List of Pakistani music bands
The Panthers, a Karachi-based band founded in the late 60s, consisted of Norman Braganza (Lead Guitar and Vocals), Fasahat Husain Syed (Keyboard, Sitar and Tabla), Eric Fernandes (Bass Guitar) and Syed Ahsan Sajjad (Drums and Vocals).
The Panthers disbanded in the early 70s when one of the band members left the country to settle overseas after Pakistan's authoritarian regime gained momentum.
In the 1980s, rock bands Vital Signs and Strings rose in defiance of the authoritarian regime and gained immense popularity amongst the youth.
[7] NTM, launched a show titled Music Channel Charts to highlight new talent every week due to popular youth demand.
In a short span of time, the Western-influenced rock bands gained enormous popularity and were generally welcomed by the public.
Cities such as Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad witnessed an explosion of rock bands and concerts in 2000 as Pakistan began to liberalize under President Musharraf's "enlightened moderation" campaign.
[13] With the rise of Vital Signs and later, Junoon and others, the rock music, exploded in the 1980s and 1990s, became a vehicle for expressing patriotic nationalist spirit in Pakistan.
[14] According to the editorial written in The Express Tribune in 2011, the "Vital Signs and Pakistan's ingenious rock music was the only "arsenal" the country had against India's encroaching entertainment industry.
"[14] Several popular bands, including EP, Call, and Noori, have been integral in revitalizing the rock culture in Pakistan.
After the successful emergence of Vital Signs in the 1980s and Junoon in the 1990s, the heavy metal music genre began to rise after the 1997 general elections.
Guitarist Salman Ahmad gained fame for his unique style of playing Sufi-style and neoclassical kinds of music in heavy metal form.
[18] Since 2004, the economic liberalisation programmes of Prime minister Shaukat Aziz which helped open the new Pakistan TV and several music video channels, have triggered the underground heavy metal movements in cities such as Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad.
Jogi is the first single from the forthcoming full-length album of The Sketches, the track was recorded in Pakistan and USA and features a guest appearance by Grammy Award winning harmonica player John Popper and is produced by Jono Manson.
It gained fame from Pepsi Battle of Bands by performing songs like Sawaal, Aag Ki Tarhan.
The band has also won the Lux Style Award in 2017 for Best Emerging Talent (Music) 2017 for the song 'Kaaghaz Ka Jahaaz'.
[22]Hassan & Roshaan is one of the new emerging duo/band with there major hit of the song Doobne de This is a list of music bands in Pakistan.
