Natasha Noorani

Zainab Zulfikar

Natasha Noorani has a diverse range as a singer-songwriter, playback singer and voice-over artist. While pursuing contemporary pop music, she has also been training in khayal gayaki and was awarded the Goethe Talents Scholarship in 2019. Noorani released her debut EP ‘Munaasib’ in 2018 which explored her diverse range as a singer-songwriter exploring her R'n'B, neo-soul and progressive rock influences.

She is currently undertaking a project in the preservation of oral narratives and sound recordings pertaining to Pakistani music. Noorani's multi-faceted approach towards Pakistani music enables her to serve as a liaison between the artists, the Government of Pakistan and various cultural bodies such as UNESCO and British Council. Noorani is the Co-Founder and Festival Director of premier music festival cum symposium, Lahore Music Meet (LMM), which has been taking place annually since 2015.

News

Boiler Room's First-Ever Pakistan Edition To Feature Jaubi, Natasha Noorani, Tollcrane, Ustad Noor Bakshsh & More

Prominent event platform Boiler Room announced its first-ever edition in Pakistan, which will take place on June 20 in Karachi. The host and broadcasters will offer a notably diverse lineup of the...

Takatak Reimagines 'Flash Your Bones' With Natasha Noorani & Talal Qureshi

Lahore-based metal/prog-rock group Takatak just released a rework by producer Talal Qureshi and singer-songwriter Natasha Noorani of their single 'Flash Your Bones' from the 2020 album...

Natasha Noorani Embraces Pop & Pastel On 'Choro'

A mainstay of Pakistan's independent music scene, Natasha Noorani just released 'Choro', the first single off her upcoming album 'Ronaq', with a sophisticated music video. A multi-faceted artist of...

Releases Of The Week: noni-mouse, Natasha Noorani, Goya & More

With 'Releases Of The Week', Wild City handpicks and highlights our favourite new music from the previous week by artists from South Asia and its diaspora. If you’d like us to listen to your music,...

Releases Of The Week: Taba Chake, The Illegal Project, Kayan & More

‘Chalo’ Highlights South Asian Music With Compilation Featuring Riz Ahmed, Kavya, Ahmer & More

‘Chalo’, the multi-tiered work by journalist Dhruva Balram (who previously released charity compilation ‘aaj kal’) and Assam-born US-based artist Jitwam and his label The Jazz Diaries, just...

Features

2021 In Review

2021 entered with nearly all of the problems of 2020 and nearly none of the creative energy that those problems had inspired the previous year. While the start of the pandemic and its lockdowns last...

A Library, A Time Machine, A Contact Zone: Natasha Noorani's Peshkash Maps Postcolonial Pakistani Music

Back in 2014, a bunch of rare Films Division-era films resurfaced online with Alexander Keefe’s 'Sarkari Shorts', calling my attention to the absence of systematised archival efforts in South Asia...