The Pakistani vocalist Asim Azhar launched his music career by uploading cover songs to social media websites as a teenager, then parlayed his success on the internet into a mainstream pop career during his early adulthood. Born in Karachi on October 29, 1996, he was only 16 years old when he began building an audience online. Asim Azhar's reinterpretations of Western songs by Ed Sheeran and others earned him a spot on the 2015 season of the popular Pakistani television show Coke Studio, making him the youngest musician to appear on the program. He performed "Sohni Dharti" and "Hina Ki Khushbu" during his first season with Coke Studio, then returned in 2016 for the show's ninth season. "Tera Woh Pyar," his duet with Momina Mustehsan, became an enormously popular single, receiving more than 100 million views online and earning Azhar a record contract with Universal Music India. A multimedia star, he appeared in the 2017 TV series Pagli as an actor and began scoring a string of hit singles as one of Pakistan's most popular male vocalists, including 2017's Aima Baig collaboration "Teriyaan," 2018's "Jo Tu Na Mila," 2019's Zenab Fatimah Sultan duet "Ghalat Fehmi" (which also appeared in the award-winning movie Superstar), and 2020's "Tayyar Hain."
