Talal Qureshi is a Pakistani musician, singer, record producer, songwriter and DJ who made his mark in electronic music.
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Wiki/Biography
Talal Qureshi was born on Saturday 2 April 1988 (age 33 years; as of 2022) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. His zodiac sign is Aries. Later his family moved to Karachi, Pakistan. When Talal was eleven years old he found a video game music generator on the PlayStation which inspired him to write music.
Physical Appearance
Height (approx): ‘5’9″
Eye color: Moss green
Family
Talal and his family lived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, before relocating to Karachi, Pakistan.
parents/siblings
Talal lost his mother in 2016.
Talal Qureshi with his mother
Talal Qureshi has a sister.
livelihood
When Talal was eleven years old, he started playing guitar, drawing patterns on a Casio keyboard, thus growing his interest in music. When Talal was thirteen, he started writing music. Talal released his first song “Phase Shift” in 2007. Talal released his debut EP (extended play) titled ‘The Equator’ in 2012 and released his second debut EP x1988 in 2013. In 2014, Quarshie released the song “Too Much to Handle”. And in the same year, he released the remix of the song “Tasveer” by Pakistani musician and YouTuber Taimur Salahuddin.
In 2015, Talal Qureshi teamed up with Adil Umar, a rapper, record producer, singer and songwriter from Pakistan, to form SNKM (Saturday Night Killing Machine), with both artists sharing production, songwriting and singing duties. Are. In 2015, Talal made his US debut at SXSM (South by Southwest) with Adil. Talal collaborated with many musicians and acted in various shows, which he continued until 2018.
In 2016, Talal produced a rap song “Jawaab De” with Faris Shafi.
Talal Qureshi’s song Jawab De
The rap song was about the consequences of military overreach, religious fanaticism and violence against civilians, minorities and women in Pakistan. There was a lot of controversy after the release of this song.
In 2018, Talal released the song “Aag” with Punjabi folk singer Naseebo Lal. Qureshi has dedicated this song to his late mother.
In 2019, Talal released the song “Mad Calls” with California-based singer Rehma.
Quercy also released “Castle of Hybrid Senses” in 2019.
In 2020, Quershi released two EPs “Achaa Vol.1 and Vol.2”.
In 2020, he released a “Constant Summer Single” featuring Natasha Noorani.
In 2021, Talal Qureshi released the first single from his debut album, a track titled “PAISA”, the music video of which was created by Arham Ikram and Rohani. In 2021, Talal collaborated with Rehman Ashfar aka Manu for the song “5 am”. The song was written, composed and performed by Talal Qureshi and Manu.
Talal produced a song “Sweetu” in 2021.
with sweetu @hassanrahim x @manusmusicDirected by @chaiandkimchi https://t.co/xvnrdrczw3 pic.twitter.com/4zX7jjTbK2
– Talal Qureshi (@talalqureshi) 23 June 2021
In 2021, Talal released the song Paisa.
Talal Qureshi was also a part of Coke Studio, where he performed with musicians like Atif Aslam and Faris Shafi.
it is cold pic.twitter.com/GNZSvjwVwu
– Talal Qureshi (@talalqureshi) 27 October 2021
Atif Aslam, Talal Qureshi, Faris Shafi for Pakistan @coke studio https://t.co/ZCM4kM2Ahe
– Talal Qureshi (@talalqureshi) 24 October 2021
controversies
In 2016, Talal Qureshi released a rap song “Jawab De”, which was about religious fundamentalism, violence against civilians and women in Pakistan. It was released on YouTube in November 2016, but was later banned by YouTube Community Guidelines. This song was also censored on the media.
Facts/General Knowledge
- In an interview, Talal said that his tracks are played on heavy rotation in the UK and BBC Asian networks and are also featured on radio stations in India, Finland, Austria, Iceland, Germany, Japan and Belgium.
- Being an electronic musician, Talal expressed his desire to create an electronic music industry in Pakistan.
- Talal organizes most of his shows himself because according to Talal, sponsored shows are hardly possible for an artiste in a country like Pakistan.
- Talal Qureshi was called the voice of the future by Bobby Friction, an electronic DJ on East Village Radio and an inexhaustible list of BBC channels.
- According to Talal, he likes to experiment with traditional sounds.
- In an interview, Talal discussed people’s perception that an artist can only be creative when he takes drugs. According to Talal it is not important for artists to take drugs or alcohol to be creative, hence he quoted
I have been doing music for 12 years and doing it in moderation. Wherever I’m playing there’s a lot of ganja and hashish floating around. I don’t know about any other medicine. And people tell producers to make acid or ecstasy so they can start being creative, but I don’t need hash or weed to make music.
- According to Talal, he is not a party lover, whenever he is in Islamabad he attends shows of Pakistan DJ Network.
- Qureshi quoted in discussion of Pakistan music industry
The only problem with Pakistan’s music industry is that they want to serve the commercial public, and the audience expects you to keep certain things traditional; They want you to represent Pakistan. That’s all they want in music. Pakistan is more focused on the traditional side – they like acoustic stuff, folk stuff. Pakistani musicians like to add all the traditional instruments in every track. “We should add stringed instrumentWe should add sitar, we should add flute, we should add…. [laughs] Every single instrument.” I’m trying to change the whole scene here. I’m experimenting a lot and playing traditional music with traditional instruments as well.
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