Zebunnisa Bangash

Zebunnisa Bangash or Zeb is an upcoming artist originally from Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. She and her cousin sister 'Haniya Aslam' or 'Haniya' (the duo are popularly known as Zeb and Haniya) started a pop band on their own by writing songs and experimenting, during their college days in 2007. Zeb studied Economics and History of Art and Haniya was pursuing Computer Science and Anthropology in a University in United States. Zeb has been singing since age eight and has been training as a vocalist since 1998 with acclaimed Ustad Mubarak Ali Khan. She is ethnic Pashtun. With Haniya, her first cousin, their first song came to life in sessions at an abandoned cafe in the basement of Zeb's dorm. It is called 'Chup'. Later on in 2008, it became an album having 9 songs named 'Chup". Together, Zeb and Haniya have appeared in three seasons of Coke Studio (Pakistan) since 2008. Both have performed amazing songs of their own amalgamated with the art of the then Coke Studio producer, Rohail Hyat. Since then, popularity of Zeb and Haniya reached in India and was hand picked by the popular music producer A R Rahman. Zebunnisa was asked to sing a solo song 'Ajnabi' in the bollywood movie Madra Cafe (2013) by Rahman, and then had performed a very beautiful song 'Sooha Saha' of Bollywood movie Highway (2014) again for him.