Nazia Hassan(Pakistan’s Queen of Disco Pop)

In 1980, Nazia Hassan, a fifteen-years old Pakistani girl residing in the United Kingdom were approached by Indian actor and director Feroz Khan along with Biddu Appaiah, an Indian music producer who asked her to sing the song Aap Jaisa Koi for the film Qurbani.She was selected for the nasal quality of the song’s delivery. The song became an instant hit in the UK and the Indian sub-continent. Influenced primarily by disco beats and hip-hop, Nazia along with her brother Zohaib Hassan produced successive hits. Their songs Disco Deewane and Tere Qadmon Ko became the rage all over Asia to the extent that their very first album was declared the best selling album of the time in Asia.

The hype did not last for long as with Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq’s regime came drastic decisions to Islamicise the nation. Almost all music videos were banned to air on local television.[8] The religious leaders found the two Hassan siblings dancing together on the stage most un-Islamic. When shown the videos would feature Nazia waist-up to hide her dancing feet.Hence came another blow to the music industry.