World music Artist Mahmood Khan’s popularity sky rocketed after his appearance on ‘The Kerri Anne’ show where he became the first Pakistani Artist to perform on Australian National Television.

Mahmood Khan is known for his timeless recordings with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, for scoring a number one International single with his song ‘Like the River’, which was recorded Live at Sydney Opera House and now for carving his own niche audience using Internet technologies.

The program ‘Mahmood Khan- Celebrates 50 Million views- Special TV program- airs Live on Youtube on Aug 14th.
http://www.youtube.com/mahmoodkhanvideos

Mahmood Khan

Mahmood Khan

So this pretty much confirms that the time is here when Independent, regional and indigeneous Artists can build a massive audience in the cyberspace playing field.
Yes, internet alone has become powerful enough to establish careers. Its the medium where everything solidifies, persistence pays off and compromise is not required of Artists in order to achieve their personal and professional objectives.
Case in study is the success story of Mahmood Khan.

How did he do it?
How does he see the relationship between Artists and Internet in this new playing field?
What kind of resistence did he face and how high were the hurdles?
Why was he banned on mainstream media in India and Pakistan?
What led him to become a copyright Activist?

To get a glipmse of his outstanding journey log onto Youtube.com/live for a Live Broadcast on Aug 14th, 7pm.

Khan is known for his work with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, for his International number one single ‘Like the River’ and his contribution to the global music scene for inventing a new genre ‘World/Pop’

Dont miss the Special TV performance on ‘The Kerri Anne show’ Aug 10th.

Official Site
Songs R People
Mahmood Khan Youtube Channel

songs are people

World music Artist singer/ song writer Mahmood Khan along with his 12 member band MKF is set to take the stage at the Holi Festival being held in Sydney, Australia on March 19th 2011.


Khan is known for his recordings with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and for being the first Artist from the Indian region to score a number one with his song ‘Like the River‘ recorded Live at the Sydney Opera House, on the Australian pop charts.
He is strongly influenced by American Funk music and fuses it with elements of Qawali, Pop, Folk, MOR and Gypsy genres.
He names Barry Gibb and John Farrar as his songwriting influences, working as a hip hop producer in LA for his groove development and looks upto Van Morrisson, Paul Simon and John Denver.
In the world of sound engineering he studied Humberto Gatica and Karl Richardson extensively. As a music producer he loves the work of Mutt Lange (Mostly the Shania Twain albums), Giorgio Moroder, Barry Gibb, Steve Winwood and Laxmikant/Pyarelal.
The vocalist in him is inspired by the clarity of Cliff Richard, phrasing of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Johnny Cash, the truth of Kishore Kumar and the knowledge of Aziz Mian Qawal.
This ultra modern and diverse fusion of influences expresses itself through his polished song writing that eveolved over time. This old school investment came naturally to him as he found his solace in writing songs. His voice is a unique Eastern instrument and is the core element of his sound that cant be placed in any genre. It is ‘new sounding’ and falls under a new genre ‘World/Pop’.
Now with Australian audiences responding to his passion and his online views reaching 20 million on Youtube, he is back in the studio to write fresh songs and to finish the screen play of the motion picture ‘Labrador’.
For more details on the Holi Performance please go to www.songsrpeople.com

Mahmood Khan is a Gibson Artist.
Where: Tumbalong Park, Darling Harbour, Sydney
When: March 19th 2011,3 pm How much: Free for All

Holi Festival Facebook Event Page
Join the Mahmood Khan Facebook Fan Page
Mahmood Khan’s Catalogue/video portal Site
Mahmood Khan songs on Youtube
Mahmood Khan videos on Youtube
Mahmood Khan’s Photography on Youtube

Watch out for Promos starting on SBS television, Australia on Feb 18th.

Please join us on March 19th for Mahmood Khan’s performance at the Indian Holi festival in Sydney. ( Indian colors festival)
This will be a free for all concert. Stay tuned for venue and time announcements.

Mahmood has been working on writing the screen play for film ‘Labrador’. He will be directing this full length feature film and is working on the music for the film as well. A new Youtube channel has been put together for this project and will be updated regularly. Veteran musician and producer Dennis Poore who runs the Showdown staging company in Los Angeles is the producer of the film.
The screen play is being developed by Mahmood Khan and the team of Cindy and Flip Kobler known for writing Disney’s Lion King 2.
http://www.youtube.com/labrador

Pursuing his passion for still photography a new Youtube channel has been set up that will feature still pictures taken by Mahmood along with his songs. Launch date for this channel is 29th Dec
http://www.youtube.com/mahmoodkhanpictures

A new Video portal site is also being upgraded and set up for launch in the next 2 weeks. This site will offer all Mahmood’s songs, film shoots, documentaries and will allow fans to purchase music.
songsrpeople.com

Please check back for more developments.