1982) is a Pakistani singer-songwriter from Lahore, Punjab. Her family originally hails from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Apart from her solo career, she was the member of music group Zeb and Haniya along with Haniya Aslam who is her first cousin.[1]

Career[]

Zebunisa Bangash began her career with her cousin Haniya Aslam as Zeb and Haniya.[2] They released their debut album Chup! in 2008.[3] In 2013, Zeb did a song for the film Madras Cafe and made her debut in Bollywood. She continued her solo career after Haniya left for studies in Canada. She sung for the soundtrack of Highway (2014), Bin Roye (2015), Manto (2015) , Ho Mann Jahan (2016) , Fitoor (2016) , Lala Begum (2016),Verna (2017) , Parwaaz Hai Junoon (2018) , Baaji (2019) , Parey Hut Love (2019) and Superstar (2019).[4][5] She also sung the title track of television series Diyar-e-Dil which won Lux Style Award for Best Original Soundtrack and Hum Award for Best Original Soundtrack in 2016.[6]

She has sung several songs for Coke Studio.,[7] including Paimona, Chup, Chal Diyay, Bibi Sanam Janem, Tann Dolay and more. She then also performed a single in the second season Pepsi Battle of the Bands.[8] In 2019, she performed "Roshe", a Kashmiri ode to loss in CokeStudio12.[9]

Zeb Bangash is the first Pakistani artist to serve as music director of an award-winning Bollywood film;[10] she made her debut with, “Lipstick under my Burkha," a Prakash Jha production whose music was snapped up by music marketing giant T-Series in India. The film won several awards, including FilmDe Femmes Festival, France 2017, Glasgow Film Festival 2017, London Asian Film Awards 2017, Minneapolis St. Paul International Festival 2017, Mumbai Film Festival 2016, Screen Awards, India 2018 and Tokyo International Film Festival 2017.

She is part of the Brooklyn-based ensemble Sandaraa, with the renowned klezmer clarinetist/composer Michael Winograd and a number of other leading Brooklyn-based musicians. The group was recently awarded the prestigious grants from Chamber Music America and the MAP fund to compose and record music that features the works of brilliant Urdu poets in the subcontinent. Their first viral single, Farz Karo, written by the poet, Ibn-e-Insha, was released at the beginning of 2018, and their forthcoming songs are slated for release.

Since the past few years, Bangash has been under the tutelage of Ustaad Naseeruddin Saami, a master of the centuries-old Dehli Gharana. She is currently working on a documentary recording of Ustaad Saami with GRAMMY-winning producer Ian Brennan, to explore his ancestral legacy of Khayal and Qawwali, and its sufic roots and lineage from the times of Hazrat Amir Khusro.

Bangash has been profiled by international media such as the BBC, TIME, Asia Society, Filmfare Middle East, Rolling Stone India, NPR, The News International, DAWN, and many others. She is a fellow at the US Pakistan Leadership Forum, has been invited to speak and perform at the prestigious events such as the PobpTech in Maine, at the Brookings Institute in DC, at the Harvard Pakistan Conference in Cambridge MA and at TedX events in Pakistan. She has performed worldwide, including on a US State Department sponsored tour Center Stage which included a performance at Kennedy Centre, Washington DC. She also performed at the UN Centre at Pakistan Embassy Washington and at Asia Centre New York on occasion of Lahore Literary Festival NY 2018.  

Given her prolific career and her ability to sing in various languages and appeal to audiences of all ages across cultures and continents, it is no wonder that Zeb has a huge international fan following be it in Chennai or Canada, and she has been invited to perform to large audiences across the globe, in places such as, London, Norway, New York, Washington, Chicago, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, Chennai, Poona, Delhi, Agra, Mumbai, Kabul and others.

Personal life[]

She married on 5 November 2017.[11]

Discography[]

Soundtracks[]

Year Name Song Co-singer Notes
Films
2013 Madras Cafe "Ajnabi" Bollywood debut
2014 Highway "Sooha Saaha" Alia Bhatt
2015 Bin Roye "Maula Maula" Abida Parveen
Manto "Kya Hoga" Ali Sethi
2016 Ho Mann Jahaan "Mann Ke Jahan"
"Dil Pagla"
"Dosti" Zoheb Hassan
Fitoor "Haminastu"
"Hone Do Batiyaan" Nandini Srikar
2017 Verna "Sambhal Sambhal Kay" Richie Robinson
"Khushi Ki Baat" Haroon Shahid
2018 Parwaaz Hai Junoon "Naache Re" Jabar Abbas
2019 Baaji "Shaam Nasheeli" Saad Sultan
"Ik Tu" Saad Sultan
"Khilti Kali" Taha Malik
"Badlaan" Saad Sultan
Parey Hut Love "Morey Saiyan"
Superstar "Bekaraan" Ali Sethi
Television
2015 Tum Mere Paas Raho "Tum Mere Paas Raho" Hum TV
Diyar-e-Dil "Yaar-e-Mann" Momim Durrani Hum TV
2016 Ek Thi Marium "Pankh Laga Ke" telefilm title track
Kösem Sultan "Kösem Sultan" Urdu 1[12]
2017 Sammi "Sammi" Zaheer Abbas Hum TV
2018 Noor ul Ain "Noor ul Ain" Ali Sethi Ary Digital
Kaisa Hai Naseeban "Kaisa Hai Naseeban" Ary Digital
2020 Dulhan "Kya O Mein Dulhan" Hum TV

Singles[]

Year Title Song Notes
2016 CokeStudio9 "Aja Re Moray Saiyaan" with Noori[13]
"Dilruba Na Raazi" with Faakhir[14]
2017 Pepsi Battle of the Bands "Sureela Samundar" [15]
2019 CokeStudio12 "Roshe" [16]

Awards and nominations[]

Year Nominee / work Award Result
Lux Style Awards
2016 "Kya Hoga" – Manto Best Female Playback Nominated
"Yar-e-Mann" – Diyar-e-Dil Best OST Won
Hum Awards
2016 "Yar-e-Mann" – Diyar-e-Dil Hum Award for Best Original Soundtrack Won

References[]

  1. ^ Rehman, Maliha (28 August 2016). "FirstPerson: "Music is not a competitive sport" – Zeb Bangash". Dawn. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
  2. ^ "Zeb and Haniya- The Band". Zebandhaniya.com. Archived from the original on 1 January 2008. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  3. ^ Pakistani Music Channel review
  4. ^ Faisal, Sabeen (22 October 2016). "In conversation with Zeb Bangash, the voice of 'Ho Mann Jahaan'". HIP. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
  5. ^ "'Fitoor' experience was special for me: Zeb Bangash". The Express Tribune. 26 January 2016. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
  6. ^ Sabeeh, Maheen (23 February 2016). "Haniya is my sister. I have to support every decision she makes…". The News International. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
  7. ^ Salahuddin, Zahra (14 August 2016). "Coke Studio review: Episode 1 saved by Zeb Bangash's lovely ballad". Images. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
  8. ^ Ahmed Sarym (28 August 2017). "The exploitation in Pakistan's music industry is really appalling: Zeb Bangash". DAWN Images. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
  9. ^ Maheen Sabeeh (24 October 2019). "Coke Studio second episode to drop tomorrow". The News.
  10. ^ "Zeb Bangash in Concert at Yale | Yale MacMillan Center South Asian Studies". southasia.macmillan.yale.edu. Retrieved 6 November 2020.
  11. ^ "It's official: Zeb Bangash ties the knot!". DAWN Images. 7 November 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  12. ^ Kösem Sultan OST. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  13. ^ Coke Studio (13 August 2016). "Aaja Re Moray Saiyaan, Zeb Bangash, Episode 1, Coke Studio Season 9". Retrieved 17 September 2017 – via YouTube.
  14. ^ Coke Studio (26 August 2016). "Dilruba Na Raazi, Zeb Bangash & Faakhir Mehmood, Episode 3, Coke Studio Season 9". Retrieved 17 September 2017 – via YouTube.
  15. ^ Pepsi Pakistan (26 August 2017). "Zeb Bangash – Sureela Samundar – Episode 5 – #PepsiBattleOfTheBands". Retrieved 17 September 2017 – via YouTube.
  16. ^ Maheen Sabeeh (24 October 2019). "Coke Studio second episode to drop tomorrow". The News.

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