Hottie of the week: Muhammad Shahid Nazir

He reminds us of the nerdy, awkward guy in school who everyone bullied, but he managed to be more successful than us.

Status: Married

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 6^th, 2013.

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