1. Alam Lohar was a Pakistani Punjabi folk music singer.
13 Facts About Alam Lohar
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Alam Lohar is widely regarded as the greatest singer of Panjabi folk music.
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Alam Lohar is credited with creating and popularising the musical term Jugni.
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Alam Lohar was born in 1928 in Achh, near Kotla Arab Ali Khan, Gujrat District of Punjab, British India.
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Alam Lohar was born into a Punjabi Muslim family of Lohars.
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Alam Lohar modified a new style of singing the Punjabi Vaar, an epic or folk tale which made him popular when he toured villages and towns in the Punjab region.
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Alam Lohar is famous for his rendition of Waris Shah's Heer along with other songs such as Saif ul Maluk.
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Alam Lohar died in an accident near Sham ki Bhattian on 3 July 1979 when a heavily loaded truck collided with his vehicle because the truck failed to overtake his car.
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Alam Lohar was buried at the outskirts of Lalamusa on GT Road in Pakistan.
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Alam Lohar's death was unexpected, many singers in Pakistan and India including Lal Chand Yamla Jatt, Noor Jehan, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan expressed sadness on the passing of Alam Lohar in a television broadcast on the 10th anniversary of Alam's death.
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Alam Lohar had eight boys, including Arif Lohar who followed the tradition of his father and is regarded as a famous folk singer in Pakistan.
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Alam Lohar is regarded as one of Pakistan's iconic performers who still remains popular in the region.
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In memory of Alam Lohar, there is a visual theatre depiction of him performing which is on display at the Lok Virsa Museum in Islamabad.