Celebrity Profile

Hadiqa Kiyani

Born 25 years ago under the sign of the Lion, Hadiqa Kiyani is a lioness with boundless amounts of energy. Her personality is reserved, controlled and yet ambitious and fiery. These are probably some of the very traits that have taken Hadiqa to all her successes in the past few years given her youth and the restraints of working as a solo female singer in Pakistan. Needless to say, beneath the quiet and confidence, lies a mature and focused woman. She knows what she wants. She has a presence on stage much larger than her actual petite physicality.

Though the media has started following Hadiqa's growth recently, she has been actively aware of the art of music since the death of her father. At the tender age of 3, Hadiqa, along with her siblings was enrolled in a music school by her mother. The idea was to shield them from any psychological imbalances the passing away of their father might have had on their young minds. Little did she know what talent lay within one of her children and that it would becoming a desire that would burn into an undying passion for singing.
Like any other form of art, singing for Hadiqa is a means to express her innermost feelings. Hadiqa seems to create a spiritual connection between the lyrics of a song, its melody and herself. It is almost as if she allows herself to be lost in another dimension, as a medium for the woes of lost souls out there using the gentle power of her voice to let in the joyous life giving rays of light that would make melancholic souls smile.
Yet, behind all these tones of hope and languorous melodies of dreams lies a role model for women today who have aspirations and ambitions for their tomorrow. To "be tough" applies to everyone regardless of ones gender, Hadiqa strongly believes that one has to prove to oneself whether the chosen path is the right one and then be willing to stand by those convictions.
Her career achievements range from performing on the sound track to SARGAM for which she won an award, to performing with Junaid Jamshed, Aakash and Fakhr-e-Alam in the first Asian "DREAM TEAM WORLD TOUR 1996" which traveled across England. She had the opportunity to work with Bally Sagoo; performed once again as the first Asian in front of a 16 Million strong audience. Afterwards she worked on two more shows with Bally Sagoo for BBC 2 and ITV before moving to perform in the U.S. Her U.S. tour covered 15 states and a show in Canada too. She has performed in Hong Kong with Bally Sagoo, once again. The list of achievements goes on. The one she is most excited about, thus far, is having signed a 2 year contract with PEPSI as their second only solo female vocalist ever - Gloria Estefan being the first. Music is Hadiqa's first and last goal, a dedication that has not only shown itself in all her career achievements, but also in the fact that she just got married and her belief still remains the same.
With a definitive attraction to the unusual and weird, "artistic" people, like herself, Hadiqa is on her way to making a name for herself and her country internationally. Her "thirst will never end". And she will do it; by aiming high, working hard and climbing slowly. For Hadiqa Kiani, there are "no limits".

Career:

Achievements:	1- First Asian Female Singer signed by Pepsi Cola International, (Second Solo Female Singer in the World after GLORIA ESTEFAN). 2- Performed in the British National Lottery Live BBC 1, (First Asian Singer ever to do so). 3- Performed in several International Forums such as "CELEBRATION HONGKONG 97" (other acts of the Concert were "Micheal Learns to Rock, All 4 One, The Brand New Heavies, Wet Wet Wet and Lisa Stansfield). 4- Debut Album "Raaz" was a "l2" songs Album (Sold over 600,000 Copies in Pakistan, remained Top of the Pakistani Charts for more than 40 weeks). 5- Only female Play back singer for the famous Musical Film SARGAM featuring ZEBA BAKHTIAR (Music by Adnan Sami Khan). 6- Conducted POP Music program VIDEO JUNCTION on NTM for a year. 7- Hadiqa has already performed twice in USA and CANADA. 8- Hadiqa has performed five live Concerts in UK. 9- One live Concert in Australia. 10- Learnt Light Classical Music from Ustad Faiz Ahmed Khan (late). 11- Conducted Children's Musical Programme on PTV for Three and a half years. 12- Hadiqa's biggest Plus point is her Versatility and command over different Styles of Music ( Capable of singing in different languages such as Urdu, English, Arabic and Punjabi ). 13- And she is also an MSC in Psychology.
Hit Singles:	Jeevan Manne Di Mauj Jan-e-Jan Tu Agar Mil Jata Yaad Dupatta Mehndi Intehai Shauq
Albums:	ROSHNI, Released on November 01, 1999
	RAAZ , Released on August 11, 1996