Ali Sethi

Born in Indore, Pakistan, Ali Sethi is one of those singers who not just makes a mark in the music industry, but also never fails to deliver them in the most striking style. This graceful musician did not have any sort of plan to make hypnotizing melodies in the first place. Like every other teenager, he too dreamt of becoming an exceptional graduate from Harvard University and in order to evolve as an accountant or an engineer. But the universe did have greater plans for him.

Coming from a background where his journalist parents often got death threats from their haters, Ali was not aware of how the world had different opinions about people belonging to the Muslim community, especially in foreign countries. Sethi then began finding answers to this strange idea of people, and that happened when he started to see the ancient ghazals and qawwalis, which was granted to them by their ancestors in a different glint. So Ali put aside his technical studies and dived deep into research about classical music. He began aware of the content at this point, that Ali even wrote a semi-biographical book called The Wish Maker that was about life in Pakistan. Then he began to train under the celebrated singers Farida Khanum Farida Khanum was born in 1929 in Kolkata and is c >> Read More... and Naseeruddin Saami, and he ventured the art of learning the rigid form of music, the ragas. The element which made Ali's music distinct from all others was that he was very civil to include his experimentation form into the traditional music form.

At first, Ali was apprehensive about how people would react to his composition, but never did Ali except his creations to go beyond the skies and make it a sensational hit globally. He became more known to the world when he made his entry into the cinema world in The Reluctant Fundamentalist in 2013 and even got ample nominations for his singles. Now, we know how the Pakistani celebrities, both men and women alike, are known for their intense and respectable clothing choices. But anyone who knows Ali Sethi has always admired him for his extraordinary dressing style, which he showcases him as a modern star with traditional affluence. For a world that wants innovation at every turn, Ali Sethi never wanes to thrill his fans.