Kashifuddin
Traveling to the Coke Studio set all the way from Hunza is 19-year-old Kashif Din, a mostly self-taught artist who is driven by his passion and love for music. Kashif learnt the craft by observing musicians and ustads around him, vocally training with Ustad Irfan and furthering his classical training with Niaz Hamzai in his hometown. After being encouraged by his friends and classmates, who were fans of his voice, Kashif began singing in 2013 and picked up the guitar 3 years later. Soon after, he began teaching himself music production on a broken laptop given to him by his cousin, using computer software to learn about rhythm and harmony, through application. Also, Kashif enjoys writing the lyrics to his music and is currently focusing on experimenting within the folk music genre while he completes his undergraduate studies at Government College Lahore. Kashif’s aim is to find new and unique ways to fuse western and eastern rhythms together, and to incorporate western drums, bass, chords, and progressions into the music of his region.
“When the world came into existence, so did music. There is music in everything. There is a scale in every voice. Everything moves to a timing. Our whole lives move to a beat and even the heart beats to a specific time. As far as I’m concerned, the entire world is music.”