Wajiha Naqvi

Wajiha Naqvi is a multidisciplinary artist ~ singer, composer and song-writer from Karachi, Pakistan. With a background in the anthropology of sacred music, she is also a music researcher and writer. While she trains in North Indian classical music, her own musical style includes influences from world music, raga-rock, soul and western blues. She was featured in Coke Studio Pakistan Season 11 as one of the backing vocalists and was one of the lead female artists for Coke Studio Pakistan 2020. Her new Live EP ‘Hijrat’ (meaning migration in Urdu) is a musical project that aims to build bridges and transcend borders by celebrating the songs and languages of the diverse and vibrant cultural landscape of South Asia. Since COVID- 19 has severely restricted physical travel, we hope to take our listeners through a musical journey in 6 different languages (Persian, Pashto, Bengali, Sindhi, Urdu, Old Hindi) spoken across the region. If music is the universal language of mankind, each song weaves through common tales of love, separation, hope and belief. Hijrat is a celebration of both our commonality and uniqueness. This project features Wajiha Naqvi on vocals who also curated and conceptualized this EP accompanying her is Jasir Abro who arranged the set and played lead guitar, Umair Dar produced and played the acoustic guitar, Irfan Khan on bass and on Percussions Aziz Kazi. This is a live studio performance, performed at A for Aleph in Karachi, Pakistan and was originally performed as part of the opening of the Women of the World Festival 2021.