Yasir Jaswal | |
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Born |
Yasir Jaswal March 11, 1983 Lahore, Punjab |
Residence | Islamabad |
Nationality | Pakistani |
Other names | Yasir M Jaswal |
Occupation | Film and music director, writer, singer, photographer |
Known for | 'Call' band (lead vocalist) |
Notable work | Jalaibee |
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Yasir M Jaswal is a Pakistani singer, film and music director, writer, and photographer. He is currently the lead vocalist of the band Call. He directed several music videos and in 2015 he made his feature film debut with Jalaibee. His younger brothers Umair and Uzair Jaswal are also singers and actors. He won Lux Style Award in 2014 for directing music video of Uzair's single Bolay. He is also one time Lux Style Award and two time Hum Award nominator for directing music videos.
Jaswal was born on 11 March 1983 in Lahore, Punjab, and currently lives in Islamabad.
Jaswal started his career as a musician in around 2003, later he joined the Islamabad-based rock band Irtaash. The band was founded in November 2001 and released its first album Kala Safaid Aasman consisting of eleven rock songs in May 2011, produced by Sarmad Abdul Ghafoor at the SnM Studios. He left the band in October 2011.
In August 2012, Yasir released his first solo song Khizaan, which he produced along with Ghafoor and recorded at the SnM Studios in Islamabad.
After leaving Irtaash, he joined Zulfiqar Jabbar Khan's band Call as a lead vocalist in June 2013, a year after the former lead vocalist Junaid Khan left the band. Before that, Jaswal and Zulfiqar, known as Xulfi had already worked together once in the band Entity Paradigm.
In 2013, he wrote and composed his younger brother Uzair Jaswal's single Bolay.
Jaswal founded a music and film production company, Jaswal Films, and has directed several music videos, especially for Uzair.
In May 2010, Jaswal directed Uzair Jaswal's Mother's Day special song Maa, produced by Khurram Waqar at MindWorks Media. In November 2010, he directed Uzair's song Tere Bin.