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Jal

He used to sing at the college canteen when his friends urged him to participate in the singing competition on Independence Day celebrations at PAF College Lahore in 1998. He performed there and won the competition. Thereafter, he also won several other college competitions.

He met Goher, a guitarist and future Jal. bandmate, at his college. Together they practiced 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. Recently, Atif sang two songs for a Bollywood film ‘Ajab Prem ki Ghazab Kahani’ called ‘Tera Hone Laga Hoon’ and ‘Tu Jaane Na’, both of which have been well-received by the Indian audience.Atif also sang many more songs for Bollywood Like in Race “Pehle Nazar mein”, in Kismat Konnection “Bakuda Tum Hi Ho”, “Tera hone laga hoon” & “Tu jane na” in Ajab Prem Ki Gajab Kahani.

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Muhammad Atif Aslam (born 11 March 1983) is a Pakistani pop singer. He was born in Wazirabad and educated in Lahore and Rawalpindi. He is widely recognized in South Asia and has several hit songs such as Aadat, Woh Lamhe, Tere Bin, Pehli Nazar Mein, Tera hone laga hoon, Tu Jaane Na and Meri Kahani. He is known for his powerful vocal belting technique

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 Rawalpindi where he studied at Saint Paul’s Cambridge 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.[citation needed]He passed out of DPS after completing his school ending matriculation exams. He also played Table Tennis. He further continued his education at PAF College, Lahore where he completed his FSc with the class of 2001. He then did his Bachelors of Computer Science from PCBA/PICS (University of Central Punjab)and he has awesome songs.