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Call of music
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Adeel is the latest Pakistani musician to come to India
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Lure of India Adeel
His debut album was released only a while ago, but he is not new to fame. Pakistani musician Adeel’s popularity has more to do with his chocolate looks than his voice. Not to say he doesn’t sing well, but it were his looks that first got
Adeel the ticket to the glamour world. It was a trip to a haircutting salon that landed him the plum modelling assignment to be the brand ambassador for Pepsi in Pakistan. That was 2003.
“I always wanted to take up music seriously as a career. At the age of eight, my father gifted me a small keyboard for doing well in my exams. That was my first stint with music. I went on to form a band called Rooh in my college. But being born into a highly educated family, my parents were very clear that studies came first and that I should become a doctor. So I went to study dentistry at King Edwards Medical College. But one-and-a-half years later, I left it once the Pepsi offer came my way,” says the 23-year-old.
Debut album
But Adeel couldn’t stay away from music for too long. Not wanting to make a career in modelling, he started to work on his debut album, Koi Chehra. “The lure was irresistible, as the brand was big and the ad film was being directed by Prahlad Kakkar. But I knew music is what I wanted. Also, at that time I didn’t have enough money to record an album. Modelling also means good money,” clarifies the singer, who has been learning classical music for the past three years.
A self-confessed romantic, Adeel says Koi Chehra is all about love. “As such it is a pop album, but there’s a love balladand a Sufi song. I feel at my age love takes priority and everything is so romantic. May be as I grow as an artiste, I will choose more mature subjects,” says the ardent fan of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, A. R. Rahman and Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy.
In India to promote his 12-track album, released worldwide by Tips, Adeel confesses that the market in India is huge and that’s primarily the reason why he is releasing his album in India first and not in his home country. “Pakistani artistes are very popular with the Indian audience, much more than they are back in our country.”
With his kind of looks, entry into Bollywood wouldn’t be very difficult. Is he game? “Why not? Bollywood always fascinated me. The medium is big,” points out Adeel.
MANGALA RAMAMOORTHY
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