Ali Baba Khan ( ps, علي بابا خان; born Ali Ul Habib, 5 March 1993) is a Pakistani Pashtun Sufi singer in the Pashto music industry.

Early life and education

He was born on 5 March 1993 in

Peshawar Peshawar (; ps, پېښور ; hnd, ; ; ur, ) is the sixth most populous city in Pakistan, with a population of over 2.3 million. It is situated in the north-west of the country, close to the International border with Afghanistan. It is ...

, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Khan got his

telecommunications engineering Telecommunications Engineering is a subfield of electrical engineering which seeks to design and devise systems of communication at a distance. The work ranges from basic circuit design to strategic mass developments. A telecommunication enginee ...

degree from the City University of Science and Information Technology in Peshawar.

Singing career

Khan sings in the

Pashto Pashto (,; , ) is an Eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family. It is known in historical Persian literature as Afghani (). Spoken as a native language mostly by ethnic Pashtuns, it is one of the two official langua ...

language started formally in 2013. He performed at an international Sufi concert in

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...

. He paid tribute to the Sufi poet

Rahman Baba Abdur Rahmān Momand ( ps, عبدالرحمان بابا; 1632–1706) or Rahmān Bābā ( ps, رحمان بابا), was a renowned Pashtun Sufi Dervish and poet from Momand Agency in Peshawar during the Mughal era. He, along with his contemp ...

in his video entitled "Malang Abdur Rahman". He sold the gun for his first video. At the start, he was not allowed from his family to proceed with his music career, but later they accepted his efforts for Pashto music. In the grand event at Baacha Khan Trust with the eve of Re-Singing Ghani Khan, Ali Baba Khan performed with live band and got praised from audience very much. Ali Baba Khan was the first to sing a celebrated poem of Ghani Khan ''Za yaw mast shan lewantoob yam'' in the genre of

Sufi rock Sufi rock or Sufi folk rock is a subgenre of rock music that combines rock with classical Islamic Sufi music traditions. It emerged in the early 1990s and became widely popular in the late 1990s in Pakistan and Turkey. The term "Sufi rock" was c ...

. He also introduced his Pure Sufi Rock Band first time in KPK while performing live in Bacha Khan Markaz. Khan is the pioneer of Sufi rock genre in

music. His bandmates are Ali Baba Khan, Jerry Micheal, Joel Micheal, Ostad Mohsin, Qazi Umar and Jalal Khan.

Popular songs

Discography

Albums

Video-only releases ** ''Tassawar'' (تصور) (2015) - The First Ever Sufi Rock Music Song written By Ghani Khan, Ali got his recognition from this song. ** ''Dozakhi'' (دوزخی) (2018)

Other music

References

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Khan, Ali Baba Living people Pakistani male singers Pashto-language singers Pashtun people People from Peshawar 1993 births