Mohabbat (song)

"Mohabbat" was written in the 1920s by Hafeez Hoshiarpuri, a poet born in 1912 in Hoshiarpur, Punjab, India and died in 1973 in Karachi, Pakistan. == Music ==

"Mohabbat"'s have been interpreted in multiple ways. Musician Arooj Aftab stated that the ghazal "could be a love song, breakup song, a political statement, a nostalgic memory." == Versions ==

The ghazal has been covered by numerous singers, including Mehdi Hassan, Iqbal Bano, Jagjit Singh, Papon, Farida Khanum, and Arooj Aftab. The ghazal was initially popularized by Hassan's rendition. Aftab's rendition won the Grammy Award for Best Global Music Performance at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards. Taan, a vocal modulation in which a singer quickly shifts between notes while climbing up a scale, is a common vocal technique used in renditions of the ghazal. Uncut's Sam Richards described the song as "based on traditional Pakistani songs of yearning, placed in a radical new context that only enhances their power." Band Baji of Dawn described the song as "a beautiful, minimalist, unplugged track that is haunting both for its ambient sound as well as Arooj’s elongated vocalisations of longing and separation." Aftab's rendition won the Grammy Award for Best Global Music Performance at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards. == References ==