Alamgir (pop singer)
| Alamgir | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1955 |
| Origin | Karachi, Pakistan |
| Genres | Pop music, Playback singing |
| Occupation(s) | Singer musician |
| Years active | 1970–present |
| Website | http://www.alamgirfanclub.com/ |
Alamgir is a Pakistani singer and is considered one of the pioneers of the Urdu pop music. His versatile style of singing is inspired by playback singer Ahmed Rushdi and Elvis Presley. In April 2013, Alamgir joined Meesha Shafi, Strings, Ali Azmat and Shahzad Hasan as a judge on the immensely popular singing talent show Music Icons which aired on ARY Digital TV channel.
Alamgir was born in East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh) into a Bengali family. His father Farmuzal Haq was a politician and a member of the All India Muslim League. He studied in Mirzapur Cadet College, Tangail, in the province of East Bengal. He briefly studied in B A F Shaheen College in Dhaka. At the age of around 15, he moved to Karachi, West Pakistan to continue his studies at the University of Karachi to finally immigrate to USA.
He settled in the PECHS area of Karachi and started singing in the evenings, around 1970, at a small café called 'Globe Hotel' on Tariq Road, Karachi. He was promised Rupees 350 per month plus free dinner. The café was famous for its intellectual gatherings and that is where his potential talent was spotted. Someone from the audience in the hotel liked his style of singing and playing the guitar. So that person told him about a programme on the Pakistan Television Corporation station called Ferozan where the program host Khushbakht Aliya was conducting a show for the youth. He gave his audition, Khushbakht liked his singing and the guitar playing but she had already selected someone else. It just so happened that renowned Pakistani music composer Sohail Rana, was also sitting in the same room who later asked someone to call Alamgir to his car outside the TV station. Sohail Rana said, he liked his (Alamgir's) guitar playing and asked if he would like to perform as a guitarist for his children's programme (hum hi hum). This is how Alamgir entered in the formal world of music.
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