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14 Facts About Tina Sani

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Tina Sani is a Pakistani female singer famous for her classical and semi-classical Urdu Ghazals.

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Tina Sani was born in Dhaka, at the time East Pakistan; the family moved to Kabul for a few years, where her father, Nasir Sahni, worked for an oil company, before moving to Karachi, where after graduating from the Karachi American School, she went on to study commercial art.

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Tina Sani was trained in classical music by Ustad Nizamuddin Khan, son of Ustad Ramzan Khan of Delhi gharana and Ustad Chand Amrohvi.

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Tina Sani began working for an advertising agency in 1977.

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Tina Sani was involved in all the creative aspects of advertising business, including listening to and evaluating the music that is an integral part of advertising.

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Tina Sani entered the professional world of singing in 1980, when producer Ishrat Ansari introduced her on TV in a youth programme titled 'Tarang' hosted by Alamgir.

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Tina Sani was influenced by renowned ghazal singers from South Asia like Mehdi Hassan, Malika Pukhraj, Begum Akhtar, Mukhtar Begum and Farida Khanum but has created her own style of singing.

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Tina Sani gained much acclaim in Pakistan and India by singing the poetry of Faiz Ahmed Faiz including poems like and composed by Arshad Mehmood.

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Tina Sani renders poetry of contemporary poets with complete ease and is equally at home singing works of famous poets like Zauq, Ghalib, Mir Taqi Mir and Jalaluddin Rumi.

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Tina Sani was invited as a guest judge in the first Pakistan Idol TV show.

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Tina Sani shared her music journey in a session named "Classical Music Appreciation".

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Tina Sani discussed the current situation and lack of classical music from Pakistani music industry.

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Tina Sani praised role of television in supporting them to continue practising music.

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Tina Sani has sung many songs for the Pakistani TV and film industry, such as the OST for Hum TV's soap 'Choti Si Ghalat Fehmi' and Ho Mann Jahan's 'Khush Piya Wassen'.