Webdesk: Natasha Baig’s fame was rough. Music gave her much but took her father’s love.
Her father, a prisoner of superficial conventional views about women in music, abused and judged the Gilgit Baltistan singer.
Baig discussed her music career, father, and cricket-to-music shift on Mooroo’s podcast.
Natasha Zakir (Baig) stopped cricket because her father disapproved. He urged me to take my aptitude exam for MBBS, but I was depressed because a doctor’s degree took sports from me. I wanted athletics. Music was a hobby, so that took precedence.”
Baig’s father was anxious about her singing and was “scary angry” when he thought she sang Anjaana Anjaani’s 2010 song Tujhe Bhula Diya. Visiting from Dubai, this song played. Dad inquired, “Did you sing this?” He didn’t trust my “No, of course not,”
Papa, it’s from India. Bollywood. India’s who? It’s illogical. He raged. Really angry. She remarked, “It was scary,”
Six years separated my father and me. I started music in Dubai. A cousin posted a video on Facebook, and extended family members named my father and criticised me. Instead of being hated, parents should talk to their kids. He never instructed me to quit. How come? No. He empowered the post. “He joined them,” she cried.
“I don’t hate or complain now because he’s dead,” she cried. He died in 2020, therefore these things are unjust, but parents should know what not to do with their kids.”
Baig said family who opposed her now approach her. I wanted to disprove him and everyone. Not right. Is it because I’m Hunza? Why? No issue. I altered. #DaughterofGilgitBaltistan hashtags made her smile.
