The All Girl Band also known as TAG is a Pakistani all female musical group. It is currently the only female musical group in Pakistan. The first all female group was the Benjumin Sisters. The band was formed in 2016. Its current members are Anna Salman on lead vocals and guitars, Amal Nadeem on the violin, Mishal Faheem on drums and Sumera Waris on the tabla.
The band is known to have the first female drummer of Pakistan Mishal Faheem and the first female table player Sumera Waris in its lineup. They gained fame through covering the John Newman song Love Me Again in the fourth season of Nescafe Basement. The band was featured alongside a group of other female musicians from many places such as Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar and Quetta. They were part of the band as well but left due to personal reasons. The song was appreciated by John Newman himself who appreciated it on his Twitter.
They are better known for doing covers but they do original songs as well. The band performed their original Middle of Nowhere in the second season of Levis Live. The lead vocalist Anna Salman was nominated in the Best Emerging Talent category at the 2019 Lux Style Awards for the song.
Members Anna Salman and Amal Nadeem made another appearance in Nescafe Basement in Season 5. Both members appeared in the title track of the season titled Jaagna Toh Parega. Amal Nadeem played the violin and provided backing vocals to the cover of the song Mehbooba in the season which was originally by singer Haroon Rashid better known as Haroon who appreciated the version.
The band is known for their covers and mash ups. They have covered and mashed up John Newman’s Love Me Again with the Game Of Thrones title track. They have also covered and mashed up Are You With Me by the Belgian DJ Lost Frequencies with Laree Chotee by the Pakistani rock band Call.
TAG has performed in different places in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. They will be also performing in Hyderabad in a few days with the Romanian dance pop band Akcent for the first time. The band has also conducted sessions related to breaking gender roles in different places in Pakistan as well such as the Lahore University Of Management Sciences (LUMS) and the University Of Central Punjab (UCP) in Lahore.
The band has also collaborated with clothing brands like Khaadi and Ideas Pret showing them moving from an underground scene to a more commercial scene. They performed the song Choo Liya Aasman in association with Khaadi and a cover/mash up of Jimmy Khan’s Baarish and Jason Mraz’s I’m Yours in association with Ideas Pret which featured Aarij Hashmi, Samiya Ansari, Noor Ali and Ali khurshid.
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