Alamgir's lyrics & chords

Alamgir (Urdu: عالمگیر) is a famous Pakistani pop singer of the 1970s, who is in fact one of the pioneers of the Urdu pop music in Pakistan. Alamgir was born in 1954 to Bengali parents in East Pakistan, which is now Bangladesh. He studied in P.A.F. Shaheen School, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He left home at the age of 16, in search of his destiny. He brought with him his guitar and an extra shirt and a small tape recorder. He did not know anyone in Karachi and desperately was in search of a job. He worked in Karachi, playing guitar, at a small ca...read more