INFORMATION
| Artist Birtday : | 19/08/1951 (Age 74) |
| Occupation(s) : | Playback Singer,Actor,Composer,poet |
| Genres : | Folk music,Ghazal,Playback singing,Film |
Attaullah Khan Niazi (AKA Attahullah Khan Esakhelvi (born 19 August 1951), also known as Lala (meaning “elder brother” in Pashto and Punjabi ), is a Pakistani musician from Isakhel, Mianwali, Punjab. The Government of Pakistan awarded him the Sitara-e-Imtiaz on 23 March 2019 and he also got the Pride of Performance Award in 1991.In 2011 he appeared in Coke Studio (season 4) and sang 2 songs Ni Oothaan Waale and Pyaar Naal. In September 2017 he appeared in Coke Studio (season 10) a second time and sang Sab Maya Hai with his traditional loving sound.
Esakhelvi continued his training after leaving his parents’ home and often recorded himself on cassette tapes that he later distributed.
In 1972, Esakhelvi was invited to perform on Radio Pakistan, Bahawalpur. That same year, he performed in a concert in Mianwali, Punjab, Pakistan. Esakhelvi performed on the television show Neelam Ghar in 1973.
He was invited by a company in Faisalabad to record folk songs in their studio, and he recorded four albums in one recording session. The albums were released at the end of 1977 and became national bestsellers.
In 1980, Esakhelvi performed in the United Kingdom for the first time. It was also his first concert abroad. His albums were eventually released in the UK under various labels, including Hi-Tech, OSA, and Moviebox.
He has performed Na`at and Kalaam by famous Sufi poets, such as Mian Muhammad Bakhsh’s Saiful Maluk and Bulleh Shah’s Keey Bay Dardan Sang Yaree. He also sang the songs written by S M Sadiq, a famous lyricist, in Punjabi, Urdu, and Hindi. Attaullah Khan visited India in 2014. The Times of India wrote: “A Sufi concert, Ibaadat, organized in association with the Navbharat Times, was recently held at Purana Quila in the capital. Pakistani folk singer Attaullah Khan performed for the first time in Delhi at this event. Khan sang his Achha Sila Diya Tune Mere Pyaar Ka and other Pakistani Sufi hits for the audience. The concert was organized by the AAS group, an NGO that works to spread awareness about cervical cancer among women and ways to prevent it, and this concert was organized to spread that message.”
