Saira Peter

'[13] Born in Karachi, Pakistan, Peter displayed singing talent at a young age, performing for church and community events, but she had no formal music training as a child.

She studied raagdari with Chitrarupa Gupta (disciple of Pundit A.T. Kanan and Geeta Bannerjee) and late Ustad Fida Hussain Khan (Patiala Gharana).

In September 2021 she performed a well-received solo set at the international Mystic Music Festival, Konya, Turkey in commemoration of the birth of sufi poet Mevlana Rumi.

On 6 May 2022 her OST featured on GEO TV's "Dil Awaiz", a duet with Nabeel Shaukat (Composer: Naveed Nashad), the first episode quickly gaining millions of views.

Passionate about bringing together people of all backgrounds, during her second MA (History) Saira Peter identified music as a historical means of bridging otherwise isolated communities and promoting a positive message.

[26] In 2015-16 she worked with vocal coach Paul Knight to create several Sufi Opera songs based on English translations of poetry by Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai.

She is currently working with a team of British artists to develop the world’s first full-scale “Sufi Opera”, a musical stage drama based on the story of Umar Marvi, one of Latif’s “seven heroines” of Sindh.