Zebunisa Bangash (born 7 March 1982), better known as Zeb Bangash, is a Pakistani singer-songwriter from Lahore, Punjab. Her family originally comes from

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. Apart from her solo career, she was the member of music group

Zeb and Haniya Zeb and Haniya ( ps, زیب اور حانیا, pronounced as "Zayb aur Haa-nee-ya") was a Pakistani music duo from Kohat, active from 2007 to 2014. The pair have sung songs in Pashto, Urdu, Dari and Turkish, combining pop with folk music to cre ...

along with Haniya Aslam who is her first cousin. She has been active since 2008 and is the first Pakistani artist who served as a music director of Bollywood movie

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, which received 18 film awards. During her career, Bangash has recorded songs in Urdu,

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, Punjabi, Turkish,

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, Saraiki and others. She has been often seen on the Pakistani television shows Coke Studio and

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Career

Zebunisa Bangash began her career with her cousin Haniya Aslam as

. They released their debut album '' Chup!'' in 2008. In 2013, Zeb did a song for the film ''

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'' and made her debut in Bollywood. She continued her solo career after Haniya left for studies in Canada. She sung for the soundtrack of ''

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'' (2014), ''

Bin Roye ''Bin Roye'' (; ) is a 2015 Pakistani romantic drama film directed by Momina Duraid and Shahzad Kashmiri. The film is produced by Momina Duraid and stars Humayun Saeed, Mahira Khan, Armeena Khan, Zeba Bakhtiar, Javed Sheikh and others. O ...

'' (2015), ''

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'' (2015), ''

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'' (2016), '' Fitoor'' (2016), '' Lala Begum'' (2016), '' Verna'' (2017), ''

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'' (2018), '' Baaji'' (2019), ''

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'' (2019) and ''

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'' (2019). She also sung the title track of television series ''

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'' which won

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for Best Original Soundtrack and

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in 2016. She has sung several songs for '' Coke Studio''., including Paimona, Chup, Chal Diyay, Bibi Sanam Janem, Tann Dolay and more. She then also performed a single in the second season ''

''. In 2019, she performed "Roshe", a Kashmiri ode to loss in CokeStudio12. Zeb Bangash is the first Pakistani artist to serve as music director of an award-winning Bollywood film; She is part of the Brooklyn-based ensemble Sandaraa, with the klezmer clarinetist/composer Michael Winograd and a number of other leading Brooklyn-based musicians.

Personal life

She married on 5 November 2017.

Discography

Soundtracks

Singles

Awards and nominations

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References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bangash, Zeb Living people Pashtun people Pakistani women singer-songwriters Musicians from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 1981 births People from Kohat District 21st-century Pakistani women singers