Birth name Tina Sani Role Singer Origin Pakistani | Occupation(s) Singer Genres Classical music, Ghazal Name Tina Sani | |
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Albums Koi Baat Karo & Other TV Hits, Anokha Ladla & Other TV Hits, Eik Haseen Sham Tina Sani, Sukhan Ke Naam Similar People Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Waqar Ali, Iqbal Bano, Nayyara Noor, Rohail Hyatt | ||
Nawai ney tina sani coke studio pakistan season 3
Tina Sani is a Pakistani female singer renowned for her classical and semi-classical Urdu Ghazals.
Contents
- Nawai ney tina sani coke studio pakistan season 3
- Tina sani zindagi shart hai
- Early life
- Career
- Singing career
- Personal life
- Awards
- References
Tina sani zindagi shart hai
Early life
Tina Sani was born in Dhaka, at the time East Pakistan; the family moved to Kabul for a few years, where her father, Nasir Sani, worked for an oil company, before moving to Karachi, where after graduating from the Karachi American School, she went on to study commercial art. She was trained in classical music by Ustad Nizamuddin Khan, son of Ustad Ramzan Khan of Dehli Gharana and Ustad Chand Amrohvi. Tina also received special training from ghazal maestro Mehdi Hassan .
Career
Tina Sani began working for an advertising agency in 1977. She was involved in all the creative aspects of advertising business, including listening to and evaluating the music that is an integral part of advertising. Tina also taught at the Karachi American School in the art department.
Singing career
She entered the professional world of singing in 1980, when producer Ishrat Ansari introduced her on TV in a youth programme titled 'Tarang' hosted by Alamgir.
She was influenced by renowned ghazal singers from South Asia like Mehdi Hasan, Malika Pukhraj, Begum Akhtar, Mukhtar Begum and Farida Khanum but has created her own style of singing. She gained much acclaim in Pakistan and India by singing the poetry of Faiz Ahmed Faiz including poems like 'Bahaar aayi' and 'Bol ke lab azad hain terey' composed by Arshad Mehmood. She renders poetry of contemporary poets with complete ease and is equally at home singing works of Zauq, Ghalib and Mir Taqi Mir; the immortals of Urdu poetry.
Her rendition of Iqbal's Shikwa Jawab-e-Shikwa has earned her great reviews and remains to be the lengthiest piece of poetry she has ever sung.
More recently Tina Sani sang Rumi's beginning verses of the Mathnavi for Coke Studio (Pakistan) to bring verses of the 13th century mystic poet's Persian verses in Urdu language.
Tina Sani was invited as a guest judge in the first Pakistan Idol TV show.
Tina Sani was part of Lahore music meet, 2016. She shared her music journey in a session named "Classical Music Appreciation". Sani also discussed the current situation and lack of classical music from Pakistani music industry. She praised role of television in supporting them to continue practising music.
She has sung many songs for the Pakistani TV and film industry, such as the OST for Hum TV's soap 'Choti Si Ghalat Fehmi' and Ho Mann Jahan's 'Khush Piya Wassen'. She has also sung the OST for PTV's 'Moorat', Hum TV's Bari Aapa and ARY Zindagi's 'Bahu Begum'.
Personal life
Tina Sani is married and has a son, Nasir Siddiqui (dreevar) (b. 1996). Her family roots are deep in the Pakistani art community. Her niece Rehaam and Nadia Hussain are leading models of Pakistani fashion industry.
Her top five favourite songs are
- بابل مورا – a song by K.L. Saigal
- کورا کاغذ تھا یہ من میرا – a song from film Aradhana by Kishore Kumar
- آپ جیسا کوئی میری زندگی میں آئے تو بات بن جائے – a song by Nazia Hasan from 1980 film Qurbani
- کھڑی نیم کے نیچے – a folk song by Pakistani folk singer Mai Bhaagi
- کوئی تو ہے جو نظامِ ہستی چلا رہا ہے وہی خدا ہے – a Hamd song by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan,written by Muzaffar Warsi