Music: A Language We All Speak with Mekaal Hasan
"I don't want perfect. Perfect is boring.”
In this episode of This Being Human, host Mai Habib chats with Mekaal Hasan, a renowned Pakistani musician to discuss his lifelong journey of connecting the worlds of traditional South Asian music with more contemporary genres like rock, jazz, and fusion.
Growing up in Lahore, Pakistan, Mekaal was heavily influenced by his father, a music critic and a columnist. In 1995, he graduated from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, and returned to Pakistan where he founded the Mekaal Hasan Band in 2001.
Mekaal’s mission is to create music…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.