Introduction – Junaid Jamshed

Junaid Jamshed was a Pakistani recording craftsman, TV character, fashion designer, periodic performing artist, vocalist lyricist, preacher and revivalist. Subsequently graduating with a gradation in engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology (Lahore), he temporarily operated as a civilian servicer and engineer for the Pakistan Air Force previously concentrating on a music profession.

He primarily acquired countrywide fame and reputation also global appreciation as a band ‘Vital Signs’ singer in the year 1987 with the album ‘Vital Signs 1’. The famous ‘Dil Dil Pakistan’ and ‘Tum Mil Gaye’ were in this album. The business achievement of Vital Signs’ first collection built up Pakistan’s rock music industry.

In 1994, he discharged his introductory solo collection, he took after by Us Rah Par in 1999 and Dil Ki Baat in 2002. In 2004, he left his engineering career and music vocation a short time later, he concentrated on his sacred actions for Islam. He likewise possessed a dressing boutique with the name “J.” spoken as “Jay Dot”, which has a number of outlets all through Pakistan and some overseas. In November 2014, he was blamed for sacrilege and in December 2014, in a video communication, he made an apology for upsetting public and committing errors. Junaid Jamshed and his second spouse passed on 7 December 2016 when PIA Flight 661 slammed in Havelian. The flight was on the way from Chitral to Islamabad. He was in Chitral for a Tablighi Jamaat operation and was coming back to Islamabad.

Personal Life and Educational Details

Junaid Jamshed was born on September 3, 1964 in Karachi. His father was Jamshed Akbar, a Group Captain in the Pakistan Air Force. His mother was Nafeesa Akber. He had two brothers, Omer Jamshed and Humayun Jamshed, and a sister Muneeza Jamshed. His hobbies were singing, traveling, exercising and swimming.

Subsequent to moving on from a global boarding secondary school in Yanbu’ al Bahr in Saudi Arabia, he desired to link with the Pakistan Air Force to become a military pilot but on the other hand, he could not due to the reason of his weak eyesight. After that he went to the University of Engineering and Technology in Lahore, where he took mathematics and physics as his main subjects and in 1990, he got a Bachelor of Science degree, graduating in mechanical engineering. Through his father’s power, he was engaged by the PAF as a civilian contractor and enthused on to a brief vocation in aircraft engineering in the PAF’s science facility.

In 1983, he began to give performances on rock music at Peshawar University and Islamabad University branches however still an undergraduate at UET in Lahore.

Throughout this phase, Rohail Hyatt was in city in the search for a songster for the freshly shaped group, ‘Vital Signs’. Shahzad Hasan (the bassist) and Rohail Hyatt (the keyboardist) reached at the site of Peshawar University to see Junaid Jamshed however they were incapable to do so for the reason that of severe winter climate in Peshawar.

Jamshed sang “Careless Whisper” that evening a 1984 solo by George Michael, in the university.

Rohail and Shahzad did not see with Junaid Jamshed for the next four years. In 1987, he amalgamated his engineering university’s rock group, Nuts and Bolts as a main singer and performed at Flashman’s Hotel in Rawalpindi. Nusrat Hussain, the guitarist of the band, and Rohail Hyatt were similarly there looking for new flair at the lodging. At the point when he came to perform in front of an audience, Nusrat tipped Hyatt saying, “That child’s returning; the person you preferred”and “maybe we ought to go and see him.” Hussain encouraged Hyatt to see him and after his execution. With the assistance of Hyatt and Nusrat Hussain, Jamshed was drafted into the singing gathering Vital Signs and marked a record manage record official and maker Shoaib Mansoor to his PTV Music Studio.

Music Journey

In spite of the fact that the band Vital Signs started in mid-1986 in Rawalpindi by Keyboardist Rohail Hyatt and bassist Shahzad Hasan (Shahi), it was not till far along that Jamshed, then a new engineering undergraduate from UET Lahore, combined with them as their lead vocalist.

They started giving performances in several portions of the state after having held a position in the secretive music industry in Islamabad and Lahore. In a live performance in Islamabad, the group got noted and approached by the musical representatives of the PTV, and a record contract was granted by Rana Kanwal, a pupil of the National Academy of Performing Arts.

Rana Kanwal was given a task in which she was required to create a music film and she wanted to make one of a music group. .The band progressed to Islamabad and started taking a shot at the main collection for Kanwal, later known as “Chehra”.

As said by Hyatt, “the melody we made for her was Chehra. It was the first composition we penned as an article and it was likewise a portion of our first collection.” Throughout this period, the band held the consideration of record creator and broadcaster Shoaib Mansoor who also a teacher at the National Academy of Performing Arts. Mansoor turn out to be familiar with the band and controlled on their first album, leading the script of a nationalistic tune.

In conclusion, their first album, Vital Signs 1, was unconfined countrywide and proclaimed on PTV. Their presentation hit records, “Dil Dil Pakistan” and “Tum Mil Gaye”, discharged on 14 August 1987, gave them nationwide reputation and eminence. Both melodies were enormous business hits and earned high basic praise. The melodies in the main collection were a moment Sleeper hit and immediately picked up a colossal across the nation achievement, which totally stunned the band. In a meeting with PTV, Jamshed said it was not something that would transform him into an expert artist.

He kept up that his strategies were to get a gradation in engineering to make efforts for the Pakistan Air Force, at first he did not wish to have whatsoever to do with music with the exception of just considering it as a sideline or diversion. In any case, Rohail and Shahzad soon figured out how to persuade him generally.

After the succession of hit songs and collections, in 1998 the group of the singers divided unfortunately and Junaid Jamshed started to perform solo attaining increasing marketable accomplishment. Their first collection confined many hit melodies and the band was drawn closer by a few worldwide organizations to compose tunes and promote their items to the public. Their accomplishment elevated the underground music diligence to countrywide level and they are broadly attributed for enhancing the Pakistani music industry. In 1991, the band discharged their second collection, that was Vital Signs 2, created by the EMI Studios in Pakistan. In spite of the fact that, the second collection was not as fruitful obviously, the crew made its first global visit in the United States.

The band rejoined Shoaib Mansoor in the year 1993 and discharged their third album Aitebaar. In the same time Junaid Jamshed signed a contract of acting for a series of PTV ‘Dhundlay Rastay’. In mid-1995, the band discharged its fourth and last collection, Hum Tum. By mid-1996, different disputes and troubles between the individuals from the band started to surface in the media. After the arrival of their last single, Maula, Shahzad Hasan withdrew to the US in the wake of taking up a PC building work with IBM. Hyatt framed a recording organization; Coke Studio which would later rise as an effective undertaking.

Solo Vocation

Junaid Jamshed released his first ever solo collection ‘Junaid of Vital Signs’ in the year 1994. The album’s title was far ahead reformed to Tumhara Aur Mera Naam by the record creators. Subsequent to withdrawing from Vital Signs in 1998, Jamshed discharged the second solo collection,’Us Raah Par’ in 1999. The second solo collection, Us Rah Par went ahead to wind up distinctly one of the smash hit collections of 1999. The collection incorporated a few singles which got to be distinctly well known and were extreme sleeper hits. All tunes were composed by Jamshed and the dominant part of such melodies as, “Us Rah Par”, “Na Tu Ayegi”, “Aankhon Ko Aankhon Ney” and “O Sanama”, were extreme achievement and business hits ever.

In 2000, Jamshed discharged his third collection, The Best of Junaid Jamshed, which confined new versions of some of the smash tracks of the Vital Signs period, however it caught the blend achievement. His fourth and latest singly collection, Dil Ki Baat, was discharged in 2001, which turned out to be profoundly fruitful in the nation and picked up a great deal of people and media consideration.In 2003, BBC World Service gathered information to pick the most prominent tunes. Around 7,000 tunes were chosen from everywhere throughout the world. As indicated by BBC, individuals from 155 nations/regions voted in the survey. “Dil Pakistan” was positioned third among the main 10 melodies.

Left the Music

As ahead of schedule as 1999, the media started estimating about Jamshed’s float from music not long after the Vital Signs blurred away. The hypotheses soon kicked the bucket after Jamshed discharged his performance collections and proceeded with world visits.

After 2001, Jamshed vanished from the general population eye and maintained a strategic distance from media consideration. His latest two songs collections did not do well in the business and miscarried to catch any encouraging reaction from the republic’s music critics. His previous band members, Shahi and Hyatt, saw him attempting to arrange the move starting with one world then onto the next.

He got to be distinctly far off from Hyatt, who kept on taking a shot at creating music. He likewise battled monetarily in the wake of leaving the Vital Signs band, and it was Shoaib Mansoor who derived to support him economically once giving him the starring role in Gulls & Guys television series.

After the 9/11 assaults in the United States, Hyatt and Jamshed’s visits in the West battled with a considerable measure of inquiries from Westerners about the nation’s way of life, extremism and music.

After returning, Jamshed filed for economic failure in law court and made an endeavor to restart his vocation in engineering subsequent to applying at different organizations. Hypotheses in regards to Jamshed started to emerge in media, along these lines media outlets contracted some paparazzi to take after Jamshed. It was as often as possible reported that Jamshed had separated himself from music and had been praying five times each day consistently at the adjacent mosque.

At long last, Jamshed who had been not representing the cause very well from his engineering vocation for a long time, reported that he would open a clothing boutique with a close associate of his. In 2004, Jamshed authoritatively repudiated music in the wake of reporting that he had committed his life to Islam. Jamshed then left engineering and, to increment his salary, he opened the dress store “J.”

In 1986, Jamshed earned a considerable measure of exposure with the Vital Signs’ hit rock melody, Do Pal Ka. The Vital Signs band got to be distinctly well known with Pakistan’s media after the achievement of the energetic Dil  Dil Pakistan. He has been recorded by The Muslim 500 as one of the “World’s Most Influential Muslims” for his association in philanthropy work, particularly with the NGO Muslim Charity from 2003 until his demise in 2016. It expressed that “(the) Muslim Charity has accomplished significantly under his administration and extended its tasks to 16 nations.”

Death Incident

In a devastating plane crash that killed more than 40 people, Junaid Jamshed and his family also lost their lives. Jamshed was in Chitral, alongside one of his two spouses, Nahya Junaid, for a Tablighi Jamaat operation. They were coming back to Islamabad from Chitral on December 7, 2016 from PIA Flight 661 which crashed near Havelian, Khyber Paktunkhwa, slaying all on the spot. Jamshed was enroute to convey the Friday sermon at the Parliament mosque. The bodies were singed to the point of being unrecognizable. He is made due by his first spouse Ayesha, three sons, and a girl.