Pakistani The album ‘Music in Covid Times’ produced by the retired bureaucrat Music He has won three awards in the world’s leading Global Music Awards.
According to Sharif Awan, the creator of this album The classicsthis album consists of 38 tracks of semi-classical and regional music Corona was developed during the global pandemic.
Sharif Awan is a retired bureaucrat and has been pursuing his passion for raga and ragini for over 30 years.
Under Sharif Awan Sahib’s Tehbeeh Foundation, the classical music of the subcontinent is known as ‘Indus Raag’ and has won many international awards before.
The album was released in April this year, and was soon nominated at the Global Music Awards where it won three awards.
After receiving this news, we took time to reach Sharif Awan’s house and requested an interview, which was gladly accepted.
My first question to Sharif Awan was that when and how did he accomplish this feat because we already know following receiving the awards.
Sharif Awan smiled and said that the days of the global epidemic of Corona were very difficult days. During this time our artistes did not give up their work, it is the music of the days that they composed, arranged and performed which was quite a difficult task.
‘Because it’s a classical raga, its production is completely different from normal music production, in that the artist does all the work, the producer only does the fingerpicking.’
He said that he has won Global Music Award and Independent Music Award before.
Explaining the awards, he said, ‘The Global Music Awards have a lot of categories, some of which we sent our nominations in, and three of them are Best Album, Best Producer and Best Creation. have met.’
Sharif Awan further explained that ‘The Global Music Awards is different from the Grammy Awards in that these awards do not measure popularity, but according to them, their measure is only the quality of art, and the judges are very big names. He has also won several Grammy Awards. The system of these awards is very transparent.’
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He said that ‘the tradition of classical music in the Indian subcontinent is one of the most reliable traditions in the world, we include Ghazal in this and we include regional music in this, a specific market. is for, but it has no competition with commercial music.’
On the question of the extinction of classical music in Pakistan, he said, “This problem is in the whole world, but actually we should appreciate our artists who have kept it alive despite all the difficulties and it is our duty to Let us keep this human heritage alive but also promote it.’
Talking regarding his album, Sharif Awan said, ‘Some of its tracks have been recorded in India, while some have been recorded in London and Germany. I don’t consider it Pakistani or Indian music, it is our common cultural heritage.’
According to him, ‘This album is available in many bookstores in Pakistan where it has a booklet and songs, but the entire album is available on YouTube which is not even monetized so that people can easily watch it.’
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2024-07-12 23:34:52
