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M. Ashraf At His Best Instrumental (Album) by Tafo Brothers

Artist Biography For Tafo Brothers

The Two Tafo Brothers Are Tabla Maestro Altaf Hussain Tafo Khan And His Brother Nisar Hussain On The Accordion. Altaf Hussain Tafu Khan Better Known As Ustad Tafu Or Simply Tafoo Alternate Spellings Tafo Tafu Taffoo Is A Musician From Lahore Pakistan Known As A Master Tabla Player. Ustad Tafu Is Especially Adept At Playing The Musical Instrument Tabla And Is Called The Tabla King In Some Music Circles. He Is The Father Of Musicians Tariq Tafu Tanveer Tafu & Sajjad Tafu. Ustad Tafu Was Born In In 1945 In Lahore To A Musician's Family "a Part Of A Musical Legacy That Spans Seven Generations." Ustad Tafu Started His Career In 1970 When His First Film Song Sunn Wey Balori Akhh Waaliya As Music Director Sung By Noor Jehan Was Featured In Movie Anwara 1970 . Ahead In The Following Year 1971 One Of His Hit Chartbusters-- Mahi Keh Gaya Milan Ga Main Fer Aa Ke Te Dass Ke Tareekh Na Gaya Released In Movie Sajawal. Another Film Song Was In Film Sohra Te Jawai 1980 Sung By Noor Jehan Lyrics By Khawaja Pervez "Rab Jane Sahnoon Te Tu Maar Suttia". Ustad Tafu Has Composed Music For Over 100 Films And Has Worked With Music Artists Such As Noor Jehan Shaukat Ali Inayat Hussain Bhatti Nahid Akhtar And Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. As Leading Exponents Of Lahore’s Vibrant Self-Contained Film Industry The Brothers Tafo Gave Lollywood Its First Rock Group In The Form Of Their Expanded Sextet Commonly Known As Tafo Or Taffoo To Punjabi And Urdu Listeners. Mostly Instrumental In Composition The Sibling Writing Team Emerged In 1970 Providing Incidental Music And Sonic Variations For Lollywood Love Stories Under The Direction Of Pakistan's Freakish Equivalent Of Rahul Dev Burman Mr. M. Ashraf. With Ashraf Tafo Would Enjoy Over A Decade Of Film Scoring And Musical Experimentation At The Expense Of The Hi Tech EMI-Funded Recording Studios In Lahore. State Of The Art Echo-Plexes Primitive Drum Machines Analogue Synths Fuzz Pedals And Man-Made Mayhem Provided Many Otherwise Mundane Film-Scenes With Playful And Infectious Freak-Rock Courtesy Of These ‘behind-The-Scenes’ Legends Who Would Also Be The First Lollywood Group To Record Their Own Rare Pop LP.

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