The fourteenth season of the
Pakistani music
The Music of Pakistan ( ur, , lit=pákistáni mosíqi) includes diverse elements ranging from music from various parts of South Asia as well as Central Asian, Middle Eastern, and modern-day Western popular music influences. With these multiple ...
television series
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Coke Studio Coke Studio may refer to:
* ''Coke Studio'' (Pakistan), a Pakistani television series featuring live music performances.
* ''Coke Studio'' (India), an Indian television series featuring live music performances.
* ''Coke Studio Bangla'', a Banglade ...
'' was produced by
Zulfiqar Jabbar Khan
Zulfiqar "Xulfi" Jabbar Khan (born 28 October 1980) is a Pakistani composer, singer-songwriter, music producer and a guitarist. Starting his career in 1994, Khan is the recipient of multiple awards in Pakistan. He is currently working on the te ...
(popularly known as Xulfi) after
Rohail Hyatt
Rohail Hyatt (Urdu: روحیل حیات) is a Pakistani record producer, Synthesizer, keyboardist, and Music composer, composer. As record producer, Hyatt is largely credited with pioneering Pakistani pop rock music by incorporating western Ro ...
stepped down from the role.
Coca-Cola
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Pakistan was the executive producer of the show. Season 14 featured 13 original songs, each with its own visuals, and ran from 14 January 2022 to 22 March 2022.
Artists
Featured artists
The lineup caters to both the older generation and the younger generation alike, offering the voices of the veterans as well as the Generation Z.
* Abdullah Siddiqui
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Abida Parveen
Abida Parveen (Urdu, sd, ; born 20 February 1954) is a Pakistani singer, composer and musician of Sufi music. She is also a painter and entrepreneur. Parveen is one of the highest paid singers in Pakistan. Her singing and music has earned he ...
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Ali Sethi
Ali Aziz Sethi (Urdu/; ; born July 2, 1984) is a Pakistani singer, songwriter, composer, and author. Sethi rose to prominence with his debut novel, '' The Wish Maker'' (2009). In 2012, Sethi began focusing on his musical career and made his film ...
* Ameer Baksh
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Arooj Aftab
Arooj Aftab (; born March 11, 1985) is a Pakistani singer, composer, and producer based in the United States. She works in various musical styles and idioms, including jazz, minimalism, and neo-Sufi.
Aftab was nominated for the Grammy Award fo ...
* Asfar Hussain
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Atif Aslam
Atif Aslam is a Pakistani playback singer, songwriter, composer, and actor. He has recorded many songs in both Pakistan and India, and is known for his vocal belting technique.
Aslam predominantly sings in Urdu, but has also sung in Hindi, ...
* Butt Brothers
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Eva B
Eva B is a Pakistani hip hop rapper and singer. She comes from a Baloch family, and writes and sings in Balochi and Urdu. She is known for her appearance on the music television series ''Coke Studio'' in 2022 with her song "Kana Yaari".
Care ...
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Faisal Kapadia
Strings () was a Pakistani pop/rock band composed of two members, plus four live band members from Karachi, Pakistan. The band was initially formed by four college students—Bilal Maqsood (vocals and guitars), Faisal Kapadia (vocals), Rafiq ...
* Faris Shafi
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Hasan Raheem
Hasan Raheem (born August 2, 1998) is a Pakistani singer, songwriter and rapper. He is known for his subtle, laid-back R&B, hip hop and indie pop styles of music.
Early life and education
Raheem was born in 1998. He belongs to a Shina family h ...
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Justin Bibis
Justin Bibis (; translation: "Justin Sisters" or "Justin Girls)" is a Pakistani music duo of sisters Sania Sohail and Muqadas Jandad, who found fame as an Internet sensation for their viral video of the song "Baby (Justin Bieber song), Baby" by ...
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Kaifi Khalil
Kaifi Khalil ( ur, ; born 2 September 1996) is a Pakistani singer-songwriter and composer based in Karachi. He rose to prominence in 2022 after his debut in Coke Studio (Pakistani TV program), ''Coke Studios Balochi song "Kana Yaari". His s ...
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Karakoram
The Karakoram is a mountain range in Kashmir region spanning the borders of Pakistan, China, and India, with the northwest extremity of the range extending to Afghanistan and Tajikistan. Most of the Karakoram mountain range falls under the ...
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Meesha Shafi
Meesha Shafi ( ur, ) is a Pakistani-born Canadian singer, actress and model.[Momina Mustehsan
Momina Mustehsan (; born 5 September 1992) is a Pakistani singer, musician, and social activist. In 2017, BBC named her one of the 100 Women (BBC), 100 most influential women, and the following year, ''Forbes'' featured her among its "30 Under ...]
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Naseebo Lal
''Nasibo'' (also spelled as ''Naseebo'') is a 1994 Indian Punjabi-language film, directed by Manmohan Singh, starring Raj Babbar, Kavita Kamal (Kimi Verma), Preeti Sapru, Amitoj Maan and others. Gurdas Maan gave a special appearance.
Plot
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Quratulain Balouch
Quratulain Balouch ( ur, ) is a Pakistani American singer-songwriter. Also known as QB or the Humsafar Girl, she became popular for her title track " Woh Humsafar Tha" in Hum TV's serial '' Humsafar''.
Career
Balouch has no formal music edu ...
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Shae Gill
Anushae Babar Gill (Urdu, Punjabi language, Punjabi: ), popularly known as Shae Gill, is a Pakistani singer and cover-artist, mostly known for her Punjabi language, Punjabi duet song "Pasoori" with Ali Sethi.
Early life
Shae Gill was born an ...
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Soch
''Soch'' is a 2002 Hindi language crime thriller mystery film starring Sanjay Kapoor, Raveena Tandon, Arbaaz Khan, Danny Denzongpa and Aditi Govitrikar among others. ''Soch'' is a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 film '' Strangers on a Train ...
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Talal Qureshi
Talal Qureshi is a Pakistani record producer, singer, songwriter, and DJ.
Life and career
Talal Qureshi was born on 2 April 1988 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Qureshi came across the video game MTV Music Generator on PlayStation which pushed him to s ...
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Talha Anjum
Talha Anjum (born 3 October 1996) is a Pakistani Urdu rapper, songwriter and lyricist. He was born and raised in Karachi and is popularly known for being a member and co-founder of the Hip hop music, hip-hop band Young Stunners along with T ...
* Wahab Bugti
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Young Stunners
Young Stunners are a Pakistani hip hop duo formed in Karachi in 2012. The duo is composed of Talha Anjum (rapper) and Talhah Yunus. Much of their music is produced by Jokhay.
Talha Anjum and Talhah Yunus rose to fame as rappers on YouTube afte ...
* Zain Zohaib Qawwals
Musicians
* Action Zain
* Annan Noukhez
* Arsalan Hasan
* Asad Ali
* Asif Ali
* Awais Kazmi
* Aziz Kazi
* Bilawal Lahooti
* David Joseph
* Faiz Qazi
* Gul Muhammad
* Haider Abbas
* Haider Ali
* Haroon Daniel
* Javed Iqbal
* Joshua Amjad
* Kami Paul
* Mairah Khan
* Melvin Arthur
* Muzammil Hussain
* Nijat Ali
* Omair Farooq
* Payam Mashrequi
* Rohail Nawab
* Saad ul Hasan
* Sherry Khattak
* Turaab Khan
* Veeru Shan
* Waqas Hussain
* Yusuf Ramay
* Zain Peerzada
* Zyad Ahmed Tariq
Art director
* Hashim Ali
Production
The revamp of season 14 celebrated the connection between music, aesthetics, and attitude. Instead of following an episodic format, the season featured individual songs, each with its own unique video directed by some of
Pakistan
Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 24 ...
's most innovative directors, such as Jamal Rahman, Kamal Khan, Murtaza Niaz, and
Zeeshan Parwez
Zeeshan Pervez (Urdu: ذیشان پرویز) is a Pakistani Music Artist.
Zeeshan Parwez is a filmmaker / music producer based in Peshawar, Pakistan and he has been responsible for producing tracks for a couple of underground bands and some mainst ...
.
Spotify
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was the official music streaming partner of Season 14.
Xulfi was the producer of season 14, under his production company Giraffe Pakistan, and
Abdullah Siddiqui
Abdullah Siddiqui is a Pakistani singer, songwriter, and producer. He made his breakthrough appearance on ''Nescafé Basement season 5'' with his song "Resistance", and followed it up by making his album debut with ''Metannoya'' in 2019. He fur ...
, Action Zain, Adnan Dhool and Sherry Khattak served as the associate music producers. Speaking at the launch of ''Coke Studio Season 14'', Xulfi said,
The season was distributed by Coca-Cola Pakistan. Vice president Coca-Cola Pakistan & Afghanistan Fahad Ashraf said:
Spotify Pakistan was the digital streaming partner for Coke Studio Season 14.
Khan FM, artists and label partners for Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh at Spotify said:
Songs
The season consisted of 13 original songs, with all of them produced by Xulfi.
Controversy
An up-and-coming artist from
Umerkot
Umerkot (formerly known as Amarkot) is a city in the Sindh province of Pakistan.
The local language is Dhatki, which is one of the Rajasthani languages of the Indo-Aryan language family. It is most closely related to Marwari. Sindhi, Urdu and ...
, Nirmala Maghani, accused Xulfi of plagiarism in melody of "Tu Jhoom" without crediting her, from a sample which she sent him as an audition in June 2021 and he had not replied. On the other hand, Xulfi and ''Coke Studio'' denied, claiming the song was in making since May 2021. However, seniors like
Yousuf Salahuddin
Yusuf ( ar, يوسف ') is a male name of Arabic origin meaning "God increases" (in piety, power and influence).From the Hebrew יהוה להוסיף ''YHWH Lhosif'' meaning "YHWH will increase/add". It is the Arabic equivalent of the Hebrew name ...
,
Salman Ahmad
Salman Ahmad ( ur, , born 12 December 1963) is a Pakistani born-American musician, rock guitarist, physician, activist, occasional actor and professor at the City University of New York.
He earned nationwide popularity in 1998 for his uni ...
and musician Beena Raza came in to support Maghani, who said she would take this matter to court. On 24 January 2022, her lawyer, Faraz Faheem Siddiqui, sent a legal notice to Xulfi to give her credit, otherwise a suit of will be charged.
Notes and references
Notes
References
External links
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2021 Pakistani television seasons