Early Life

Atif's kindergarten started in Model town Lahore at Kimberley Hall School. His first stage manifestation was in a fancy dress show at his school when he was in 1st grade, where he performed as Imran Khan 'Captain of the Pakistani Cricket Team'. Since then cricket was a passion for him. At that time he did not listen to any particular kind of songs.

At the age of 9, he moved to Norway where he studied at Saint Paul's School. Atif came back to Lahore in 1995 where he continued his studies in Divisional Public School (DPS), Model Town, Lahore. He was selected in his school cricket team as a bowler. Atif cleared his 10th grade in 14 years of age with a distinctive edge that he has always been the youngest boy in the class because of his double promotions while he was in Kimberley Hall. During this period he was putting his best efforts into becoming a professional cricketer. He practiced at the nets at Shapes club in Lahore where Imran Khan would give him tips on bowling.[citation needed]He passed out of DPS after completing his school ending matriculation exams. He further continued his education from Fizzia Air Force College (Lahore) where he completed his ICS with the class of 2001. He also had a brief stint by painting guests visiting the 5-star Pearl Continental Hotel in Bhurban.

Music Career

One day he was singing to his guy friends at the college canteen. His friends urged him to participate in the singing competition on Independence Day celebrations at PAF College Lahore and Sargodha in 1998. He performed there and won the competition.

His hobby of singing continued with him entering the singing competition of his college. There were a total of 3 participants. The media team entered Atif's name in the competition at the eleventh hour. He won the competition by singing the hit number Duur of Strings. He kept on winning these competitions every semester until he announced that he will no longer participate in them so that someone else can also win the competition.

He met Goher, a guitarist and future Jal bandmate, at his college. Together they practised and started doing mini-concerts for their friends whether they wanted to hear them play or not. Atif used to perform Junoon and Strings songs at these concerts. They started performing in their college, McDonalds, Uncle Bubba's Rabba Dabba and other restaurants. Thus began the original line up of Jal.

Jal recorded the song Aadat at Mekal Hassan's Studio. The song became popular on different musical websites in Pakistan. The song was also being on aired on major Radio channels of Pakistan like City FM 89, FM 100, Mast FM 103, FM 105 etc. The video for this song was released on Ary The Music and then it was played on almost all the channels

Awards

• Best song, best composition, and best lyrics for Aadat - 2nd Jazz Indus Music Awards (Pakistan)
• Best playback singer and best debut singer - Sahara Sangeet Awards (India)
• Best song, best lyricist, and best composition - ARY Music Awards (Pakistan)
• Most Wanted Male - The Musik Awards (Pakistan)
• Best pop star of the year - Filmazia Awards (Pakistan)
• Best album of the year for Doorie - 2007 LUX Style Awards (Pakistan)
• Most stylish musician of 2007 - MTV Pakistan Style Awards
• Most stylish musician - MTV Style Lycra Awards (India)
• Tamgha-e-Imtiaz or Medal-of-Excellence (Pakistan's highest civilian award), on Pakistan Day (March 23, 2008)
• Best dressed male - LUX Style Awards 2008 (Pakistan)

Album Information

Jal Pari

• Released: July 2004
• Label: Sound Master and IC Records
• Singles: Aadat, Bheeghi Yaadain, Jalpari, Gal sun ja, Mahi ve, Zindagi

Doorie

• Released: December 2006
• Label: Tips
• Singles: Kuch is tarha, Doorie, Mahiya ve soniya, O Re Piya, Maula

Meri Kahani

• Released: January 2008
• Label: Tips , Fire Records
• Singles: Meri Kahani, Humrahi, Hungami Halaat, Rabba Sacheya, Joug

Early Life

Atif's kindergarten started in Model town Lahore at Kimberley Hall School. His first stage manifestation was in a fancy dress show at his school when he was in 1st grade, where he performed as Imran Khan 'Captain of the Pakistani Cricket Team'. Since then cricket was a passion for him. At that time he did not listen to any particular kind of songs.

At the age of 9, he moved to Norway where he studied at Saint Paul's School. Atif came back to Lahore in 1995 where he continued his studies in Divisional Public School (DPS), Model Town, Lahore. He was selected in his school cricket team as a bowler. Atif cleared his 10th grade in 14 years of age with a distinctive edge that he has always been the youngest boy in the class because of his double promotions while he was in Kimberley Hall. During this period he was putting his best efforts into becoming a professional cricketer. He practiced at the nets at Shapes club in Lahore where Imran Khan would give him tips on bowling.[citation needed]He passed out of DPS after completing his school ending matriculation exams. He further continued his education from Fizzia Air Force College (Lahore) where he completed his ICS with the class of 2001. He also had a brief stint by painting guests visiting the 5-star Pearl Continental Hotel in Bhurban.

Biography

Muhammad Atif Aslam was born on 12th march 1983 in Wazirabad Gujranwala. Atif's kinder garden started in Model town Lahore at Kimberley Hall School. His first stage manifestation was in a fancy dress show at his school when he was in grade–1 where he performed as Imran Khan “ Captain of Pakistan Cricket Team”. Since then cricket was like a passion to him. He was never tired of playing cricket for hours in his car porch whether it is scorching sun outside or even raining. At that time he did not use to listen any kind of songs. At the age of 9 in 1991 he shifted to Rawalpindi/Islamabad where he continued his studies in Saint Pauls School. He started playing Basket Ball and he used to lead his school team for matches. Atif came back to Lahore in 1995 where he continued his studies in Divisional Public School Model Town. For his immense passion for cricket he was selected in his school team as a fast bowler. Atif cleared his 10th grade in 14 years of age with a distinctive edge that he has always been the youngest boy in the class because of his double promotions while he was in Kimberley Hall. Atif started his HSc in PAF College Lahore. Cricket was all the times with him. He was in his college team as well, where he presented his college in other cities. Beside his studies, he was putting his maximum time in practicing for professional cricket. During his college life he came across with some interest in music. His eldest brother was having a collection of more than 8,000 songs of almost all music genres. Un-intentionally he was developing a habit of listening to all kinds of music in his house. As a good learner he quickly grasped the control of voice but till that time he was not interested in singing, his passion was to enter in Pakistan cricket team as a fast bowler and he was right on track while practicing at the net at Shapes club Lahore where Imran Khan used to come and give tips to him for bowling. The twist in the story comes when one day he was singing with his friends at the college canteen. His friends insisted him to participate in the singing competition on Independence Day celebrations at PAF College Lahore and Sargodha in 1998. He performed there and won the competition. After HSc Atif Joined Punjab Institute of Computer Science Gulberg Campus. This time studies were much more demanding as compared to the previous ones. He had to sacrifice his time for the cricket. His hobby of singing continued when he entered the singing competition of his college. There were a total of 8 participants .The media team entered Atif's name in the competition at the eleventh hour and he won the competition by singing a hit number Duur of Strings Band He kept on winning these competitions every semester until he announced that he will no longer participate in next competitions so that someone else can also win the competition. He encountered Goher at his college who had good interest in Music & was a good, talented guitarist. Together they used to practice a lot and started doing mini concerts for their friend. Atif used to sing Junoon's and String's songs at the concerts. The volume of cheers of audience kept on increasing. They performed concerts for their college, McDonalds and some other restaurants as well. Atif recorded the legendary song “AADAT” at Mekal Hassan's Studio. Mekal injected his professionalism in the song to make it worth listening time after time. Atif formed the band and named the band as “JAL” which means water, the essence of life. The song got popularity on different musical websites on Pakistan. The song was also being on aired on major Radio channels of Pakistan like FM100, FM 105 etc. “Umer Anwar” from Karachi approached Atif for making the video of “AADAT”. Aadat's video was shot in one day in a warehouse at Karachi. The basic theme of the video was to attract people to listen to this song, which will vanish their sorrows and then make them happy. A girl who acted as an angel in the video was distributing this message to people to listen to this song. Atif was making waves in the industry. God has been very very kind to Atif. By the Grace of God his video was released in December on “ARY THE MUSIC” and then it rocked almost all the channels. Atif released his first album Jal Pari on 18th July 2004 all over the nation by the country's leading record label, Sound Master and IC records & Alhumdolillah the results declared it as the best selling album of the year within just 5 months of the release and it is still continuing. Because of the eternal mercifulness of Allah who gave the kind of continuous love of people to Atif , lime light, interviews, fans, autographs, snaps, concerts, get-togethers, traveling all came to him at once and Atif was really stretched up for all this because in the mean time he had the final exams of BCS and he cleared his Bachelorz in Computer Science ( hons) from University of Central Punjab. Performing live is the real test of any singer and Alhumdolillah people believe that Atif is one of the best live singers in the nation. Atif has done hundreds of live shows with local as well as international artists all over the globe for a lot of brands. Atif's song WOH LAMHEY which he sang for the Bollywood movie “ Zeher” in 2005 is being considered among the ten best ever green songs of the Bollywood industry doing a business of One million Dollar plus only in India in terms of sales. This song opened the doors of bollywood for Atif and he is now one of the few singers of the nation who are doing play back singing in bollywood which is indeed a national pride for us. His 2nd song in bollywood “Aadat” made people addicted to his voice in the biggest nation of the world. Third song “Teray Bin” is also being considered as one of the most touching and heart melting numbers of the year 2006. One of the most rare distinctions which atif earned for Pakistan was that his 3 songs “ Aaadat , Ehsaas and Yakeen were included in a Hollywood art movie “ MAN PUSH CART”. The movie got tremendous response in international film festivals and won FEPRISKI award in Europe Atif has been nominated for a number of awards internationally during his short career which is again a matter of pride for the nation. His song Who Lamhay made him nominated as best singer for 2005 in almost all the film awards of bollywood including Film Fare Awrads , Zee Cine Awards , IIFA Awards etc etc . Some of the awards he has won are as under:

Winner OF Best Play Back Singer Best Debu Singer Sahara Sangeet Awards USA Winner OF Best Song Best Lyricist Best Composition Most Wanted Male The Music Awards Karachi

Atif has a long list of the people who supported him through out his career so far and he is very grateful to them all. In Atif’s encouraging family he has a very loving & simple mother who always prays for his success. His father “Muhammad Aslam” is an Engineer from UET , recently Retired from his Public Service from Communication & Works Department and is very happy to see the success of his youngest son. Atif has three brothers. “Shahzad” the eldest one is an Engineer from UET plus a photographer (www.discreet-vision.com) who keeps on guiding Atif for the various aspects of his videos, images and tours. The second one is “Shahbaz”, an MBA from PCBA who manages all the concerts of Atif .He also design clothes for Atif. The third one is Sheraz a computer Graduate from Allama Iqbal Open University, is a great graphic designer, painter and a Webmaster and a true friend of Atif. We all wish him the very best of luck for his musical career. He need support, prays, best wishes from all you people. He has to go a very long way. This is just a start. We need you guys to pray for him that God should always be extremely kind to him. “Sitaroun say aagay jahan aur bhi hain Abhi ISHQ k imtihaan aur bhi hain

Album Information

Jal Pari

• Released: July 2004
• Label: Sound Master and IC Records
• Singles: Aadat, Bheeghi Yaadain, Jalpari, Gal sun ja, Mahi ve, Zindagi

Doorie

• Released: December 2006
• Label: Tips
• Singles: Kuch is tarha, Doorie, Mahiya ve soniya, O Re Piya, Maula

Meri Kahani

• Released: January 2008
• Label: Tips , Fire Records
• Singles: Meri Kahani, Humrahi, Hungami Halaat, Rabba Sacheya, Joug

Controversy

After the release of the song "Aadat" by Jal, there were disputes within the band about Atif's brother being the band's manager. At this point Atif broke off from the band to do his own solo album. His solo album was released a few weeks before the release of the new Jal's (Goher Mumtaz, Farhan Saeed, Shazi) "Aadat". As both Jal's "Aadat", and Atif’s album, Jalpari, shared certain tracks (such as "Aadat", "Wo Lamhey", "Rangon Mein" and "Dil Harey"), an unofficial war over rights began between both the groups. Goher Mumtaz sued Atif Aslam for using the name "Jal" in his album title cunningly (Jal pari, meaning mermaid). As the copyright law in Pakistan is quite ambiguous (people can change the name of the content and use the content labelling it as their own property).

The hype this feud gave to both Atif and the new Jal was extraordinary and split music fans with the fans of each side backing their respective favourite. On the other hand, a few years back a video on youtube was released with Atif Aslam giving a message to Goher Mumtaz to leave the differences behind and move on with his career and stop blaming each other fovoices.

Solo Career

Atif released his first album Jal Pari on 18th July 2004 by Sound Master and IC records. Its promoters declared it to be the best selling album of the year within just 5 months of the release.^[1]. In the meantime Atif also cleared his Bachelors in Computer Science (Hons.) from University of Central Punjab. On 14th April 2007 Atif Aslam performed in Royal Albert Hall. His second album, Doorie was released on 22nd December 2006.

On 8th January, Aslam released his third album, Meri Kahani.

On 17th July 2008 Atif Aslam was the second singer to perform in Colosseum in Rome, Italy after the peace concert held on 12 May 2002.

Dubai Concert ( pixs )

UK & US Tour ( Pixs )

RoYal Palm Concert ( 14 Pixs )