Arieb Azhar

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Having left Pakistan at the tender age of nineteen, Arieb settled in Croatia for the next thirteen years to come. "Growing up, I went through several music phases," said Arieb who was part of an Irish band in Croatia for five to six years - producing two albums of purely Irish music. But there was something missing. Something that didn't quite feel 'complete'. "I was feeling a level of insincerity. I felt I got too caught up in the stardom aspect and strongly desired to reconnect back with my roots. I just kept going to whatever was pulling me," and so, putting thought into action, Arieb finally moved back to his motherland three years ago. But what was it like when he moved back? Did he find it hard to adjust, spread his wings as an artiste in a country he was away from for thirteen long years? "My album took too long, almost a year and a half when in actuality it should have taken around three to four months. But finding the right musicians I could gel with was one of the reasons for the delay." Some label Arieb as the next Rabbi Shergill - an insult rather than a compliment. Just because both musicians incorporate Baba Bulleh Shah's poetry into songs does not by any means denote they're cut out from the same cloth. Each is distinct, individual and has his own approach to Sufi thought and poetry. "Wajj", the name of Arieb's first album, stems from the Punjabi word 'wajnaa' - meaning an 'impact' of sorts, something being 'struck', 'cha jana'. When "Wajj" was originally

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