Zebunisa Bangash (Urdu: زیب النسا), better known as Zeb Bangash (Urdu: زیب بنگش), is a Pakistani singer-songwriter from Lahore, Punjab. Her family originally comes from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Apart from her solo career, she was a member of the music group Zeb and Haniya along with Haniya Aslam who is her first cousin.[1]
She has been active since 2008 and is the first Pakistani artist who served as a music director of the Bollywood movie Lipstick Under My Burkha, which received 18 film awards.[2][3] During her career, Bangash has recorded songs in Urdu, Pashto, Punjabi, Turkish, Persian, Saraiki and others. She has been often seen on the Pakistani television shows Coke Studio and Pepsi Battle of the Bands.[4]
She has sung several songs for Coke Studio.,[10] including Paimona, Chup, Chal Diyay, Bibi Sanam Janem, Tann Dolay and more. She then also performed a single in the second season of Pepsi Battle of the Bands.[11] In 2019, she performed "Roshe", a Kashmiri ode to loss in CokeStudio12.[12]
Zeb Bangash is the first Pakistani artist to serve as music director of an award-winning Bollywood film;[13]
She is part of the Brooklyn-based ensemble Sandaraa, with the klezmer clarinetist/composer Michael Winograd and a number of other leading Brooklyn-based musicians.[14]
