Wajiha Naqvi
Wajiha Ather Naqvi is a multidisciplinary creative practitioner/artist from Karachi, Pakistan. With an academic background in cultural anthropology, she is also a music researcher, a vocalist and songwriter. She is a graduate of LUMS and New York University with research focus on Sacred music from the Islamic world, particularly South Asia.
Sunday 6th March
Ranis Rising
As part of WOW festival's closing performance 'Ranis Rising', Wajiha Ather Naqvi and Natasha Ejaz bring the festivities to an end on a beautiful note. Wajiha, with her band members Jasir Abro and Aziz Kazi, delivers a tribute to some of the iconic music Ranis/Queens from the older decades of Pakistani music history. Re-visiting some of their forgotten classics, this unique set will be a contemporary take on desi-folk tunes, reimagined through modern chill-hop/lo-fi sounds and arrangements - a current day ode to the timeless legacy of these legendary female queens from yesteryear.
Natasha has performed a number of original songs, including a few unreleased numbers, about spreading love and goodness in collaboration with Jahanzeb from KCR. The performance has some popping, hi-tech visuals and will leave you bopping to the beat!