Muhammad Atif Aslam was
born on 12th march 1983 in Wazirabad Gujranwala. Atif's kinder garden
started in Model town Lahore at Kimberley Hall School. His first stage
manifestation was in a fancy dress show at his school when he was in
grade–1 where he performed as Imran Khan “ Captain of Pakistan Cricket
Team”. Since then cricket was like a passion to him. He was never tired
of playing cricket for hours in his car porch whether it is scorching
sun outside or even raining. At that time he did not use to listen any
kind of songs.
At the age of 9 in 1991 he shifted to
Rawalpindi/Islamabad where he continued his studies in Saint Pauls
School. He started playing Basket Ball and he used to lead his school
team for matches. Atif Aslam came back to Lahore in 1995 where he
continued his studies in Divisional Public School Model Town. For his
immense passion for cricket he was selected in his school team as a fast
bowler. Atif Aslam cleared his 10th grade in 14 years of age with a
distinctive edge that he has always been the youngest boy in the class
because of his double promotions while he was in Kimberley Hall. Atif
Aslam started his HSc in PAF College Lahore. Cricket was all the times
with him. He was in his college team as well, where he presented his
college in other cities. Beside his studies, he was putting his maximum
time in practicing for professional cricket.
During his college life
he came across with some interest in music. His eldest brother was
having a collection of more than 8,000 songs of almost all music genres.
Un-intentionally he was developing a habit of listening to all kinds of
music in his house. As a good learner he quickly grasped the control of
voice but till that time he was not interested in singing, his passion
was to enter in Pakistan cricket team as a fast bowler and he was right
on track while practicing at the net at Shapes club Lahore where Imran
Khan used to come and give tips to him for bowling. The twist in the
story comes when one day he was singing with his friends at the college
canteen. His friends insisted him to participate in the singing
competition on Independence Day celebrations at PAF College Lahore and
Sargodha in 1998. He performed there and won the competition. After HSc
Atif Joined Punjab Institute of Computer Science Gulberg Campus. This
time studies were much more demanding as compared to the previous ones.
He had to sacrifice his time for the cricket. His hobby of singing
continued when he entered the singing competition of his college. There
were a total of 8 participants .The media team entered Atif's name in
the competition at the eleventh hour and he won the competition by
singing a hit number Duur of Strings Band
He kept on winning these
competitions every semester until he announced that he will no longer
participate in next competitions so that someone else can also win the
competition. He encountered Goher at his college who had good interest
in Music & was a good, talented guitarist. Together they used to
practice a lot and started doing mini concerts for their friend. Atif
used to sing Junoon's and String's songs at the concerts. The volume of
cheers of audience kept on increasing. They performed concerts for their
college, McDonalds and some other restaurants as well. AtifAslam
recorded the legendary song “AADAT” at Mekal Hassan's Studio. Mekal
injected his professionalism in the song to make it worth listening time
after time. Atif Aslam formed the band and named the band as “JAL”
which means water, the essence of life. The song got popularity on
different musical websites on Pakistan. The song was also being on aired
on major Radio channels of Pakistan like FM100, FM 105 etc. “Umer
Anwar” from Karachi approached Atif for making the video of “AADAT”.
Aadat's video was shot in one day in a warehouse at Karachi. The basic
theme of the video was to attract people to listen to this song, which
will vanish their sorrows and then make them happy.
A girl who acted
as an angel in the video was distributing this message to people to
listen to this song. Atif was making waves in the industry. God has been
very very kind to Atif Aslam. By the Grace of God his video was
released in December on “ARY THE MUSIC” and then it rocked almost all
the channels.
Atif released his first album Jal Pari on 18th July
2004 all over the nation by the country's leading record label, Sound
Master and IC records & Alhumdolillah the results declared it as the
best selling album of the year within just 5 months of the release and
it is still continuing. Because of the eternal mercifulness of Allah who
gave the kind of continuous love of people to Atif Aslam , lime light,
interviews, fans, autographs, snaps, concerts, get-togethers, traveling
all came to him at once and Atif was really stretched up for all this
because in the mean time he had the final exams of BCS and he cleared
his Bachelorz in Computer Science ( hons) from University of Central
Punjab. Performing live is the real test of any singer and Alhumdolillah
people believe that Atif Aslam is one of the best live singers in the
nation. Atif has done hundreds of live shows with local as well as
international artists all over the globe for a lot of brands.
Atif
Aslam's song WOH LAMHEY which he sang for the Bollywood movie “ Zeher”
in 2005 is being considered among the ten best ever green songs of the
Bollywood industry doing a business of One million Dollar plus only in
India in terms of sales. This song opened the doors of bollywood for
Atif and he is now one of the few singers of the nation who are doing
play back singing in bollywood which is indeed a national pride for us.
His 2nd song in bollywood “Aadat” made people addicted to his voice in
the biggest nation of the world. Third song “Teray Bin” is also being
considered as one of the most touching and heart melting numbers of the
year 2006. One of the most rare distinctions which atif aslam earned
for Pakistan was that his 3 songs “ Aaadat , Ehsaas and Yakeen were
included in a Hollywood art movie “ MAN PUSH CART”. The movie got
tremendous response in international film festivals and won FEPRISKI
award in Europe Atif has been nominated for a number of awards
internationally during his short career which is again a matter of pride
for the nation. His song Who Lamhay made him nominated as best singer
for 2005 in almost all the film awards of bollywood including Film Fare
Awrads , Zee Cine Awards , IIFA Awards etc etc . Some of the awards he
has won are as under:
Winner OF Best Play Back SingerBest Debu Singer Sahara Sangeet Awards USA
Winner OFBest Song Best LyricistBest Composition
Most Wanted Male The Music Awards Karachi
Atif
Aslam has a long list of the people who supported him through out his
career so far and he is very grateful to them all. In Atif’s encouraging
family he has a very loving & simple mother who always prays for
his success. His father “Muhammad Aslam” is an Engineer from UET ,
recently Retired from his Public Service from Communication & Works
Department and is very happy to see the success of his youngest son.
Atif Aslam has three brothers. “Shahzad” the eldest one is an Engineer
from UET plus a photographer (www.discreet-vision.com) who keeps on
guiding Atif for the various aspects of his videos, images and tours.
The second one is “Shahbaz”, an MBA from PCBA who manages all the
concerts of Atif Aslam .He also design clothes for Atif. The third one
is Sheraz a computer Graduate from Allama Iqbal Open University, is a
great graphic designer, painter and a Webmaster and a true friend of
Atif.We all wish him the very best of luck for his musical career. He
need support, prays, best wishes from all you people. He has to go a
very long way. This is just a start. We need you guys to pray for him
that God should always be extremely kind to him.“Sitaroun say aagay
jahan aur bhi hainAbhi ISHQ k imtihaan aur bhi hain”
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