Aamir Zaki

Aamir Zaki is a musical genius. He is a multi-instrumentalist, as well as a vocalist and songwriter. But it is his guitar playing that established the man as a virtuoso of the first water. He decided to get serious about the guitar at age 13, and the axe-work of players like David Gilmour, Eric Clapton and Carlos Santana (courtesy his brother’s record collection) added fuel to his fire. But rock was just one part of Zaki’s equation, as his father listened to jazz records (Charlie Bird), while his mother opened young Aamir’s ears to Mehdi Hasan. Surprisingly, Zaki is self-taught, learning his guitar basics from a ‘how-to-play’ book he brought from a Tariq Road bookstore.