Ali Zafar Musical artist

Ali Zafar (Punjabi, Urdu: علی ظفر‎; born as Ali Mohammad Zafar on 18 May 1980), is a Pakistani music composer, singer-songwriter, painter and actor. He started his singing career with the song Jugnuon Se Bhar Le Aanchal in the film Shararat, directed by Pakistani actress and director Samina Peerzada but made a big mark with his first single Channo from his first album Huqa Pani that sold over five million copies worldwide. The album turned out to be one of the biggest hits ever in Pakistan with Channo topping the charts all the way for a long time.Zafar began his acting career with Bollywood film Tere Bin Laden, which was moderately successful at the box office, and for which he was nominated for Filmfare Best Male Debut Award. In 2011, Zafar appeared as a guest in Yash Raj's Luv Ka The End and received his second commercial success with his next release—the romantic comedy Mere Brother Ki Dulhan. Zafar went on to win Stardust Award for Superstar of Tomorrow – Male. Zafar starred in a number of commercially successful films like London, Paris, New York (2012), Chashme Baddoor (2013) and Total Siyapaa (2014).Zafar has won three Lux Style Awards, three Indus Music Awards, three MTV Style Awards and one Stardust Awards. In 2012, Zafar was awarded by Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Awards in India. In 2013, Zafar was voted as the "Sexiest Asian Man on the Planet" based on a worldwide poll conducted by the British weekly newspaper Eastern Eye.

Personal facts

Ali Zafar
Birth dateMay 18, 1980
Birth place
Pakistan , Punjab Pakistan , Lahore

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Musical artist

Career started2003
BackgroundSolo singer
genre
Electronic music
Folk music
Pop music
Classical music
Sufi rock
instrument
Guitar
Keyboard instrument
Singing
record label
Frank Finn
Sony Music Entertainment
Universal Records
Fire Records (Pakistan)
ALIF (Liberate Attack of the Feminist Infantry)

Ali Zafar on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://twitter.com/AliZafarsays
  2. http://www.alizafar.net