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Thursday, April 30, 2020

Nabihah Iqbal: the London musician who got locked down in Pakistan

After losing two years’ worth of music in a break-in, DJ-producer Nabihah Iqbal went to Karachi – and got stuck there for weeks. But she reconnected with her family, the guitar – and a lot of okra

In years to come, Nabihah Iqbal will hopefully look back on the past seven weeks and think that everything happens for a reason.

The London-based musician got stranded in Pakistan’s most populous city, Karachi, on 6 March, having flown out for two weeks to visit her critically ill grandad. Just days before Iqbal left the UK, her studio was burgled, including a laptop containing two years’ worth of original music.

Everybody’s probably thinking: I need to make a banger. Just live off royalties and not have to worry about playing gigs

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by Ravi Ghosh via Electronic music | The Guardian

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