"After working as a session guitarist and doing the gigs for years, I realised the only way for me to evolve as a musician was to create and release my own songs and enter my name in to the list of Pakistani singers. So HERE I AM."
My music starts where a comfortable relationship between world rock and pakistani beats, rhythm and tunes develop.
Tahir Abbas started learning guitar when he was a teenager. Guitar helped him grow a close association with rock and pop music of the world. but since he was born and grew up in Punjab Pakistan, he has very close association with the sound, rhythm and beats of Punjab. Each element brings a unique musical aesthetic to his music and over the years these elements has grown a comfortable relationship with each other.
Tahir Abbas is a Pakistani singer, guitarist, and songwriter based in Dublin Ireland. His journey of music started in 2002 when he joined Jupiters band as a lead guitarist. Jupiters released a song “Bawa” at that time. He left Jupiters band in 2007 and formed a new band named “Mashal”. He also sang the only song released by Mashal with title “tu kiu dur he”. During this he was also working as a session guitarist for various top Pakistani male and femal singers like Shiraz Uppal, Ali Zafar, and Fariha Pervez.
In December 2011 he moved to Ireland. Where he got his masters degree in Education from Waterford Institute of Technology.
He reappeared in Pakistani music scene in 2020 with his first solo artist single with title “Raahi” that scored number 1 position in Patari top chart. ( https://www.dawn.com/news/1533028 ) This song was released in a music show “In The Box”. Tahir Abbas also played lead guitar in different songs of the same show like “ae muhabbat” by Ali Raza Khan, “Machli Pani” by Saad Sultan and Fatima.
Tahir Abbas has played lead guitar in several Pakistani drama OSTs like “ranjha Ranjha Krdi”,”Inkar”, “Phans” and many other.
Tahir’s music is available on all major music streaming platforms and stores like google music, youtube music videos, spotify, amazon music, deezer, apple music.