The first season of the

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. The production team included Rohail Hyatt as the executive producer along with Umber Hyatt and Nofil Naqvi being the producers of the show. Natasha De Souza and Naseer-ud-din Wasif served as production team members.

Artists

Artists featured in the show included,

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan Rahat Fateh Ali Khan ( Punjabi, ; born 9 December 1974) is a Pakistani Singer, primarily of Qawwali, a form of Sufi devotional music. Khan is one of the biggest and highest paid singers in Pakistan. He is the nephew of Nusrat Fateh Ali Kha ...

Ali Azmat Ali Azmat Butt (born 20 April 1970) is a Pakistani singer-songwriter, musician and actor. He is best known as the lead singer for the influential Sufi Rock band Junoon and for his subsequent solo career. In 2001, he became part of the first ...

Ali Zafar Ali Zafar ( pa, ; born 18 May 1980) is a Pakistani singer-songwriter, model, actor, producer, screenwriter and painter. Zafar started out on Pakistani television before becoming a popular musician. He later also established a career in Bo ...

, Ustaad H. B Gullo, Saieen Tufail Ahmed, Ahsan Farooq,

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, Saba & Selina and Mauj.

Featured Artists

*Mauj *Ustad Hussain Baksh Gullo *

*Sain Tufail *

The show also featured a house band which had some of the high-profile musicians in the country including, Omran Shafique on guitars, Kamran Zafar on bass guitars,

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on keyboards and turntables, Louis 'Gumby' Pinto on drums. Other members of the house band included, Saba Shabbir, Athar Sani and Selina Rashid on backing vocals along with Babar Khanna, Zulfiq 'Shazee' Ahmed Khan and The Abdul Latif Band on percussions.http://mp3hungama.com/music/index.php?action=album&id=8139

Backing Vocals

*Saba Shabbir *Selina Rashid

House Band

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: Kamran "Mannu" Zafar *Coordinator & Flute: Rahat Ali *DJ and Synthesizers: Zeeshan Parvez *

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: Louis "Gumby" Pinto *

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: Omran "Momo" Shafique *

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: The Abdul Latif Band, Babar Khanna & Shaizi

Episodes

The first episode aired on 8 June, followed by the second episode being aired on 29 June. The third episode was aired on all locals channels on 20 July and the show came to an end on 4 August, which also rebroadcast three songs, "Sar Kiye" by

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" by Ali Azmat featuring Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and "Allah Hu" by Tufail Ahmed and Ali Zafar, from the previous episodes.

Artists

Featured Artists

Backing Vocals

House Band

Episodes

List of Songs

Notes

References

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