Tina Sani is a Pakistani singer. She is one of the most popular ghazal singers in the fashionable cities of Pakistan. She is famous for singing the poetry of Faiz Ahmed Faiz.
Wiki/Biography
Tina Sani was born on Saturday, November 20, 1954 (age 69; as of 2023) in Dhaka, East Pakistan (now Dhaka, Bangladesh). Her zodiac sign is Scorpio. When she was 11 years old, her family moved to Kabul due to her father’s transfer, and she spent her teenage years in Kabul, Afghanistan. While in Kabul, she studied at an international American school. Later, she moved to Karachi. She completed her education from the American School of Karachi. She studied commercial arts. Tina’s father was a trained sitar player and encouraged Tina to study classical music. She began studying classical music with Ustad Nizamuddin Khan, son of Ustad Ramzan Khan, Delhi’s Gana, and later at Ustad He improved his skills under the tutelage of Ustad Chand Amrohvi. Tina also received special training from ghazal master Mehdi Hassan.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′ 5″
Hair color: gray
Eye color: black
family
Parents and siblings
Tina Sani’s father, Nisar Sani, works in an oil company and her mother is a housewife.
husband and children
Tina Sami is married to Pakistani banker Tahir and they have a son, Nasir Siddiqui, born in 1996. Speaking about how she met her husband Tina, she said:
Tahir was a banker and I first met him when he came to our house to meet my father for some business project. We ended up becoming very good friends when we took a loan from Tahir’s bank to buy the studio I was building. There was nothing romantic in our relationship. However, this friendship soon turned into a lifelong commitment and a beautiful bond that only grew stronger over time. ”
Profession
In 1980, when Tina Sani was training under Ustad Nizamuddin Khan, producer Ishrat Ansari Tina was approached to sing on a new TV show he was about to start. This is a project for students. The purpose of the show is to introduce a new singer each week. Tina participated in the show and sang a Punjabi song “Akhan chham chham Wassiyan” for which she had been training for a long time. After the show, Tina Sani became famous and her singing career took off. Her second song “Khari Neem Kay Neechay”, a Thar folk song, also became another hit song. Khari Neem Kay Neechay is an Urdu song that is the theme song of a TV series. After the success of her second song, Tina signed with EMI Pakistan.
Tina Sani played sitar as a young girl
She is influenced by famous ghazal singers such as Mehdi Hassan, Malika Pukhraj, Begum Akhtar, Mukhtar Begum and Farida Khanum, but has her own singing style. According to Tina, she was never really a ghazal and was more influenced by Nazim and Western music, adding,
For a while I thought I would represent crisp classical music, but I grew away from that. Ghazal has never been my favorite. It was always Nazm. For me, “nazm” was the perfect combination of dialogue that I wanted to do. It’s almost like a musical narration with a little musical undertone. “
Tina Sani at home in Pakistan
In 1985, Pakistani actor and music composer Arshad Muhammad invited her to sing “Nazm” by Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz. She sang a famous song by poet Meray Dil Meray Musafir, which became an instant hit. She became popular for singing Faiz’s poems including Bahaar Aayi and Bol ke lab azad hain Terey. After singing Faiz’s poetry, Tina Sami sang the works of many popular poets, including Zawuk, Ghalib, Mir Taqi Mir and Jalaluddin Rumi. In 2013, Tina Sani sang Faiz’s “Mori Araj Suno” (Hear My Request) in Coca-Cola Studio Season 3, alongside a reading by Pakistani musician Arieb Azhar.
Tina Sani at Coca-Cola Studios
Tina Sani performs her music all over the world. In 2010, she performed in Ireland, singing Allama Iqbal’s “Shikwa Jawab-e-Shikwa” with Irish musicians. Tina Sani has performed with Jagjit Singh in several concerts across India in memory of Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz The life of Faiz Ahmad Faiz). In 2016, Tina Sani participated in the Lahore Music Gathering, where she moderated panel discussions, workshops and storytelling events. She has sung many songs for the Pakistani television and film industry including PTV’s “Moorat”, Hum TV’s “Bari Aapa” and ARY Zindagi’s “Bahu Begum”.
Awards and Honors
- In 2003, Tina Sani was awarded the Hassan Persifani Medal by Pervez Musharraf, the tenth president of Pakistan.
- In 2011, she was awarded the Outstanding Performance Award by Pratibha Patil, the 12th President of India, during the centenary celebrations of Faiz Ahmed Faiz.
- In 2004, she was awarded the Pride of Performance Award by the Government of Pakistan.
- In 2017, she won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Lux Style Awards.
Favorites
- Western singer: Adele, Barbra Streisand
- Songs: Country Roads by John Denver, Babal Mora by Chitra Singh and Jagjit Singh, Kora Kagaz Tha by Lata Mangeshkar and Sudesh Bhosale
- Singer: Mehdi Hassan Sahib
Facts/Trivia
- Tina Sani said in an interview why she became a singer:
When I started making music, it wasn’t to become a singer. It was just because I loved music, because my father loved music, and luckily, there was a great classical Ustad Nizamuddin Khan Sahab around. It was just that I had a great voice and everyone would tell my dad that I should study classical music. My dad loves classical music and I’m my dad’s pet. I would do anything to please him. But when Ustad came over, I had no idea what the etiquette was for learning music. Only then did I understand why my father or anyone who listened to classical music would nod in approval. It all sounds the same to me. I pretty much grew up listening to Western music. I’m a huge admirer of Barbra Streisand. “
- In March 2023, Tina Sani appeared on Spotify’s EQUAL digital billboard in Times Square, New York, and her song “Dasht-e-Tanhai” was featured on Spotify’s EQUAL Pakistan playlist.
Tina Sani’s feature in Times Square, New York
- In March 2023, a video of Tina Sani went viral on social media, in which she asked Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s son-in-law Shoaib Shoaib Hashmi sings Faiz Sahib’s ghazal.
Singer Tina Sani sang Faiz Sahib’s ghazal song to Shoaib Hashmi (son-in-law of Faiz Ahmad Faiz) who passed away a few days ago. A very sad moment.😓#فٌٶ_فف٠_ففف#🇨🇳🇨🇳 #嗗嗗_嗗嗗嗗
💐💕💐💕 pic.twitter.com/otIJHUaJpN
– ♂️♂️. . 🖋️Zahid Mughal (@zahidRMirza) May 20, 2023
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Source: HIS Education