In 1981, an unlikely trio of outsiders helped strengthen cultural unity between India and Pakistan. As the age-old rivals experience fresh hostilities, we revisit a legendary album that's come to represent peace around South Asia.
Disco Deewane, the hit LP by 15-year-old singer Nazia Hassan, her brother Zoheb and producer Biddu Appaiah, took the world by storm, topping the charts in India, Brazil, Russia and South Africa. It was the best-selling Asian pop full-length at the time.
The Hassan siblings were British-Pakistani, singing in Urdu on an Indian label with an Indian producer—a rare cross-border collaboration for the era. Mixing synth pop and bright-eyed Balearic rhythms, the LP ignited disco fever around South Asia and beyond.
"Nazia was a true global pop icon who shone a light for South Asian women and artists of her generation," Indian jazz heroine Asha Puthli told @nyshkachandran.
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