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Pakistani pop/rock band

This article is about the band. For the band's self-titled album, see Strings (Strings album).

Strings (Urdu: اسٹرنگز) was a Pakistani pop/rock band composed of two members, plus four live band members from Karachi, Pakistan. The band was initially formed by four college students—Bilal Maqsood (vocals and guitars), Faisal Kapadia (vocals), Rafiq Wazir Ali (synthesizer) and Kareem Bashir Bhoy (bass guitar)—in 1988. In 1992 the quartet disbanded, only to make a comeback with Maqsood and Kapadia in 2000. While the initial band rode the new wave of Pakistani pop music, the later lineup ushered a revival in the Pakistani music industry.

In 1990 the band signed with EMI Records and released their debut album, Strings. Their initial experiments with synthesized sounds and rhythms were not immediately recognised, although Strings sold 20,000 copies during its first week after release. Two years later the band released their second album, 2, which included the critically acclaimed single "Sar Kiye Yeh Pahar". The song was first aired on MTV Asia, and led the band to widespread fame. After the release of 2, the quartet disbanded to focus on their studies and careers. In 2000, Maqsood and Kapadia released Duur, which revived the band's popularity, and followed it with Dhaani in 2003. This album included the single "Najane Kyun", which was part of the soundtrack for the Hollywood filmSpider-Man 2. Following Junoon and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Strings went to India (where they found remixes of one of their early songs playing in clubs). In 2008 Strings released their fifth album, Koi Aanay Wala Hai, with the singles "Yeh Hai Meri Kahani" and "Aakhri Alvida" (included on the soundtracks for Bollywood's Zinda and Shootout at Lokhandwala). The album was co-produced by Bollywood actor John Abraham, and was successful in Pakistan and India.

Strings are recognized for their stringed rhythm

Dr Kelly Fagan Robinson

Kelly is a Leverhulme and Isaac Newton Early Career Fellow in the Department of Social Anthropology, and a Fellow and Postgraduate Tutor at Clare Hall.

Her research focuses on the senses, disability, communication and social access. She foregrounds the ways that social relations contribute to constructions of categories of personhood, and how these definitions inform knowledge-making particularly within the arts and in public systems of care.

Kelly conducts research into why embedded perceptions of difference contribute to inequalities, as well as how dominant communication modes influence knowledge-making processes and understanding.

Her work on the CRUK project, 'Elusive Risks', has helped to re-contextualise the category of 'hard-to-reach’ populations within the contexts of cancer, risk and care. It has worked to facilitate greater understanding of various seldom-heard peoples' concerns about screening and other early detection programmes.

Her Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship project, Communication Faultlines on the Frontlines (2021-2024), will chart and analyse the ways that individual experiences, bodies, and moral judgments contribute to specific definitions of ‘worth’, ‘effects’, and ‘support’ at the coal-face of British benefits assessments.

Kelly's advice

The most important lesson for me, one I have to re-learn every day, is that you can only be where you are. As someone who came to postgraduate study after spending ten years in a totally different career, I often felt I was ‘behind’ my peers. It’s easy to lose sight of what you bring with you when you begin something new, whether it’s moving to a new country or starting a new role, project, area of research, or in becoming a partner, a parent, a reliable friend and colleague.

Learning that to each beginning we