Tina Sani is a Pakistani singer. She is one of the favorite ghazal singers of posh urban Pakistan. She is known for singing the poetry of Faiz Ahmed Faiz.
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Tina Sani was born on Saturday, 20 November 1954 (age 69 years; as of 2023) in Dhaka, East Pakistan (present-day Dhaka, Bangladesh). His zodiac sign is Scorpio. At the age of 11, due to her father’s transfer, she moved with her family to Kabul, spending her teenage years in Kabul, Afghanistan. During his time in Kabul, he attended an international American school. Later she moved to Karachi. He completed his schooling from Karachi American School. He studied graduation in commercial arts. Tina’s father was a trained sitar player and encouraged Tina to learn classical music. He began his training in classical music from Ustad Nizamuddin Khan, son of Ustad Ramzan Khan of the Delhi Gharana, and later improved his skills under the guidance of Ustad Chand Amrohavi. Tina also received special training from ghazal maestro Mehdi Hasan.
Physical Appearance
Height (Approx): 5′ 5″
Hair Color: Gray
Eye colour: black
Family
parents and siblings
Tina Sani’s father Nisar Sani worked in an oil company and her mother was a housewife.
husband and children
Tina Sami is married to Pakistani banker Tahir and they have a son, Nasir Siddiqui, born in 1996. Talking about how she met her husband, Tina said,
Tahir was a banker and I first met him when he came to our house to meet my father for a business project. When I took a loan from Tahir’s bank to set up a studio, we became very good friends. There was no romance involved in our relationship. However, that friendship soon turned into a lifelong commitment and a beautiful bond that has only grown stronger with time.
livelihood
In 1980, when Tina Sani was training under Ustad Nizamuddin Khan, producer Ishrat Ansari approached Tina to sing in a new television program he was starting. This was a program for students. The aim of the program was to introduce a new singer every week. Tina participated in the program and sang the Punjabi song Akhan Cham Cham Vasiyan, for which she had been training for a long time. After the program, Tina Sani became famous and her singing career took off. His second song, Khari Neem Ke Neeche, a folk song from Thar, became another big hit. Khari Neem Ke Neeche was an Urdu song which was the title song of a television drama. After the success of her second song, Tina was signed by EMI, a Pakistani recording company.
Tina Sani used to play sitar in her younger days
She was influenced by famous ghazal singers like Mehdi Hassan, Malika Pukhraj, Begum Akhtar, Mukhtar Begum and Farida Khanum, but has her own style of singing. According to Tina, she never really liked ghazals, and was more influenced by nazms and western music, she also said,
For a while I thought I was going to represent crisp classic music but I evolved myself out of it. Ghazal was never my favourite. It was always poetry. For me, Nazm was the perfect blend of a dialogue I wanted to have. It’s almost like a musical statement with a slight touch of music.”
Tina Sani at her home in Pakistan
In 1985, Pakistani actor and musician Arshad Mehmood offered her to sing a poem by Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz. He sang one of the famous songs of the poet ‘Mere Dil Mere Musafir’, which became a hit. She became popular after singing Faiz’s poems including Bahar Aayi and Bol Ke Lab Azad Hain Tere. After singing Faiz’s poetry, Tina Sami presented poems of many popular poets including Zauq, Ghalib, Mir Taqi Mir and Jalaluddin Rumi. In 2013, Tina Sani sang Faiz’s Mori Araj Suno (Listen to my requests) for Coke Studio Season 3 with a reading by Pakistani composer Areeb Azhar.
Tina Sani in Coke Studio
Tina Sani has performed her music all over the world. In 2010, she performed in Ireland where she sang Allama Iqbal’s “Shikwa Jawab-e-Shikwa” with Irish musicians. Tina Sani performed with Jagjit Singh in several concerts across India to celebrate the life of Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz. In 2016, Tina Sani was part of the Lahore Music Meet, during which she conducted panel discussions, workshops and storytelling sessions. She has sung many songs for Pakistani TV 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 Hasan-e-Persifani Medal by the tenth President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf.
- In 2011, she was honored with the Outstanding Performance Award by the 12th President of India, Pratibha Patil, during the Faiz Ahmed Faiz centenary celebrations.
- In 2004, he was awarded The Pride of Performance Award by the Government of Pakistan.
- In 2017, she was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Lux Style Awards.
Favorite
- Western Singer: Adele, Barbra Streisand
- Songs: Country Roads by John Denver, Bubble Mora by Chitra Singh and Jagjit Singh, Kora Kagaz Tha by Lata Mangeshkar and Sudesh Bhosle
- Singer: Mehdi Hasan Sahab
Facts/General Knowledge
- Talking about her reason for becoming a singer in an interview, Tina Sani said,
When I started doing music, I did not want to become a singer. It was just because I loved music, because my father loved music and there was the great classical maestro, Nizamuddin Khan Sahab, who was fortunately around. It’s just that I had a good voice and everyone told my father that I should learn classical music. My dad loved classical music and I was my dad’s favorite. I will do anything to make her happy. But when the maestros came, I had no idea what the etiquette of learning music was. Until then, I didn’t understand why my father or anyone who listened to classical music would nod in appreciation. It all looked the same to me. I grew up largely on Western music. I was a big Barbra Streisand fan.
- In March 2023, Tina Sani was featured on Spotify EQUAL’s digital billboard in Times Square, NYC and her song ‘Dasht-e-Tanhai’ was featured on Spotify’s EQUAL Pakistan playlist.
Tina Sani’s performance at Times Square in New York
- In March 2023, a video of Tina Sani went viral on social media in which she was seen singing Faiz Sahab’s ghazal for Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s son-in-law Shoaib Hashmi.
Singer Tina Sani sang Faiz Sahab’s ghazal for Shoaib Hashmi (son-in-law of Faiz Ahmed Faiz), who passed away a few days ago. Very touching moment.😓#फीढ़_अहम्द_फीढ#तीनाथानी #शेब_हुआशमी
— ज़ुद मुगल. , 🖋️ Zahid Mughal (@zahidRMirza) 20 May 2023
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