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- Pioneers of Sufi rock with an original sound, they achieved success during the early 1990s. Its members were signed to major record label EMI Records and afterwards released their self-titled debut album Junoon in 1991.
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May 21, 2015 · By now the band had also become famous for pioneering the Sufi-Rock genre, a claim strengthened by Sayonee. There are others gems here as well, like the catchy Yaar Bina driven by...
May 25, 2015 · Recently, in an interview that he gave to the BBC, Salman Ahmed – former guitarist of (the now-defunct) "Sufi-Rock" group, Junoon – claimed that his band’s 1996 pop anthem, Jazba Junoon’...
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In December 2007, Junoon performed at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo. In May 2008 Junoon defied death threats from militants to perform in the ethereal valley of Kashmir. The first ever rock concert to be held in Srinagar. 1. Jon Pareles of the New York Times describes Junoon as “South Asia’s answer to Santana,” and the Wall Street Journal ...
Those three things were what Salman Ahmad knew, upon seeing Led Zeppelin perform at Madison Square Garden in June 1977, he wanted to do with music. “By the end of the night my shoulders, head, and feet were in a state of fana,” or mystical ecstasy, he writes in his memoir Rock & Roll Jihad: A Muslim Rock Star’s Revolution. “I didn’t just like rock ...
And changing the world? That, you could say, is Salman’s everlasting project even two and half decades after the birth of Junoon. For testimonials, ask those trying to stamp out polio, or a Pakistani politician, or any of the multiple artists Salman has worked with and generously promoted. Ask his students at Queens College, or the audiences in Ame...
Time changed those impressions – but nothing changed them as much as working with Salman, and studying his music. I first came to Junoon through a Pakistan-born friend who knew of my interest in music, South Asia and faith. I knew Salman’s particular blend of all three – plus the fact he’d spent a good chunk of time in America – would make for a st...
I never really left the world I came to love during the writing of that book. Nowadays, when the murderers of the Islamic State claim their latest victim in the name of their beliefs, I hear a riposte not just from Salman, but of millions of Muslims, in Junoon’s song “Dosti” – “friendship.” When I read of the sickening attacks on polio workers by t...
Culture humanizes what politics demonizes, as Salman himself often says. And what culture Salman and his band mates have produced! This peace-mongering band of Muslim (and at least one non-Muslim) brothers has put out an ever-growing and diversifying aural feast of rocking jams and mystic musings over the past 25 years. One got a taste of just how ...
Salman has always been at the forefront of junooni explorations into rhythm and melody. But his recent work, especially, calls to mind a modern-day mushaira, or poetic symposium. There he is performing with qawwali great Rahat Fateh Ali Khan on the hypnotic track “Gharya.” Now he’s reaching new heights in the West by recording with veterans Peter G...
So here’s to the next 25 years of mystical, magical music-making. You may call Salman a dreamer. But he’s not the only one. Robert Schroeder is a writer who lives in Bethesda, Maryland. He helped Salman write Rock & Roll Jihad and has written essays, profiles, travel pieces and reviews for The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The W...
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Junoon's roots stretch back to Tappan, New York, in the 1970s. Salman Ahmad left Lahore, Pakistan, for New York with his family when he was eleven, and received his baptism in rock music when a friend offered him a ticket to a Led Zeppelin concert.
Jan 14, 2019 · Having found a foothold in the mid-90s amid Pakistan’s burgeoning pop industry, Junoon’s music was an eclectic mixture of rock, qawwali-infused vocals and a dash of Punjabi folk. The diversity in...
Junoon is arguably the most successful Pakistani musical group in history and has toured extensively around the world, including a performance at the renowned European rock festival, Roskilde, in June 2000, where they shared the stage with Pearl Jam, Iron Maiden, Travis, and Queensryche.
Having released seven studio albums, the band boasts a prolific career and widespread international popularity as they pioneered the now established genre of sufi rock by popularizing...
