Gohar Mumtaz
| Goher Mumtaz | |
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| Native name | گوہر ممتاز |
| Birth name | Goher Mumtaz |
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27 July 1983 Lahore, Pakistan |
| Origin | Lahore, Pakistan |
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| Years active | 2002 – till present |
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| Website | jaltheband |
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Goher Mumtaz (Urdu: گوہر ممتاز ) is a Pakistani musician, singer-songwriter, music composer, guitarist and actor. He is famous for being the founding member of rock band Jal.
Goher was born in Lahore. As a child, Goher practiced music on a keyboard which he got as a gift. At 16, he sold his bike to buy his first guitar which he hid under his bed due to parent's restrictions.
After his high school exams, Goher suffered an accident and was confined to bed for six months. This gave him time and space to grasp every note in the music that he listened to. With no formal training, Goher taught himself composition, song writing and singing. Later, he won in many college-level music competitions and gained momentum by performing at local restaurants in Lahore. He was inspired by Pakistani Bands Junoon & Vital Signs and wanted to form a band of his own like them.
Goher & Atif Aslam were in the college fellows and they started singing in college concerts, they thought to form a band and released their first song Adat on internet. The song was written and composed by Goher and sung by Atif. The time song was released it became major hit in subcontinent and all radio and tv stations started playing that song.
After the major hit of Adat Goher & Atif started getting concert queries and then they decided to give a proper name to their band, so they named it Jal (band) and performed in various concerts with this name and line up was Goher on Guitars and Atif on Vocals.
Later on Atif left the band because of some differences and he pursued his solo career while Goher formed the new line up and brought Farhan Saeed on vocals and Amir Sheraz (Shazi) on bass. With this new line up Jal released their first studio album Aadat in 2003. The album was major hit in both Pakistan and India and won various awards.With same line up Jal released Boondh and again it was major hit and band won many awards. They performed in numerous amount of concerts with same line up. Jal also performed in Coke Studio (Pakistan) in season 4 and performed two songs.
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