Zeb Bangash

Zebunisa Bangash (Urdu: زیب النسا), better known as Zeb Bangash (Urdu: زیب بنگش), is a Pakistani singer-songwriter from Lahore, Punjab. Her family originally comes from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Apart from her solo career, she was a member of the music group Zeb and Haniya along with Haniya Aslam who is her first cousin.^[1]

Zeb-un-Nisa Bangash
Born	Zebunisa Bangash Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Education	Smith College Mount Holyoke College
Occupation	Singer-songwriter
Relatives	Haniya Aslam (cousin)
Musical career
Genres	Pop, Sufi
Years active	2007–present
Labels	Fire Records, Coke Studio

She has been active since 2008 and is the first Pakistani artist who served as a music director of the Bollywood movie Lipstick Under My Burkha, which received 18 film awards.^[2][3] During her career, Bangash has recorded songs in Urdu, Pashto, Punjabi, Turkish, Persian, Saraiki and others. She has been often seen on the Pakistani television shows Coke Studio and Pepsi Battle of the Bands.^[4]

Career

Zebunisa Bangash began her career with her cousin Haniya Aslam as Zeb and Haniya.^[5] They released their debut album Chup! in 2008.^[6] In 2013, Zeb did a song for the film Madras Cafe and made her debut in Bollywood. She continued her solo career after Haniya left to study in Canada. She sang for the soundtrack of Highway (2014), Bin Roye (2015), Manto (2015), Ho Mann Jahan (2016), Fitoor (2016), Lala Begum (2016), Verna (2017), Parwaaz Hai Junoon (2018), Baaji (2019), Parey Hut Love (2019) and Superstar (2019).^[7][8] She also sung the title track of television series Diyar-e-Dil which won Lux Style Award for Best Original Soundtrack and Hum Award for Best Original Soundtrack in 2016.^[9]

She has sung several songs for Coke Studio.,^[10] including Paimona, Chup, Chal Diyay, Bibi Sanam Janem, Tann Dolay and more. She then also performed a single in the second season of Pepsi Battle of the Bands.^[11] In 2019, she performed "Roshe", a Kashmiri ode to loss in CokeStudio12.^[12]

Zeb Bangash is the first Pakistani artist to serve as music director of an award-winning Bollywood film;^[13]

She is part of the Brooklyn-based ensemble Sandaraa, with the klezmer clarinetist/composer Michael Winograd and a number of other leading Brooklyn-based musicians.^[14]

Personal life

She married on 5 November 2017.^[15]

Discography

Soundtracks

Year	Name	Song	Co-singer	Notes
Films
2013	Madras Cafe	"Ajnabi"		Bollywood debut
2014	Highway	"Sooha Saaha"	Alia Bhatt
2015	Bin Roye	"Maula Maula"	Abida Parveen
	Manto	"Kya Hoga"	Ali Sethi
2016	Ho Mann Jahaan	"Mann Ke Jahan"
		"Dil Pagla"
		"Dosti"	Zoheb Hassan
	Fitoor	"Haminastu"
		"Hone Do Batiyaan"	Nandini Srikar
2017	Verna	"Sambhal Sambhal Kay"	Richie Robinson
		"Khushi Ki Baat"	Haroon Shahid
2018	Parwaaz Hai Junoon	"Naache Re"	Jabar Abbas
2019	Baaji	"Shaam Nasheeli"	Saad Sultan
		"Ik Tu"	Saad Sultan
		"Khilti Kali"	Taha Malik
		"Badlaan"	Saad Sultan
	Parey Hut Love	"Morey Saiyan"
	Superstar	"Bekaraan"	Ali Sethi
2024	Rautu Ka Raaz	"Tere Bina Batiya"	Shafqat Amanat Ali
Television
2015	Tum Mere Paas Raho	"Tum Mere Paas Raho"		Hum TV
	Diyar-e-Dil	"Yaar-e-Mann"	Momim Durrani	Hum TV
2016	Ek Thi Marium	"Pankh Laga Ke"		telefilm title track
	Kösem Sultan	"Kösem Sultan"		Urdu 1[16]
2017	Sammi	"Sammi"	Zaheer Abbas	Hum TV
2018	Noor ul Ain	"Noor ul Ain"	Ali Sethi	Ary Digital
	Kaisa Hai Naseeban	"Kaisa Hai Naseeban"		Ary Digital
2020	Dulhan	"Kya O Mein Dulhan"		Hum TV
2021	Sinf-e-Aahan	"Sinf-e-Aahan"	Asim Azhar	Ary Digital

Singles

Year	Title	Song	Notes
2016	CokeStudio9	"Aja Re Moray Saiyaan"	with Noori[17]
		"Dilruba Na Raazi"	with Faakhir[18]
2017	Pepsi Battle of the Bands	"Sureela Samundar"	[19]
2019	CokeStudio12	"Roshe"	[20]

Awards and nominations

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
Lux Style Awards
2016	"Kya Hoga" – Manto	Best Female Playback	Nominated
	"Yar-e-Mann" – Diyar-e-Dil	Best OST	Won
Hum Awards
2016	"Yar-e-Mann" – Diyar-e-Dil	Hum Award for Best Original Soundtrack	Won