A tale of forbidden love with an infectious hook, Ali Sethi’s song “Pasoori” has become an international phenomenon, fusing poetic tradition with global beats to fuel the rise of the Pakistani singer’s star.
“As a Pakistani I’ve grown up with that… ‘Oh you can’t do this because it’s prohibited, yada yada.'”
He says he drew on Punjabi folk songs of his youth, imbuing the lyrics with puns and double entendres, “a nice way to slip in and subvert orthodox views without really appearing to be out beyond the veil.
“Bringing my stuff to dialogue with it feels very exciting,” Sethi said, adding that it’s helped him embrace a multiculturalism that societal strictures had denied. “What we can’t do over there we can do over here,” he said as he grasped Kumari’s hand onstage following their electrifying “Pasoori” duet. “There’s all kinds of forbidden love represented here today.”Sethi has toured recently across the United States and Canada, in cities where he can reach fans in the Indian diaspora.
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