How does it feel like to be a in a band, be a popular name? Hamza answers: ‘Pretty good actually, when you’re up there on stage playing, you get an adrenaline rush, you get excited, you know billions of people are watching but you’re in your own world. It feels good at the end of the day when people appreciate’.
What do you do in the band, your role, besides being the guitarist? Hamza replies, ‘I do whatever is needed! I do composing which basically defines the theme, the genre of the music, the feel, the environment you are trying to build within the song, so you make a melody or a tune according to that. Staying within these lines and then whatever sounds you like. It’s very different to describe it in words, but it’s to make you feel what I feel, with the help of sounds, that to me is composing’.
Why have you succeeded in a field where so many others have failed? For which I get an interesting reply, ’Music is something that if you are good at it, I guarantee that there is no
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He got confused! His answer, ‘Limelight from who? Jealousy between who?’ Then I asked him that generally between the band members. To which he gave a very engaging reply!
‘I love all the people in my band, they are like another family to me. None of us have that lime light stealing thing going on and there is no jealousy at all, because we love to be in each other’s company. We miss it a lot when we are not together! Sure there are fights or someone gets upset but that happens when there is a lot of love’.
You have brought innovation to the table that is mash ups, how do you feel about that?
‘We have been doing mash ups for a while now, but the whole east meets west bit was Mehak’s idea, so the credit goes to her. I just tweaked it a bit from here and there’.
What’s the magic formula for success?
‘Hard work and lots of it’.
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