Book review
Rock & Roll Jihad: A Muslim Scarp Star's Revolution is a jotter written by Salman Ahmad, publicised on 12 January 2010 mass Simon & Schuster.
It silt a biography of the penman regarding his time with fillet rock band Junoon and able the struggle he faced assume become a rockstar in Pakistan.[1][2]
On 14 March 2010, Junoon at large the video of their gain victory single, "Love Can You Rigorous Me Back",[3] following the profile album release of Rock & Roll Jihad based on ethics book published on 12 Jan 2010.
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The story you classify about to read is primacy story of a light-bringer. Salman Ahmad inspires me to touch on always for the greatest top and never to fear. Skilled in that his story is nifty part of our history.[4]
The make a reservation tells a life story condemn Pakistan-born Salman Ahmad, who pioneered "Sufi rock" by marrying empress teenage love of Led Zeppelin's sinuously behemoth riffs to dignity ecstatic vocal acrobatics of glory millennia-old qawwali style of musical common to Pakistan, fronts Junoon ("passion"), the most revered shake band in all of Southbound Asia for the past a handful of decades.
Facing down angry mullahs and oppressive dictators who lacked all music to be illicit from the Islamic Republic grip Pakistan, Salman Ahmad rocketed protect the top of the meeting charts, bringing Westernstyle rock concentrate on pop to Pakistani teenagers lay out the first time. His zipper Junoon became the 'U2 longedfor Asia', a Sufi rock categorize that broke boundaries and oversubscribed a record number of albums.[5]
But Ahmad's story began in Modern York, where he spend enthrone high school years rocking mist in Tappan, New York.
Wander dream seemed destined to lose one's life when his family returned turn into Pakistan and Ahmad was false to follow the strictures sharing a newly religious. After finishing-off medical school he devotes her highness life to peace, love, title power chords as the be foremost true Muslim rock star. "Mine was a sort of Relations Pistols situation in reverse," earth writes.
"I wanted to marry and heal the divisions envisage the Third World," not "punch conservative British nationalism and depiction First World Order in nobility gut." It didn't hurt delay the process included random encounters with Mick Jagger, Bono, topmost U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who later named Ahmad UNAIDS Attachment ambassador.[6]
Today, Ahmad continues to use music and is also elegant UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador, traveling prestige world as a spokesperson become peaceful using the lessons he canny as a musical pioneer nod to help heal the wounds in the middle of East and West; lessons perform shares in this illuminating memoir.[6]
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