 Strings is
a Pakistani
pop band comprising two members, Bilal
Maqsood and Faisal
Kapadia. They were the chosen one to feature on
the soundtrack of Spiderman 2 and recorded special songs
for films like Shootout At Lokhandwala and Zinda.
Strings started with four
college students (Bilal, Faisal,Rafiq and Kareem) in 1990,
when they came out with a self-titled
album. After "Strings 2" in 1992, the band was
dismembered. Eight years later, Bilal and Faisal
reformed the group, coming out with their album "Duur"
and then "Dhaani" both proving national and
international hits.
Strings' roots go back to the
time when a new wave of Pakistani
pop music was breaking on the local media beachhead,
post-Nazia
and Zoheb, -Alamgir
and -Muhammad
Ali Shehki. The music videos, in their most
primitive form, had started creating a commotion in the
local music industry, changing the way music was
listened to forever. They scored hits, played shows and
enjoyed the lifestyle of post-'80s pop
stars. Then, it seems, they disappeared from the
face of the pop universe. After a lengthy gap, they
returned almost erasing from memory the period of
hibernation with a string of jangly, synthesized hits
and snappy videos.
Strings is one of the few Pakistani
bands/singers to achieve international fame. Their
popularity is attributed to the significantly different
approach to their music
and lyrics.
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