Ali Azmat

Ali Azmat Butt (born 20 April 1970) is a Pakistani singer-songwriter, musician and actor. He is best known as the lead singer for the influential Sufi rock band Junoon and for his subsequent solo career later followed by a career as an actor as well. In 2001, with Junoon, he became part of the first Pakistani band ever to perform at the United Nations General Assembly. Early life Ali Azmat was born in Havelian, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where his grandfather was posted as station master of Havelian railway station. He grew up in Garhi Shahu, Lahore, into a family of ethnic Kashmiri descent and speaks Punjabi as his native language. His father Nazir Ahmed Butt was a middle-class businessman who died in 2013. Azmat went to Sydney, Australia, for his higher studies but soon returned to Pakistan before completing university.