2016 — 2020
CokeStudio
Music Director across five seasons — called back each time to write and produce a selected set of songs, and given the room to write them his own way. Abida Parveen, Ali Zafar, Shafqat Amanat Ali, Aima Baig, Ali Sethi. Some of them he sang himself.
Music DirectorComposerSongwriterVocalist
The directory
Every song, season by season.
A season at a time, with every song he was music director on. Click any frame to watch it.
Season 9
2016
Brought in under Strings as one of six music directors — the first time the platform had shared the chair. Five songs, and the one that broke the million.
Three that stuck
The ones that travelled furthest.
The same job,
on a national stage.
Find the singer, then build the song around them — the work that runs from Coke Studio straight through to Pakistan Idol.