Shae Gill lights up New York Times Square

'I believe that women need more such opportunities,' said Pasoori hitmaker

Nearing a year of celebrating astounding women artists, Spotify EQUAL Pakistan announced the voice behind Pasoori, Shae Gill as its Ambassador for the month of December, stated a press release.

The global program featured Gill’s track Sukoon, a soulful melody about finding peace in solitude, as the highlighted track on the platform. To top it all off, like all previous ambassadors, the popular artist lit up a digital billboard at Times Square NYC.

Anushae Babar Gill, who became known popularly to us as Shae Gill, hails from Lahore and is amongst the freshest sensations that the local industry has produced. Starting off as a cover artist on Instagram in 2019 debuting with a song like Pasoori, and now being the most streamed Pakistani female artist on Spotify this year as revealed by Wrapped 2022, Gill has made her mark and has come a long way.

"I feel incredibly humbled and honored to be representing all the women in the music industry who are making the world a more equitable place,” said Gill about her announcement as the EQUAL Pakistan Ambassador for the month. “I believe that women need more of such opportunities," she added further.

Gill dropped two successive tracks in the winter of 2022, the first being a cover of the much-loved, traditional wedding song Lathay Di Chadar. Her most recent offering, Sukoon, the collaboration with the songwriter-singer duo of Hassan and Roshaan, has audiences reminiscing about the glory days of Nazia Hassan. The track has that appeal!

Sukoon’s audio was originally out in October, but the music video was released recently – and it was worth the wait.

Hassan and Roshan took to Instagram to share the clip and wrote, “When the director heard the song, he said the song gave him a sense of peace coupled with melancholy. Like a goldfish in a fishbowl, zindagi haseen bhi hay, tanha bhi hay [life is also beautiful, life is also lonely). A goldfish in a bowl, perhaps the prettiest, loneliest thing one could visualise.”

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