He reminds us of the nerdy, awkward guy in school who everyone bullied, but he managed to be more successful than us. PHOTO: SHAFIQ MALIK
Born: Pakistan
Birthday: 1981
Who is he?
He can’t sing, he can’t dance but boy can he sell that one pound fish! Ladies and gentlemen, we present to you Pakistan’s YouTube sensation Muhammad Nazir.
This father of four and market stall trader based in Queens Market in Upton Park, London rose to Gangnam-style level fame last year when his boss asked him to come up with creative ways to sell fish. Nazir decided to sing about his product because he hated shouting, and his singing, bad as it is, changed his life.
He went from being a down-on-his-luck fish-seller in London living on a student visa to being the Pakistani Psy with a record deal with Warner Music. After people taped him and put a video up on YouTube, it received so many hits that he released a professional video, contested on The X Factor.
He convinced so many people to “have a, have a look” at the video that it became the second most Googled video of the year. Now his song has been covered by mainstream UK artists, he’s stormed the top 40 Christmas pop chart and he’s planning on touring France.
Why we’re crushing on him
Some boys have the kind of looks we want to stare at forever, some guys have bodies that leave us girls breathless, some men have insane talent that leave us astounded, but its only one guy in a million who has the kind of luck that Nazir does.
But luck aside, more than anything else is, he has the ability to laugh at himself. He reminds us of the nerdy, awkward guy in school who everyone tortured and bullied, mocked and teased, but the same guy somehow managed to be more successful than anyone else later on in life.
And for that, my friends, can I get a “c’mon, ladies, one pound fish, very, very good and very, very cheap?”
What you didn’t know about him
Nazir used to sing religious songs when he was growing up. Who knew he would go from that to singing about his fish?
Published in The Express Tribune, Ms T, January 6th, 2013.
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@vishnu lol
He is simple, he laughs at himself, and he is successful. He is definitely a Hottie!
hottie who?!!! did you mean the fish?
Next hottie!!!! Rehman Malik
This one pound fish lucky guy really makes my belief further stronger against LUCK and makes me a bit jealous too. Good work anyways!!
I think the only thing which makes this guy Hottie is the fish, which often make others HOT.... Poor Hottie.....
Suggestions for next 3 hotties...saeed ajmal, junaid khan and nasir jamshed :D
3 for 5, one pound each!
Legend!!! Love him
Haters keep hating. Its not him sitting behind a computer typing hate messages
Looks of Mr. Shahid Nazir still Rustic.
@ Shafiq Malik
He can’t sing How do you know he cannot sing ??? it seems you just mocking him rather featuring one who did what other can dream only.
What makes one a HOTTIE?
@Pakistani: Hottie does not mean someone better in looks. It is like anyone who is in Preeminent for any reason and right now he is the only Pakistani who break the Youtube record for most views in one month from our country. So you like it or not he is the Hottie in that case. Anyway Your comment is the reason that i live abroad right now and thanks God I dont look like a Pakistani and whenever some Pakistani meets me i usually tell them I am Afghan or Irani as I can speak Dari so that I can avoid Pakistanis because the only thing Pakistanis can do is to undermine their Fellow Compatriots and to undermine them and even they try hard to pull you from all sides because of sheer jealousy and lots of free time and you belong from the same category of people because of which the people like me conceal their identity to live a Peaceful life.
Hottie!!! Someone is drunk here :)
ROLF. This segment has gone from absurd to funny
this guy is amZing and bring good to pak at least
Well done Nazir! Hope we all get as lucky as you.