Salman Ahmad in the News >>
- JUNOON TO CELEBRATE PEACE THROUGH MUSIC AT
2007 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE CONCERT DECEMBER 11TH IN NORWAY
- Sufi Rocker, Campus Troubadour
- Pakistani rock star striking a new chord
- Junoon bridges the Indo-Pakistan divide musically
- Muslim, Jewish, & Christian Artists to Build Musical Bridges
- Salman Ahmed Performs in Faith Jam 07 - PHOTOS
- Three films about music and Islam hit Scandinavia
- ROCKSTAR & MULLAHS HITS SCANDINAVIA
- Salman Ahmed , UNAIDS Special Representative on World AIDS Day, 1 December 2006
- 2006 Region II NAFSA Conference - Keynote Speaker
- Muslim musician sings for peace in the Middle East, to come to Lawrence
- Clinton invites musician to address panel
- South Asians in US remember 9/11
The men who hijacked four aircraft on 9/11
also hijacked Islam - Pakistani rock star Salman Ahmad
- Salman Ahmad appears on the cover of the 15th anniversary cover of 'What Is Enlightenment?'
- Music can be more effective than diplomacy in making peace - Ode magazine
- DNA newspaper Mumbai - Salman Interview
- MULTI-PLATINUM PAKISTANI BAND, JUNOON 's founder and guitarist Salman Ahmad HAS JUST RE-RELEASED A SONG BASED ON A POST 9/11 POEM BY polarity/1's POLAR LEVINE
- Salman Ahmad to perform at 9/11 Unity Walk-NYC
- Seeing with the heart, July 6, 2006
"Salman Ahmad builds bridges with a passion, which is fitting because the name of his band, Junoon, means "state of passion" in Urdu." - Palo Alto Weekly
Salman Ahmad, is lead guitarist of Junoon, the wildly-popular Pakistani-American rock band which has sold over 25 million albums throughout South Asia-- as many as Nirvana, ZZ Top and Janet Jackson have sold in the United States. Many of his songs have topped MTV India's music charts for weeks on end. Recently, Salman has released an acclaimed solo album, Infiniti, the first Pakistani rock album on iTunes, which continues his exploration of a personal brand of Sufi rock which bings together two of his musical passions: qawwali (Sufi devotional singing) and classic rock - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan meets Led Zeppelin - to express his belief in the power of music to convey messages of world peace. He has also produced It's My Country Too!," an award-winning new film about Muslims in America after 9/11. Salman, a humanitarian and political activist who has been dubbed the "Bono of the Muslim World", is a goodwill ambassador for the UN, acting as the US national spokesperson in the fight against HIV/AIDS and recently joined relief operations for the October 2005 earthquake victims in northern Pakistan. He is also on the board of directors of Breakthrough, an international human rights organization that uses education and popular culture to promote values of dignity, equality, and justice.
-Interview : Sunday Magazine , May 28, 2006 : Exclusivley Salman
- Salman Ahmad at Harvard University - Slide Show
- Rockstar and Mullahs on "Here On Earth" (Wisconsin Public Radio)
For the next three weeks, Salman Ahmad’s documentary entitled “The Rock Star and the Mullahs” will be available for download, free of charge. Anyone can drop by the Here on Earth website to stream the show. If they have an MP3 player (like an I-Pod) they can either download the show to their player. For more details click here...
- Salman's Ghoom Tana with Madonna in Deepak Chopra's new film soundtrack - May 2006
- Nandita Das back in the limelight
April 12, 2006
SALMAN AHMAD JUNOONI RELEASED HIS SOLO ALBUM ''INFINITI'' IN INDIA ON THE 3RD OF APRIL 2006.THE ALBUM WAS RELEASED AND IS NOW BEING DISTRIBUTED IN INDIA BY UNIVERSAL, ...ACCORDING TO PLANET M THE ALBUM HAS MADE IT TO THE TOP TEN BEST SELLING ALBUM LIST IN ONLY 5 DAYS AFTER ITS RELEASE.THE BUZZ IS IT HAS POTENTIAL TO CLIMB HIGHER TAKING THE NO :1 SLOT.
''GHOOM TANA'' , ONE OF THE SONGS FROM ''INFINITI'' IS RUNNING ON MTV INDIA AS WELL AS BEING AIRED ON RADIO MIRCHI ....THE MOST POPULAR MEDIA NETWORKS IN INDIA.
you can click here to listen to samples from the album
- INFINITI PRESS RELEASE FOR INDIA BY UNIVERSAL MUSIC (VATSALA KAUL)
- Rock star's activism inspires Muslims worldwide
- A letter to Salman and Junoon fans from U2 and Bono
Hello Junoon fans! We are U2 fans writing to say hello and to introduce ourselves… We are the Zootopes! (from the name of our forum "Zootopia"). Your man Salman came to our attention after one of our members found an article about him titled "The Bono of the Muslim World" link: (www.beliefnet.com/story/183/story_18350_1.html)
A few among us immediately did some research to find out who this man was (could there really be another Bono-like rocker in the world??? we asked), and we were delighted to find out that not only does Salman have much in common with OUR favorite enlightened rock star, but apparently Bono is also one of Salman's fans!! (Someone found the fan letter Bono had written to him):
Salman,
Just wanted to write you a quick note to say how much we here in the rest of the musical world appreciate what you are doing in your own region for peace. Peace is not an abstract ideal; it’s a concrete thing, brought about by many compromises. Compromise is a word we should cherish. We should embody it, sing it, run it up the flagpoles, chase down the road after it. It’s a psychological state as important as statehood itself. You’re a great man.
Your fan,
Bono
This did not surprise us at all. Junoon's roots in mysticism, Salman's commitment to social justice, and the transcendent guitar notes of the music, reminded us of our great musical love, U2, and turned a few of us into fans as well.
Naturally we immediately asked ourselves…how can we get these two men together on a stage??? So… we are writing to find out whether you guys have any ideas on how to make that happen??
We actually have in mind something even larger…
Art (and culture) humanizes what politics demonize. Salman Ahmad - February 28, 2006
- Salman Ahmad & Farid Ayaz Bring Sufi Music to Stanford...Feb 27
South Asian culture started off with a four hour long program on Sufi Music on February 11th which discussed at length the South Asian Qawwali art form at the Braun Music Center. It was followed by the showing of the Salman’s movie “The Rock Star and the Mullahs” and a discussion on it with Pakistani-New Yorker and Rock musician, Salman Ahmad is one of the best-known Pakistani-South Asian Rockers in the world. Salman Ahmad who makes a serious attempt to explain the place of music in Islamic culture in the film.
South Asian Sufi music with Qawwali (a Muslim Gospel) sung by Farid Ayaz (and ensemble) and a fusion of South Asian mysticism and good old fashioned western Rock and Roll presented by Junooni Salman Ahmad and his band. [more…]
- Salman Ahmad Stages Earthquake Relief Concert at Harvard
- Sufi-Rock and its Political Message Come to KSG and Harvard
- Rahman to rock Stanford Music Fest
- Rock star's activism inspires Muslims worldwide... Jan 1, 2006
Salman Ahmad in the News:
Links to News articles, Blogs and music reviews as Salman tours the globe.
2007 Declared 'International Rumi Year'
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), evaluating the Culture and Tourism Ministry's offer, has decided to commemorate the 800th birthday of Mevlana Jalaladdin-i Rumi, a prominent mystic of Islam, in all member countries.
Salman Ahmad:
Co-Founder of Sufi Rock, which married traditional Sufi music of South Asia to western rock music.