The Milestones

The Milestones
The Milestones, visible from left to right; Ziyyad Gulzar, Candi and Ali Tim.
Background information
Origin	Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Genres	Pop rock
Years active	1990–1996
Labels	Visible Changes, Sound Master
Associated acts	Aakash, Rushk
Website	www.themilestonesband.com
Members	Ziyyad Gulzar Ali Tim Candy Pereira

The Milestones were a Pakistani pop rock band that formed in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, in 1990. The group was formed by lead guitarist, Ziyyad Gulzar and bassist, Ali Tim, who were sooned joined by female lead vocalist, Candy Pereira. The Milestones were one of the pioneer bands of the local pop music scene and during their time they produced some really good singles; quite a few of which even did well at the local music charts. Since its inception, the band only released two studio albums with performing innumerable concerts and gigs, receiving worldwide acclaim.

The band achieved mainstream success with their debut album, Jadoo, released in 1993. The album included famous singles like "Baat", "Jan-e-Jaan", "Jeevan" and "Mein". The success of the band's debut album led them to travel internationally to US, Canada and Cyprus quite a few times, whereas to promote their album they also toured throughout Pakistan. After a gap of eighteen months, the band then recorded and released their second studio album, Volume II. The album included many singles from its predecessor and was not as successful as compared to the band's previous album release. Singles like "Aag" and "Aandhi aur Toofan" from the album did well at the music charts.

After the release of their second studio album, vocalist Candy Pereira and bassist Ali Tim moved to Canada whereas lead guitarist, Ziyyad Gulzar went on forming his own band, Rushk.

The band was formed in Karachi, Sindh, in 1990 by lead guitarist, Ziyyad Gulzar along with Carl Miranda on drums and Samar Salim on Keyboards. Ziyyad met bassist Ali Tim, at a gig and was offered to join the band as the bands bassist had left. Ali Tim was awestruck with the set played by Ziyyad and his band. Although, knowing less about playing a bass guitar, Ali Tim affirmed playing with Ziyyad as soon as he was offered to be part of Ziyyad's new project. From then, they were all set to begin their musical career and started to call themselves as "The Milestones".

Three months later, the band, while performing at gig, met a female vocalist, Candy Pereira who was highly inspired by the band performance and thus put forward her wish to be part of the band. She was then auditioned by the two band members, Ali Tim and Ziyyad Gulzar, and after a successful audition Candy was recruited and inducted in the band as the lead vocalist. The trio remained the core members of the band whereas on the other hand the band recruited two sisters, Zoren and Zelena also became a part of the band as backing vocalists for Candy.