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Junoon at the Village
Underground
Nov 13, 2002NEW YORK: Nov 13 (PNS) - Junoon, leading Pakistani band rocked New
York City with a startling performance at Village Underground on November 6th,
2002. Junoon who is on there "Junoon''s Passion for Peace Tour" had another sold
out night where they entertained the crowd with Pakistani music with a blend of
western touch.
They recently received a complementary letter from U2''s Bono about there work
and showed there appreciation by singing a single from U2album among lot of
cheering from the crowd.
Junoon recently released their first English song No More dedicated for the
victims of 9/11. They were the only Pakistani band present at the Daniel Pearl
Music Day on Oct 10 on request by Judea Pearl (Father of Daniel Pearl) Salman
Ahmed said, " We were happy to perform. Judea Pearl asked us and we feel for
him, especially because this murder took place in our back yard, in Karachi.
Danny had been a big music fan and had listened to `Parvaaz'''' [Junoon''''s
1999 release] and so if I can do anything to ease his father''s pain and
participate in this day, I want to. What happened was totally condemnable."
Association of Pakistani Professionals (http://aopp.org) congratulated Salman
Ahmed and rest of band. S. Asif Alam of AOPP said that Junoon has shown true
Pakistan to the world by projecting its rich and tasteful music to the western
world and have rightly projected Pakistan as country of peace loving people by
dedicating there song No More to the 9/11 victims.
PakNews
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