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Kami Paul (born May 25, 1988) is a Pakistani drummer and multi-percussionist. He is best known for playing with the Pakistani rock band Noori and sufi rock band Meekal Hasan Band. He has been a session drummer for many other renowned artists; Atif Aslam, Ali Zafar, Quratulain Baloch and Meesha Shafi. He is famous for his overseas performance in 2015 in one of the world's biggest music festival South by SouthWest. In 2013, Along with Shehzad Roy, he shared the stage with Guns N Roses ex-drummer Matt Sorum to raise charity for under privilege kids, organized by Zindagi Trust and Adopt the Arts In 2012, he played with Zeb and Haniya in Center Stage tour organized by U.S State department. He played with Walnut Studios, Pakistan Superstar and Drum Circle. Currently, he is associated with Noori where he has recorded their latest album Begum Gul Bakaoli Sarfarosh and playing with them in live shows.

Early Life
Kami Paul, born in Karachi, Pakistan in a family of musicians where his father Robin Paul and his paternal uncle Joel Paul were pop singers. He started his career with a local band, Josh where the lead vocalist Auragzaib Hasan Ali Pirzada (aka zaib) was his teacher as well. He explored his passion for drums at a young age of 10 and started learning drums. He took his training for 4 years from zaib. He recorded an album 'Save the World' with Robin and Joel Paul and later on proceeded as studio engineer and producer. In 2010, he left Karachi and started his life in Lahore where he had his first break with Ahmed Jahanzaib. He is seen in jamming with Avirbhav Verma

Music Career
With more of a Funk genre and almost after a year in 2011, he came in contact with Raga Boyz (band created by sons of famous classical singer, Hamid Ali Khan) where he started playing as a session drummer. In the same time span, Amir Azher noticed him playing at a gig and referred him to Meekal Hasan Band. This reference lent him a space in Meekal Hasan band along with which he played with other artists as well. This proved to be the right step as it is where he started his world tours with South by SouthWest. Fahad Khan, former MHB drummer spoke about the dearth of drummers in Pakistani music scene and spotted how it gives him a sense of satisfaction when drummers like Kami Paul and Aahad Niyani come up with absolute passion and dedication of drums. He stepped into Bollywood with a song 'Mann Bavra' from the film Gippi. His journey as a session drummer has started where he played next with Zeb and Haniya and performed live at various stages including the Center Stage. The event included a number of festivals and workshops. In 2014, he is seen performing live at Music Mela Conference.

Following his ventures in music industry, he was offered by Noori not just to perform live but to record an album as well. Hamza quoted his style as groovy and credited him to be the reason of their album's exploratory and bouncy style. Paul stepped up further with other renowned artists of the country with either playing as a session drummer or a percussionist. He made his way through with several artists and still doing so. He is often seen performing with Overload, Meesha Shafi, Ali Zafar, QB, Atif Aslam, SYMT, Jimmy Khan and many others. Drum Circle, his latest venture sponsored by McDonald's where he performed with many other drummers including Gumby. The live performance was a gesture of patriotism where the bunch of drummers performed national anthem which went viral after its release on August 14th, 2015.

Influences
Kami Paul is greatly influenced by Chris Daddy Dave, Dannis Chambers, Eric Moore and Chris Coleman.

Setup

 * Tama, hyper-drive custom


 * Inches

Cymbol

 * Zildjian
 * 14 inch HI-HATS
 * 16 inch Crash
 * 18 Inches Crash
 * 20 inches Ride

Sticks

 * Vicfirth 5A  teardrop tip

Albums

 * Begum Gul Bagoli Sarfarosh (2015) - Noori
 * Let's Pretend (2011) - Fables of Cantt

Singles

 * Dil Pagla (2015) - Zeb and Haniya (featured in Ho Mann Jahan)
 * Mann ke Jahaan (2015) - Zeb and Haniya (featured in Ho Mann Jahan)
 * Barish (2015) - Jimmy Khan (featued in Ho Mann Jahan)
 * Sarak Sarak (2014) - Mai Dhai (also featured in Ho mann Jahan)
 * La Gorey (2014) - Mai Dhai
 * Foolin' (2014) - Jamal Rahman, Shehzad Noor and Sameer Ahmed
 * Mann Bavra (2013) - Gippi
 * Gal Sunn Ja (2013) - SYMT
 * Aisey Kaisay (2012) - Jimmy Khan
 * Mori Araj Suno (2012) - Atif Aslam (featured in Reluctant Fundamentalist)