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APR 16 - The Strings have half a dozen concerts lined up in U.S.A this summer. They will
also be performing in Delhi, according to a press release. The
U.S. tour is named ZINDA HOON TOUR 2006 - USA.
Duo Bilal Maqsood and Faisal Kapadia will perform in Houston on
April 29, then in Minneapolis on May 5, in Chicago on May 6, and
in Washington DC on June 2. Other concerts to be held are in San
Jose, Atlanta, Miami, New York, the dates of which will be
announced later.
In India they will be performing two concerts prior to their
departure for U.S.A. One will be at
the Manipal Institute of Technology on April 19 and the other in Delhi at the Indian Institute of
Planning & Management on April 22. Manipal is situated in
the rocky hinterland of the fabled Malabar (Konkan) western coast of
India in the state of Karnataka.
The tour is probably named
after a song, ‘Zinda hoon’ (Yeh hai meri kahani) (I’m alive;
This is my story) the group did for an Indian movie, ‘Zinda’
directed by Sanjay Gupta. The movie was released a month or so
ago.
More on Strings:
 Strings
is a popular Pakistani Pop Band - new wave of
Pakistani Pop Music which surfaced on the local media beachhead,
post-Nazia and Zoheb, post-Alamgir and post-Muhammad Ali Shehki.
Strings
started with four college students (Bilal, Faisal, and two
friends) in 1990, when they came out with their album "Strings".
After "Strings 2" in 1992, the band was dismembered. Eight years
later, Bilal and Faisal reformed Strings, coming out with
their album "Duur" and then "Dhaani". In 2005, Strings won MTV
Asia's best artist award and sang "Ye hai meri kahani" for the
Indian movie "Zinda". Ironically they were nominated as an
Indian band.
The original soundtrack of the movie Spiderman 2 includes a song
by Strings titled Na jaane kyun (I don't know why). The
band was approached by Columbia Pictures after they had signed a
contract with Sony Music. Although the song has been credited in
various places to be in Hindi, in reality it is in Urdu.
(DesPardes News)
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