Hadiqa Kiani Biography
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Born: 11 August 1974 (Age 37)
Citizenship: Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan
Occupation: Singer, Songwriter, Model, philanthropist
Labels: Sound Master, Lips Music, Fire Records (Pakistan), Hi-tech Music
Total Album Released
Raaz – Released in 1995.
Roshni – Released in 1998.
Rung – Released in 2002.
Rough Cut – Released in 2007.
Aasmaan – Released in June 2009.
Early life of Hadiqa Kiyani
Hadiqa Kiani was born in Rawalpindi, Pakistan and grew up in Lahore. She is the third of three children to Khawar, a principal of a local government girls school. When she was three years old, her father died from natural causes, and thus the family were left to fend for themselves. Kiani has spoken about the difficult experiences of not having a relationship with a father during her childhood. Her mother, was nevertheless, very brave throughout their upbringing, she added. Khawar began working as the principal of a government all-girl school while Kiani and her older siblings were growing up. After her father’s death and the resulting loss of financial support, the family had to use the school as a temporary home. Kiani and both her siblings had a talent for music, and so her mother enlisted her in the Pakistan National Council of the Arts. Kiani then performed in front of a crowd of a thousand people at Liaqat Memorial Pindi Hall.
At an early age, she began showing an interest in singing and music. Whilst living in Rawalpindi, she went on to study at Viqar-un-Nisa Noon Girls High School Pindi. She represented Pakistan in International Children Festivals in Turkey, Jordan, Bulgaria, and Greece, winning various medals along the way. She also used to be on Sohail Rana’s Rang Barangi Dunya; a weekly musical show for children. Kiani thanked her family for being supportive in her singing career, citing them as “patient and enthusiastic with a heart of gold”.
The family moved to Lahore when she was in eighth grade. She enrolled at Kinnaird College and due to her exceptional academic performance, she earned a Masters degree in Psychology. Kiani still dreamed to become an singer, and signed on to Lips Records in 1994.
Personal life
Kiani is single and resides in Pakistan with her mother, Khawar, who has been paralyzed since 2006 and an adopted son, whom she named Naaday Ali, which means the qualities of Hazrat Ali. Hadiqa has had a special liking for this name ever since she first heard it. Hadiqa adopted Naaday in 2005 from Edhi Home, post-Earthquake. “I need a child and the child (needs) a mother,” she said when adopting the child. On the same day Kiani made an official announcement of the adoption on Geo News political talk show, Capital Talk. Later that year, Hadiqa got married to a UK based Afghani Businessman, Syed Fareed Sarwary. Their Nikah was a private event and only very close family members were present at the occasion. However, the marriage did not work out and in 2008 Hadiqa filed for divorce.
Carrier of Hadiqa Kiyani
Raaz First Album Of Hadiqa Kiyani in 1995
Hadiqa began recording her debut album in late 1994. The album titled Raaz was released in mid-1995. Kiani had written, composed and produced most songs for the album whilst recording in Karachi Studios. The first single of the album Jeevan, for which she penned the lyrics, was released alongside the album. The album spawned a string of radio tunes and generally had positive reviews.
Still, Raaz performed well. The album’s success was highlighted by it being mentioned in an article which recapitulated the major events in Pakistan’s music history. The article stated “Hadiqa Kiani successfully releases debut album Raaz”. She also won “NTM Viewer’s choice award” for the best female Singer of Pakistan in 1995.
The success of Raaz was highlighted by being mentioned in an article which recapitulated the major events in Pakistan’s music history. After two years, the album had sold over 700,000 copies, domestically, whilst gathering over 1 million copies worldwide. Kiani released her second single Yaad, following the success of her first single. The single was well-received, though was not a seller, unlike her first single. She released four more singles, neither benefiting her album.
Roshani Second Album Of Hadiqa Kiyani in 1998
Hadiqa Kiyani’s massive success in 1999 was highlighted when she won PTV World Viewer’s Choice Award for the best female singer in 2000. She also released a seventh single off the album, “Intezaar”.
In 1998 Kiani began working on her second music album, Roshni (Light). The album was dedicated to her nephew Sonu ( her elder sister’s son ). Kiani takes good care of her nephew and considers him a significant person in her life. The first single from the album, “Tu Nawa Tu Sada” was released before the album was released. Kiani then released a second single, “Inteha-e-Shauq”. It was designated the official theme song for the Pakistani Cricket team for the Cricket World Cup that year. Both songs, being patriotic, gained favorable reviews, however “Inteha-e-Shauq” was much more successful for Kiani.
On 1 November 1998 Kiani released `Roshni’. Initial album sales were powered mostly by “Inteha-e-Shauq”, which made the final listing of the album along with “Tu Nawa Tu Sada”.
Kiani’s success got her signed by “UniLever” for celebrity endorsement of Lipton Yellow Label in 2001. In 2002, she was signed again by “UniLever” for Sunsilk Shampoo. Throughout 2001 and 2002, she performed live concerts in US, Canada, UK, Middle East, Far East, Australia, Norway, Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey on multiple occasions.
Rung Third Album Of Hadiqa Kiyani in 2002
Hadiqa Kiyani released her third album Rung (Colors) in September 2002, for which she’d chosen the album title herself. Prior to Rung’s release, Kiani sang an OST for a drama called Cheray. The song also made the final listing on Rung.
The first single released from Rung was “Yaad Sajan”. The song helped the album sales propel throughout September and August 2002 and was an instant hit. It did not however make it as big as “Dupatta” or “Boohey Barian”, but generally got great appreciation.
She returned to promote the album in June 2003, almost 10 months after she’d released “Yaad Sajan” with a new single “Ranjhan” and several stage performances and tours around the country. She then released other singles off the album throughout 2003 and 2004. These included “Jogi Bun Kay Aa”, “Mahi”, and “Dholan”.
Where Kiyani released multiple videos for her previous albums within months after the album release, she did not do so with Rung because of a personal crisis in her life. Her marriage was seeing problems. Issues with her marriage saw her being removed from the spotlight for the rest of 2002, and early 2003. Rung’s sales slowly declined since no other single had been released. Her divorce was finalized in March 2003. She decided to take a few months off from her music career then. As a result, Rung’s sales seemed stalled.
Single Track Mehar Maa
Hadiqa Kiyani began working on a single-song project with UK based producer Khiza on his album Loyal To The Game, in 2006. The lead single Mehr Ma featured Kiani’s vocals. She also appeared in the music video directed by Sohail Jawed. The song was a massive success in Pakistan, and was seen as a great turn for Kiani after her ballads in Rung. Kiani performed the single at Lux Style Award’s and was considered the best performer of the night in reviews. The success of the single reached to a point, that it succeeded her successful single Boohey Barian in mid-2009.
Rough Cut Fourth Album Of Hadiqa Kiyani in 2007
In 2007, Kiani released her fourth studio album, Rough Cut, a collaboration with Aamir Zaki. The album had seen frequent delays in its release both due to Kiani’s busy schedule in 2005 and 2006 and because Zaki had moved to Canada while the album was being recorded. With the release of `Rough Cut’, Kiani became the first mainstream Pakistani artist to release a complete English Album.It is also her only album thus far which her website has officially put up for sale online.
In April 2007 Kiani released the first single for the album, titled “Living This Lie”, a song which talks about the stressful life of being a star. The same week, Kiani was named “Hotstepper of the week” for a Karachi-based magazine. The magazine also stated that ultimately, as long as Kiani is around, there is still hope for women in the patriarchal music world of Pakistan.
Kiani’s second single that was released from the album is titled “All The Same”. Rough Cut failed to perform on the charts and did not sell as much as Kiani’s older works. Many experts have said that since an overwhelming majority of people in the country do not understand English the album did not sell as well. It has not yet been confirmed whether Kiani will release a third single from the album. However, there are rumors that the track “City of Fallen Angels” will get a video release in which Karachi will be the city referred to in the song.
The single titled “Living This Lie” got nominated for “Best English Song” for “The Musik Awards” in 2007. Due to the emergency situations occurring in the country in 2007, however, the awards were called off. Kiani also got nominated for Best Female Singer in the same awards.
Aasman Fourth Album Of Hadiqa Kiyani in 2009
In June 2009, Kiani switched record labels to Fire Records and released a new album titled “Aasmaan” (translated: sky) on 17 June 2009. It is Kiani’s first album in local languages since her release of “Rung” back in 2002. In the album, she sings in Urdu, Punjabi, Hindko, Pashto, Persian, and many other dialects. One song in the album has vocals featured by her elder brother (and manager) Irfan Kiani. She has also collaborated with UK producer JKD(Jawad Hyder)& rapper NAS-T on two tracks of the album, “Sohnya” and “Dil Mera”. She also sings a Pashto duet with Pashto singer Irfan Khan.
The first single of the album is “Sohnya”. The official video of “Sohnya” was premiered a day before Kiani released the album. Since then the song+video has stayed on the Aag10 Charts for over a month thus Kiani received a Shield from Aag10 for being the Artist of the Month.
Within the next month Kiani released her second single from the album titled “Tuk Tuk”. The video was directed in India by Sajan Agarwaal. This was Kiani’s first video ever to be shot in India. Rightfully, the video communicates a strong Bollywood theme; Kiani told her fans of her Facebook site that the video was a Parody of “A Filmy Muhallaha”.
Worldwide Performances and Awards
Her increasing popularity was further highlighted in 1997 when Kiani became the first Asian singer ever to perform on the British National Lottery Live BBC1 (estimated viewership 16.6 million). Later on she worked on two more shows with Bally Sagoo for BBC 2 and ITV before moving to perform in the US. Her US tour covered 15 states and a show in Canada too. The same year Kiani performed on several other international events such as “Celebration Hong Kong 97″, alongside other singers like Lisa Stansfield, Wet Wet Wet, Michael Learns to Rock, All-4-One and The Brand New Heavies. By the end of the year she became the first Asian female singer ever to be signed by Pepsi Cola International. She is also the second female in the world to achieve this, with the first being Gloria Estefan.
Kiani did not release any single to promote Rung sales in 2005 and 2006. However, she continued to build on her success by touring heavily these years. Most of the time she was the official representative of Pakistan appointed by the government.
On 11 August 2005, Kiani performed in Nagoya for the Prime Minister of Japan Mr.Junichiro Koizumi. Kiani was invited to perform in Toronto on 14 Aug 2005 by The Pakistani Consulate. She performed in Houston on 13 August 2005. The show was at Sam Houston Race Park, and it was attended by over 15000 people. Chief guest of the show was Sheila Jackson Lee who is a member of the US House of Representatives. Kiani was asked to take out the lucky draws of PIA and she announced the names of the lucky winners. She then performed at the “Mets” in “Shea Stadium” New York on 18 August 2005. She also performed at the Pakistan Day Parade in New York on 28 August 2005.
She performed in Malaysia on 2 October 2005 at the newly built Convention Centre in Kualalampur downtown. The Honorary Prime Minister of Pakistan Mr.Shaukat Aziz was the chief guest of the show. The show was part of Expo 2005 in Malaysia. Important business and political personalities from both countries attended the show. She sang a Malay song, not a Pakistani song.
Pakistan Idol and television work
Citizenship: Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan
Occupation: Singer, Songwriter, Model, philanthropist
Labels: Sound Master, Lips Music, Fire Records (Pakistan), Hi-tech Music
Total Album Released
Raaz – Released in 1995.
Roshni – Released in 1998.
Rung – Released in 2002.
Rough Cut – Released in 2007.
Aasmaan – Released in June 2009.
Early life of Hadiqa Kiyani
Hadiqa Kiani was born in Rawalpindi, Pakistan and grew up in Lahore. She is the third of three children to Khawar, a principal of a local government girls school. When she was three years old, her father died from natural causes, and thus the family were left to fend for themselves. Kiani has spoken about the difficult experiences of not having a relationship with a father during her childhood. Her mother, was nevertheless, very brave throughout their upbringing, she added. Khawar began working as the principal of a government all-girl school while Kiani and her older siblings were growing up. After her father’s death and the resulting loss of financial support, the family had to use the school as a temporary home. Kiani and both her siblings had a talent for music, and so her mother enlisted her in the Pakistan National Council of the Arts. Kiani then performed in front of a crowd of a thousand people at Liaqat Memorial Pindi Hall.
At an early age, she began showing an interest in singing and music. Whilst living in Rawalpindi, she went on to study at Viqar-un-Nisa Noon Girls High School Pindi. She represented Pakistan in International Children Festivals in Turkey, Jordan, Bulgaria, and Greece, winning various medals along the way. She also used to be on Sohail Rana’s Rang Barangi Dunya; a weekly musical show for children. Kiani thanked her family for being supportive in her singing career, citing them as “patient and enthusiastic with a heart of gold”.
The family moved to Lahore when she was in eighth grade. She enrolled at Kinnaird College and due to her exceptional academic performance, she earned a Masters degree in Psychology. Kiani still dreamed to become an singer, and signed on to Lips Records in 1994.
Personal life
Kiani is single and resides in Pakistan with her mother, Khawar, who has been paralyzed since 2006 and an adopted son, whom she named Naaday Ali, which means the qualities of Hazrat Ali. Hadiqa has had a special liking for this name ever since she first heard it. Hadiqa adopted Naaday in 2005 from Edhi Home, post-Earthquake. “I need a child and the child (needs) a mother,” she said when adopting the child. On the same day Kiani made an official announcement of the adoption on Geo News political talk show, Capital Talk. Later that year, Hadiqa got married to a UK based Afghani Businessman, Syed Fareed Sarwary. Their Nikah was a private event and only very close family members were present at the occasion. However, the marriage did not work out and in 2008 Hadiqa filed for divorce.
Carrier of Hadiqa Kiyani
Raaz First Album Of Hadiqa Kiyani in 1995
Hadiqa began recording her debut album in late 1994. The album titled Raaz was released in mid-1995. Kiani had written, composed and produced most songs for the album whilst recording in Karachi Studios. The first single of the album Jeevan, for which she penned the lyrics, was released alongside the album. The album spawned a string of radio tunes and generally had positive reviews.
Still, Raaz performed well. The album’s success was highlighted by it being mentioned in an article which recapitulated the major events in Pakistan’s music history. The article stated “Hadiqa Kiani successfully releases debut album Raaz”. She also won “NTM Viewer’s choice award” for the best female Singer of Pakistan in 1995.
The success of Raaz was highlighted by being mentioned in an article which recapitulated the major events in Pakistan’s music history. After two years, the album had sold over 700,000 copies, domestically, whilst gathering over 1 million copies worldwide. Kiani released her second single Yaad, following the success of her first single. The single was well-received, though was not a seller, unlike her first single. She released four more singles, neither benefiting her album.
Roshani Second Album Of Hadiqa Kiyani in 1998
Hadiqa Kiyani’s massive success in 1999 was highlighted when she won PTV World Viewer’s Choice Award for the best female singer in 2000. She also released a seventh single off the album, “Intezaar”.
In 1998 Kiani began working on her second music album, Roshni (Light). The album was dedicated to her nephew Sonu ( her elder sister’s son ). Kiani takes good care of her nephew and considers him a significant person in her life. The first single from the album, “Tu Nawa Tu Sada” was released before the album was released. Kiani then released a second single, “Inteha-e-Shauq”. It was designated the official theme song for the Pakistani Cricket team for the Cricket World Cup that year. Both songs, being patriotic, gained favorable reviews, however “Inteha-e-Shauq” was much more successful for Kiani.
On 1 November 1998 Kiani released `Roshni’. Initial album sales were powered mostly by “Inteha-e-Shauq”, which made the final listing of the album along with “Tu Nawa Tu Sada”.
Kiani’s success got her signed by “UniLever” for celebrity endorsement of Lipton Yellow Label in 2001. In 2002, she was signed again by “UniLever” for Sunsilk Shampoo. Throughout 2001 and 2002, she performed live concerts in US, Canada, UK, Middle East, Far East, Australia, Norway, Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey on multiple occasions.
Rung Third Album Of Hadiqa Kiyani in 2002
Hadiqa Kiyani released her third album Rung (Colors) in September 2002, for which she’d chosen the album title herself. Prior to Rung’s release, Kiani sang an OST for a drama called Cheray. The song also made the final listing on Rung.
The first single released from Rung was “Yaad Sajan”. The song helped the album sales propel throughout September and August 2002 and was an instant hit. It did not however make it as big as “Dupatta” or “Boohey Barian”, but generally got great appreciation.
She returned to promote the album in June 2003, almost 10 months after she’d released “Yaad Sajan” with a new single “Ranjhan” and several stage performances and tours around the country. She then released other singles off the album throughout 2003 and 2004. These included “Jogi Bun Kay Aa”, “Mahi”, and “Dholan”.
Where Kiyani released multiple videos for her previous albums within months after the album release, she did not do so with Rung because of a personal crisis in her life. Her marriage was seeing problems. Issues with her marriage saw her being removed from the spotlight for the rest of 2002, and early 2003. Rung’s sales slowly declined since no other single had been released. Her divorce was finalized in March 2003. She decided to take a few months off from her music career then. As a result, Rung’s sales seemed stalled.
Single Track Mehar Maa
Hadiqa Kiyani began working on a single-song project with UK based producer Khiza on his album Loyal To The Game, in 2006. The lead single Mehr Ma featured Kiani’s vocals. She also appeared in the music video directed by Sohail Jawed. The song was a massive success in Pakistan, and was seen as a great turn for Kiani after her ballads in Rung. Kiani performed the single at Lux Style Award’s and was considered the best performer of the night in reviews. The success of the single reached to a point, that it succeeded her successful single Boohey Barian in mid-2009.
Rough Cut Fourth Album Of Hadiqa Kiyani in 2007
In 2007, Kiani released her fourth studio album, Rough Cut, a collaboration with Aamir Zaki. The album had seen frequent delays in its release both due to Kiani’s busy schedule in 2005 and 2006 and because Zaki had moved to Canada while the album was being recorded. With the release of `Rough Cut’, Kiani became the first mainstream Pakistani artist to release a complete English Album.It is also her only album thus far which her website has officially put up for sale online.
In April 2007 Kiani released the first single for the album, titled “Living This Lie”, a song which talks about the stressful life of being a star. The same week, Kiani was named “Hotstepper of the week” for a Karachi-based magazine. The magazine also stated that ultimately, as long as Kiani is around, there is still hope for women in the patriarchal music world of Pakistan.
Kiani’s second single that was released from the album is titled “All The Same”. Rough Cut failed to perform on the charts and did not sell as much as Kiani’s older works. Many experts have said that since an overwhelming majority of people in the country do not understand English the album did not sell as well. It has not yet been confirmed whether Kiani will release a third single from the album. However, there are rumors that the track “City of Fallen Angels” will get a video release in which Karachi will be the city referred to in the song.
The single titled “Living This Lie” got nominated for “Best English Song” for “The Musik Awards” in 2007. Due to the emergency situations occurring in the country in 2007, however, the awards were called off. Kiani also got nominated for Best Female Singer in the same awards.
Aasman Fourth Album Of Hadiqa Kiyani in 2009
In June 2009, Kiani switched record labels to Fire Records and released a new album titled “Aasmaan” (translated: sky) on 17 June 2009. It is Kiani’s first album in local languages since her release of “Rung” back in 2002. In the album, she sings in Urdu, Punjabi, Hindko, Pashto, Persian, and many other dialects. One song in the album has vocals featured by her elder brother (and manager) Irfan Kiani. She has also collaborated with UK producer JKD(Jawad Hyder)& rapper NAS-T on two tracks of the album, “Sohnya” and “Dil Mera”. She also sings a Pashto duet with Pashto singer Irfan Khan.
The first single of the album is “Sohnya”. The official video of “Sohnya” was premiered a day before Kiani released the album. Since then the song+video has stayed on the Aag10 Charts for over a month thus Kiani received a Shield from Aag10 for being the Artist of the Month.
Within the next month Kiani released her second single from the album titled “Tuk Tuk”. The video was directed in India by Sajan Agarwaal. This was Kiani’s first video ever to be shot in India. Rightfully, the video communicates a strong Bollywood theme; Kiani told her fans of her Facebook site that the video was a Parody of “A Filmy Muhallaha”.
Worldwide Performances and Awards
Her increasing popularity was further highlighted in 1997 when Kiani became the first Asian singer ever to perform on the British National Lottery Live BBC1 (estimated viewership 16.6 million). Later on she worked on two more shows with Bally Sagoo for BBC 2 and ITV before moving to perform in the US. Her US tour covered 15 states and a show in Canada too. The same year Kiani performed on several other international events such as “Celebration Hong Kong 97″, alongside other singers like Lisa Stansfield, Wet Wet Wet, Michael Learns to Rock, All-4-One and The Brand New Heavies. By the end of the year she became the first Asian female singer ever to be signed by Pepsi Cola International. She is also the second female in the world to achieve this, with the first being Gloria Estefan.
Kiani did not release any single to promote Rung sales in 2005 and 2006. However, she continued to build on her success by touring heavily these years. Most of the time she was the official representative of Pakistan appointed by the government.
On 11 August 2005, Kiani performed in Nagoya for the Prime Minister of Japan Mr.Junichiro Koizumi. Kiani was invited to perform in Toronto on 14 Aug 2005 by The Pakistani Consulate. She performed in Houston on 13 August 2005. The show was at Sam Houston Race Park, and it was attended by over 15000 people. Chief guest of the show was Sheila Jackson Lee who is a member of the US House of Representatives. Kiani was asked to take out the lucky draws of PIA and she announced the names of the lucky winners. She then performed at the “Mets” in “Shea Stadium” New York on 18 August 2005. She also performed at the Pakistan Day Parade in New York on 28 August 2005.
She performed in Malaysia on 2 October 2005 at the newly built Convention Centre in Kualalampur downtown. The Honorary Prime Minister of Pakistan Mr.Shaukat Aziz was the chief guest of the show. The show was part of Expo 2005 in Malaysia. Important business and political personalities from both countries attended the show. She sang a Malay song, not a Pakistani song.
Pakistan Idol and television work
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