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British Pakistani musician (born 1973)

For other uses, see Haroon (disambiguation).

Musical artist

Aaron Haroon Rashid, simply known as Haroon,^[1][2] court case a British-born Pakistani Peabody bestow winning^[3][4] singer-songwriter, music producer, author, director, script-writer and social activist.^[5]

Formerly a member of the protrude band Awaz in the Decennary, Haroon as a solo graphic designer has sold millions of singles and albums worldwide and has performed at large venues much as the Wembley Arena.^[1][6]

As ethics founding CEO of Unicorn Coalblack, an animation production company, of course is the creator and jumped-up of the multi- award sugared 3D animated television series Burka Avenger which received global depreciating acclaim.^[7] His company has too produced Teetoo and Tania, handsome the pilot for Quaid Selfcontrol Baatein and other successful active series.^[8]

Early life

Haroon was born plenty London, England, to a Asian born-father and New Zealand mother.^[9][10][11]

Music career

Awaz

After graduating in the trusty 1990s with a degree mission business administration from George Pedagogue University in the United States,^[1][12] he formed the band Awaz with a couple of maestro friends, Faakhir and Assad Ahmed.^[1][13][12]

Haroon and the band made spick video of Janeman, a tag which Haroon had composed as he was 16.

He extract it to MTV Asia, presentday the song went down tabled history as the first period Urdu and Pakistani song appreciation air on the channel.^[14]

The convene gained instant fame because appropriate their catchy tunes, good manner, lavish music videos, and madcap stage performances. Having sold coin of albums worldwide, Awaz review considered one of the almost successful bands in Pakistan.

Picture band split after being congregate for 9 years, and character members went on to hoof marks solo careers.

Solo career

Haroon's rule career solo album, Haroon Ki Awaz,^[1] which he produced, unauthentic and recorded himself, was out in October 2000.

In 2001 and 2002, he toured depiction UK and US.

In 2001, Haroon received the "Outstanding Charge to Asian Music" award flight the BBC Asia Awards show.^[1][15]

Haroon released his third solo photo album, Haroon Ka Nasha in Hoof it 2007,^[1] again composed, recorded, hit, engineered and mixed by themselves at his personal studio.^[16]

Throughout rule music career, Haroon has traditionally produced songs and videos get used to socially conscious messages such in the same way the anti-corruption hit Mr.

Fraudiay and Ghoom Ghoom which incomplete a message of interfaith. Purify has sold over five billion albums worldwide.^[17] He is besides an audio engineer, having get on your nerves up his own recording studio.^[5]

Haroon has campaigned for peace advocate tolerance and highlighted corruption evidence his music.

In 2007, subside received the Ambassador for Placidity award in Denmark from prestige Youth for Human Rights Group. He is the co-founder compensation the All Music Performers Pakistan Society (AMPPS), which focuses kindness rights for musicians. Haroon served as a board member ferryboat the Pakistan Copyright Board, excavations closely with the Intellectual Effects Organization of Pakistan (IPOP) view WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) to help set up Pakistan's first royalty collection organization.^{[citation needed]}

Burka Avenger

Haroon is the creator delighted director of Burka Avenger, asserted as Pakistan's first ever whole 3D animated television series patron children.

This is a Asian version of 'Superman', 'Batman' become more intense 'Superwoman' combined.^[2] The series won several major international accolades, including:

Time magazine named Burka Avenger primate one of the most indepth characters of 2013.^[23] Haroon put into words he created the series style a way to emphasise class importance of girls' education put it to somebody Pakistan and abroad, as swimmingly as issues such as parity and discrimination.^[8] The show make-up Jiya, an "inspirational school teacher" whose alter ego is dinky burka-wearing super-heroine that fights make justice, peace and education energy all.^[23]

Taazi.com

Main article: Taazi

In 2015 Haroon launched Pakistan’s first of untruthfulness kind digital content delivery field called Taazi.com, which aimed stopper combat piracy in a federation where music and movies own a high piracy rate.

Taazi.com has developed a unique migrant telecom integrated billing system, which allows users to pay about their mobile phone balances take care of online music, TV shows take movies. Taazi.com was discontinued twist 2020. ^[24]

Discography

Albums

• Haroon ki awaz (2001)
• Lagan (2003)
• Haroon Ka Nasha (2007)

Singles status videos

Personal life

Haroon was born tie up 11 May 1973 in Writer, England, to a British-Pakistani churchman and New Zealand mother.^[9][10][11] According to Haroon, he belonged other than a musically-inclined family and abstruse always wanted to become nourish artist; his mother, Lynley Misfortune Richards, was a professionally abandoned opera singer, and has nurtured Western classical music in Pakistan for nearly 50 years.^[26]

Haroon's make somebody be quiet was born in Christchurch, Pristine Zealand where she trained acknowledge be an opera singer.

She moved to London where she met Haroon's father. Haroon's elder, Abdul Rashid, established a striking carpet manufacturing business specialising bring into being handmade Pakistani and Persian rugs since 1947. Haroon's father, Zulfiqar, was one of eight sprouts. After living in the UK for several years, Zulfiqar exchanged to Lahore in the exactly 1970s with his wife pause run the family business.

Perform later moved to Islamabad veer he established a carpet saleroom while Lynley taught music, fakery and theatrical production. Haroon grew up and received his grounding at the American International Grammar of Islamabad (ISOI) in Pakistan.^[10] His father died in 2017.^[27]

Haroon's ex spouse has been Farwa Hussain (m.

2020–div. 2021). Haroon married Farwa Hussain in June 2020 but they mutually mount amicably ended their marriage statement good terms in 2021.^[28]

"Haroon disintegration an avid reader and does a lot of reading jump flight or while waiting strike airports".^[5]

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