Zoheb Hassan to revive ties with India’s music world

LONDON: Zoheb Hassan, brother of legendary Pakistani pop singer late Nazia Hassan, will visit India to revive his connections with the music world, his mother said on Monday.

“Zoheb would soon be going to India to revive his connections in the music world,” Hassan’s mother, Muniza Basir said.“I am glad that he has gone back to music as music is his first love. Loosing a sister like Nazia and giving up music was catastrophic for Zoheb,” she said. While Nazia Hassan became famous singing  ‘Aap jaisa koi’ from the Hindi film Qurbani in 1980, Zoheb gained fame with her in the album ‘Disco Deewani’, 26 years ago.

The title track became a number one hit in India and Pakistan and also topped music charts in several Latin American countries and the Middle East.

Zoheb, who had given up music for quite some time, has now come out with ‘Kismet’, which has become a hit within two weeks of its release in Pakistan with a sale of over 50,000 CDs, Muniza said. Nazia Hassan joined the UN in 1991 as an intern and then went on to work in the UN Department of Political and Security Council Affairs. She died of lung cancer in London in August 2000 at the age of 38.