User:Usghouri/Umair Ghouri

"The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right."

Born in Benghazi, Libya on August 28th, 1988, Umair Ghouri's earliest musical influence came from his father, Mohammad Saleem Ghouri who is one in the biggest fans' list of legends of the likes of Muhammad Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar, Kishore Kumar, Hemant Kumar, Manna Dey and many of the great contemporary artists. Umair Ghouri is the youngest among his siblings and his upbringing fitted him to be an avid music listener because of his family. By the mid of 90's his family shifted and settled in Hyderabad, Pakistan where he continued his studies. Just before entering into university, an acoustic guitar was gifted to him by his elder brother and here the spark of music ignited in him.

Later on, in January 2007, Umair got admitted into NED University of Engineering & Technology Karachi in Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering. In the meanwhile, he was offered to join the band "The Zeest” at its inception as co-vocalist and lead guitarist.

Umair extracted the best out of the Zeest by his unique and prolific style of playing. He contributed a lot of his compositions, song writings and ideas towards the band, giving Zeest a prominent & towering slot in live concerts and studio recordings. The band not only performed a number of concerts in universities and colleges but also starred internationally on musical tour to a country such as Nepal, showing their commitment to make it big.

In the summer of 2011, Umair left The Zeest due to some professional and personal critical reasons and announced his arrival to mainstream as solo. Umair has brio written all about him when it comes to music. His compositions have that great empowering attraction as to picturise what he says in his lyrics with grazioso. His personality has that vivacity about him that automatically makes him a favourite amongst the youth, and that is what he intends to achieve: to tap into the intellects of the masses, awakening in them a sense of true social responsibility.