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15th May 2005, 16:15
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Zoheb Hassan.
Anyone here remember Zoheb Hassan the younger brother of popstar Nazia Hassan who died from cancer a few years back?.They made a great team and had many fans like myself until Nazia's death.Anyone know what happened to Zoheb and if he's still making Music?.
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15th May 2005, 18:06
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16th May 2005, 05:55
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zohaib has made limited appearances in recent music shows...and he still looks pretty good! I have only heard him sing his popular songs in the shows, but I've heard that he is working on a solo album these days...but nothing else as to release date etc...
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16th May 2005, 06:00
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an article on Zohaib
Zoheb Hassan FROM DISCO DEEWANE TO E-2001 (The Magazine SHE Pakistan) ON HIS BACKGROUND Tell us something about yourself? Zoheb: I was born in Karachi on 18th November 1966 and my star sign is Scorpio. I graduated from the American school and went on to do economics and financial management and later on went into certified accountancy. Most of my student life has been spent in Britain. People who don’t really know us do not know that I come from a very conservative family. My paternal grandfather Syed Sagheer-ud-din Hassan was the mayor of Dehli before partition. We belong to a Syed family, my father’s name is Syed Baser-ud-din Hassan… my actual name is Syed Zoheb-ud-din Hassan. Then from my mother’s side my grandfather S. M Chaudry was a Vice Admiral in the Navy and a much respected man. In the early days it was a big thing to be a Vice Admiral as there were hardly any people at that post. I got married 3 years back to Gina and have a two-year-old daughter Alyana. ON HIS MUSICAL CAREER Coming from a conservative background, how did music happen? Zoheb: music for us, that is me and Nazia, no actually for me, was by default. I had no intentions and if I had it my way I would have never gone into music. Though I have been very lucky in this field. As for coming from a conservative family, I remember my grandfather from my father’s side did not speak to us for 6 months when we did Aap Jaisa Koi. She just does not believe in music, so then my parents, nazia and I, all went to her to apologize. And then gradually when she saw the publics acceptance, and at the same time with my parents assurance that we won’t leave our education and that music is hobby not a profession, she to an extent then let us do what we wanted. And over a period of a time I think she also liked the fact that her grandchildren were known. You mentioned that you weren’t interested in music as a career so what motivated you to take it on? Zoheb: yes, I was never interested in music. It was basically my parents who always felt that I should do something in the performing of arts because I was very shy and introverted kind of a person, who wouldn’t even come out of his room. My parents felt that it is very important for a person to express themselves and not be shy, because this world is not for shy people. So they put me in as many performing art situation as possible. I did public speaking, drama and singing. Besides these things I was also made to audition for the children’s program Kaliyon ki mala under the charge of Sohail Rana. When my mother came to know of the auditions, she asked Nazia and me if we would like to participate. Nazia was always an extrovert, star from day one, and I was always behind the scenes. I wasn’t interested at all. I was more interested in playing tennis all the time but finally she convinced me. In fact, forced me into giving an audition. I gave the audition but failed, I remember Sohail Rana suggesting to mother to put me in something else. Some thing that would hold my interest. The producer of the program Shireen Khan, however, knew my mother very well, so thought her I was given another chance and put in on a provisional basis as they were short of one child. I was made to sit in the front row as I was chubby and cute and I did not have to do anything, just sway. I was very happy and content doing that but one day Sohail Rana pointed at Nazia and asked her to do a solo of the song Sang Sang Chaltey Rehna. My sister was like, ‘yes, I will but I want to sing it with my brother’. I was cornered and put on the spot and this time it wasn’t with a group of children but alone with my sister. I sang and the people were quite amazed. They liked my singing. But I was more amazed than them, that I actually had a voice. So, this was I think the beginning of my music career…if you can call it that. Slowly and gradually I developed an interest – like on my birthday my father gave me a guitar, then later on I started playing the keyboard. Though I became more of a composer and musician, rather than a singer. I also started writing songs, in which I was always interested. Did you deliberately fail the first audition for the program? Zoheb: No, as I said, I was very shy and I sang a little bit but didn’t sing enough. The other children who were there were very talented, open and basically they’re to make a space for themselves in the program. They were trying very hard and to be honest I wasn’t trying that much so eventually failed in the audition. Which was the first song you ever wrote? Zoheb: The first sing that I wrote was Aap Jaisa Koi for the Indian film Qurbani. Of course Nazia sang that song as I could not sing. At the time my voice was also breaking, as I was around 14 years of age. The song literally revolutionized the music scene, not only out here but in all India as well... And the rest became history. It is known fact that Biddu the music director of Aap Jaisa Koi gave the two of your first break, how did that come about? Zoheb: It wasn’t Biddu who introduced us. It was Feroz Khan, the director of the film Qurbani, who gave us our first break. Biddu was the music director who was contracted to produce the song and that’s when we met him. After that we did quite a few albums with him. Biddu is very talented in what he does. From Aap Jaisa Koi onwards… Zoheb: Aap Jaisa Koi took everybody by surprise and even though it was appreciated, it was also sort of put down. At that point, people did not realize that it was going to pave the way for a complete industry, which is the pop industry now. Definitely an industry to reckon with. When we started our musical career, with our first album Disco Dewane (19800, there was a monopoly by Lata Mangeskar in India and Alamgir, Shaheki and Noor jehan in Pakistan. People had not really heard our music so they couldn’t tell. And we were basically doing what we did; there was no one to tell us what was commercially correct. In a way that was good because our music had a lot of spontaneity. Our music was fusion music, because we were living two worlds. Our music reflected what we were in the true sense. But we never actually knew the worth and value of our music, it was the companies and people who were cut to exploit it commercially, who knew the potential of it. How many albums were released and did you and Nazia do any concerts? Zoheb: We did not release a lot of albums, Hardly 4 or 5. They were Disco Deewane, Boom Boom, young Tarang, Hotline and camera. We had a lot of success with the few albums that we did do and in terms of quality we had a lot of quality material, we worked very hard. Actually harder at a time when pop music did not exist in it’s true form. Now it’s much easier for the Kids as the road has been seen paved and they have a direction to go on. We did not do as many concerts. One major convert that we did was with Amitabh Bachan, Parveen Babi and Zeenat Aman for which we went all over America. Then we also performed in Portugal, Hammersmith, Oden, and Wembley in London and Dubai’s, Al-Nasser Leisure Land. The duo of Nazia-Zoheb defined liberalism to a certain extent, what about the controversies that stemmed from it? Zoheb: we never thought about the controversies, as we were too young and basically concerned only with singing. Though we did hear people talking about as to why the two of us were singing together, as if that was wrong. All this really didn’t mean anything to us because it has no basis. But I am glad what we did; because of it a lot of liberalism and more freedom of expression came about. Our music at the time not only had musical significance, but it also had an impact on social values and norms. I think in Pakistan, what is accepted and what is not, came down to being a democracy and being able to have I would say not freedom of speech, but expression. I am not giving Nazia and myself that much credit, but I think it did help. It brought a whole new school of thought even to India, after Aap Jaisa Koi and Disco Deewane everything was ‘disco’. Now the word disco not only described ‘the music’ but it also described the cultural values. It was like a definition, and by definition ‘disco’ was freedom for the youth to express themselves. I think the youth of Pakistan to a great degree were very frustrated, as they did not have an outlet to vent their energies. Now things have changed and we even have Indian artistes coming over to perform. This is all destinies that it was Nazia and me who were lucky enough to be able to bring that about… I am happy about this fact. What did success mean to the two of you? Zoheb: we were not really affected with all the adulation. Two reasons for that: first, we were not around as we were studying abroad. Due to that we did not see the response or get any feedback, so it didn’t really strike us. Secondly, my parents, who ironically got Nazia and me into music, always maintained that our main focus and priority should be studies, rather than music. How did you handle being termed as a heart throb? Zoheb: it is a part of being known, but you really don’t think about it. As for me, I wasn’t really in touch with the public like that. I would come to Pakistan for a week or so, do six TV shows and go back. I was never actively present here to feel what is happening. But yes, I used to get a lot of fan mail, which I still do and that’s great. ON HIS SISTER NAZIA… Zoheb: Nazia was very good and sensitive person, who cared enormously about her family. And she put herself second to everything and everybody that she knew, her family or friends, and that’s the way Nazia was especially with me. In fact, in all her interview she would always say Zoheb and I. She always promoted me because there was a time when people didn’t want to hear about who I was. There was even a time when I went to India, as rightfully Nazia had the hit song Aap Jaisa Koi, but nobody wanted to know about me. It was a matter of, ‘Aap sara side pe hat jayan, tasveer Khehnchani hai’ ‘ or whatever. It was fine with me and did not affect me as such, but it affected Nazia a lot and she would say no. One could see the bond and the tie that we had when we made music. Naiza knew that we were a team and we worked together. She wanted it that way. ON ZOHEB THE BUSINESSMAN You’ve shifted your focus from music to running your event management company, why the change? Zoheb: Music has been great, an initiation point for me. It has been a platform for me to be able to talk to people and for people to listen to me. I think God has been very kind to put me in such a position. I am not saying that I am a hot shot or a big thing, but it all helps. Although I recently did a song for the SAF games, but now I am slowly changing my direction…for me music has always been second, not it is third and fourth on my list. I won’t call myself a hardcore businessman because I am not. I am doing other things, trying to handle as much as I can. We have our family business, which is the construction business, in which I am trying to find my way. Besides that, I have my production house Band H international, in which my wife also helps as a director. Here we do a lot of commercials, jingles, recording of albums for artistes, work for television and hold events like the ‘Entertainment 2001,’ our third exhibition, which was held recently in Karachi. I want to do things, which have more value in terms of what I can give back to Pakistan – like this exhibition, which has created a platform for the entertainment industry. The entertainment industry itself is a billion-dollar industry, in Pakistan it has the potential of being million-dollar industry, and so by holding E-2001, I wanted it to get the international attention. And I think we were able to achieve that to a great extent by attracting the media network and big companies like Samsung, ARY digital to the exhibit. I think we had almost 68 companies exhibiting and approximately 75,000 people visiting in the 3 days of the exhibition. This is what I want to do, that is promoting the Pakistani culture. Culturally we are very rich nation but our image is slightly negative. We would like to improve on that. I believe, we, the people, have to be honest to ourselves and look at our shortcomings, only then will we will be able to progress in life. ON THE FUTURE Zoheb: I am going to continue with what I am doing at the moment, which is my family business. Then we are doing another exhibition E-2002, at beginning of next year. So literally, 8 months left for that. There is lot of work involved; we are getting a Hollywood star and some international singers down for this event. We have already received 80 bookings from companies. The response is good and things are looking great. (By Uzma Mazhar)
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16th May 2005, 14:23
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We use to be Nazias and Zohebs neighbours in Karachi ( defence), their family looked anything BUT conservative!!!
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16th May 2005, 15:42
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#8
16th May 2005, 15:47
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Defense was(is??) posh I think ? in Karachi ie.
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16th May 2005, 18:44
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haein zushy?
what other area can be classified as 'posher' than Defence or some areas of Clifton? except for maybe KDA scheme 1 on top of the hill, and that too is quite old.
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16th May 2005, 20:08
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Quote:
I was referring to those areas myself.....
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17th May 2005, 08:27
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i thought she had leukemia, there were rumours that they both did and people made up an insane story about that
I don't suppose it was lung cancer though... she was supposedly slow poisoned (supposedly by in-laws) and she had written a letter regarding this prior to her death asking there be an autopsy etc. etc. this is wat i've heard anyway...
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