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Alam Lohar (Muhammad Alam Lohar) was born on 1928 in Village Achh near Kotla Arab Ali Khan, Gujrat, Punjab British India (now in Pakistan), is a Folk singer. Discover Alam Lohar's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 51 years old?

Popular As Muhammad Alam Lohar
Occupation Singer, musician, poet
Age 51 years old
Zodiac Sign
Born 1928
Birthday 1928
Birthplace Village Achh near Kotla Arab Ali Khan, Gujrat, Punjab British India (now in Pakistan)
Date of death 1979
Died Place Sham ki Bhattian, Punjab, Pakistan
Nationality India

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Alam Lohar was a prominent Pakistani Punjabi folk music singer.

He is credited with creating and popularising the musical term Jugni.

1928

Alam Lohar was born in 1928 in Achh, near Kotla Arab Ali Khan, Gujrat Tehsil, Gujrat District of Punjab, British India.

He was born into a family of blacksmiths.

As a child, Lohar read Sufiana Kalaam, a collection of Punjabi stories and poetry and started singing from a childhood age.

His family and children now live all around the world with most of his children in the UK.

Alam Lohar modified a new style of singing the Punjabi Vaar, an epic or folk tale which made him popular when he toured villages and towns in the Punjab region.

He is famous for his rendition of Waris Shah's Heer along with other songs such as Saif ul Maluk.

1950

Throughout the period of the 1950s and until his death in 1979, he had dominated folk singing in Pakistan and was a major singer in Punjabi and Sufi singing worldwide.

Some of Alam Lohar's songs have achieved critical acclaim and have contributed to the music and culture of the Punjab, most notably Jugni, Bol Mitti De Baweya, Mirza Sahiban (he was the main Punjabi singer to bring this story into a song format singing in a very distinct style – Jhori (double flute) & Chimta with a high pitch vocal) Wajan Mariyan Bulaya, Saif-ul-mulook, Dil Wala Dukhra and Shahbaz Qualander (Dhamaal).

Alam Lohar is regarded as one of Pakistan's iconic performers who still remains popular in the region.

In memory of Alam Lohar the Government of Pakistan has named a road after him which runs from his birth village Aach to the main Grand Truck Road which is known as 'Alam Lohar Road'.

In memory of Alam Lohar, there is a visual theatre depiction of him performing which is on display at the Lok Virsa Museum in Islamabad.

1965

He recorded his first album at the age of 13 and throughout his career he accomplished 15 Gold Disc LP's (record sales) for the following with mainly EMI/HMV Pakistan and other regional companies within Pakistan: Jugni (1965), Saif ul Mulook (1948), Qissa Yusuf Zulaykha (1961), Bol Mitti de Bawa (1964), Dilwala Dukhra (1975).

1970

Then he started going to festivals and gatherings on a regular basis and with these performances, he rose to become one of the notable singers in South Asia during the 1970s.

In the 1970s, Alam Lohar started to tour different countries including United Kingdom, Canada, Norway, United States and Germany to entertain the South Asian communities living in those countries.

1977

In the memory when he met with an accident and received an injury at leg and call for help to people but no one came to help, he created a lyrics.... Wajan Mariyan Bulaya (1977), Qissa Mirza Sahiban (1967), Qissa Hirni (1963), Maa Da Pyaar (1971), Heer (1969), Qissa Sassi Pannu (1972), Qissa Baraa Maa (1974), Jis Din Mera Vayaah Howega (1973), Qissa Dhulla Bhatti (1959), Mirza De Maa (1968).

In his childhood he used to read Sufi poetry (sufiana kalaam), Punjabi folk stories and participate as a young child in local gatherings expressing a vocal only art form in reading passages of great poets.

1979

Alam Lohar died in an accident near Sham ki Bhattian on 3 July 1979 when a heavily loaded truck collided with his vehicle because the truck failed to overtake his car.

He was buried at the outskirts of Lalamusa on GT Road in Pakistan.

2010

Alam Lohar's death was unexpected, many singers in Pakistan and India including Lal Chand Yamla Jatt, Noor Jehan, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan expressed sadness on the passing of Alam Lohar in a television broadcast on the 10th anniversary of Alam's death.

One of Alam Lohar's sons namely Arif Lohar followed the tradition of his father and is also regarded as a famous folk singer in Pakistan.