(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)
[concert] Forget Pervez Musharraf. Forget Benazir Bhutto. And forget for a moment also the Bhutto supporters who recently messed with life when the former prime minister returned.
It is not such power politicians and their big political struggles that represent the real Pakistan. Rather, it is the 34 year old Hadiqa Kiani.
Kiani, who do you ask? Who else, I answer.
In the evening 1. November enters today's foremost symbol of modern Pakistani culture John Dee, the music scene in Oslo.
Kiani is a major attraction during the increasingly global Oslo World Music Festival (OWMF). This unique music festival, which from 30 October to 4 November this year has "strong female voices" as its theme. And that will therefore reveal everything from the Iraqi-born Maqame singer Farida Mohammed Ali via Moroccan-Berber Najat Aaatabou to the Nobel Prize candidate and the Romanian-Jewish-Macedonian Esma Redzepovas' gypsy music.
Yes, and then Kiani – the pop queen from Rawalpindi, on the border with Afghanistan, now living in the cultural capital Lahore. Already as an eight-year-old, she represented Pakistan at festivals in Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria. The debut album Raaz (1996) sold half a million copies in his home country. Since then, psychology graduates Kiani have delivered bestseller on bestseller.
As early as 1997, Kiani signed an advertising contract with Pepsi Cola, as the second woman in the world – only beaten by Gloria Estafan. Last year, she received the generous Tamghhai Imtiaz Award from the Government of Pakistan, for her presentation of Pakistani culture around the world.
Her lyrics are written by her own mother. Kianis and her mother's efforts despite: Yet it is not their urban-liberal art that characterizes the northern women's main impression of Pakistani culture. But maybe soon? This fall, Kiani is releasing his fifth, but also the first completely English-language album: Rough Cut.
In collaboration with guitarist Aamir Zaki, she has songs "Spiritual Rock 'n Roll" and "City of fallen Angel". Both Kiani's lyrics, music, personality and Pakistani and global popularity tell us that this is nothing east or west, just universal cultural expression.
Kiani's modern hybrid music can be described in so many ways, not to mention her Matrix-inspired music video "Duputta". But strangely enough, the foremost OWMF attraction is also a sign that the booth "world music" is not the right one for the modern pop musician Kiani. Yes, if the term is adequate for someone, as it was recently discussed on NRK Radios Lydverket.
But there is only one way to find the answer: Go to Oslo on Thursday. Or buy Rough Cut. Pakistan will never be exactly the same.
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November 1 brings the foremost symbol of modern Pakistani culture