Although Deeyah no longer performs, her music releases have achieved critical acclaim and massive success across the world. All of which have cemented her as one of the world’s best pakistani muslim female singers.
Deeyah revisited her musical roots and beginnings in 2008 on her album titled Ataraxis. Having already worked with such maestros and musical greats in her career as Ustad Fateh Ali Khan, Ustad Sultan Khan, Ustad Shaukat Hussain Khan, Knut Reiersrud, Nazim Ali Khan, Jan Garbarek, Ustad Zakir Hussain, Audun Erlien, Talvin Singh, Attaullah Esa Khelvi, Morten Harket, AR Rahman, David Lindley, Guy Sigsworth, Asad Amanat Ali Khan, Paolo Vinaccia, Rick Nowels, Billy Steinberg and many more.
Special guest musicians on Ataraxis are the legendary two-time Grammy Award-winning jazz pianist Bob James; fellow Grammy Award winner Andy Summers, the guitarist and composer best known for his work in The Police, and acclaimed Norwegian trumpet player and composer Nils Petter Molvœr.
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Single releases:
Deeyah made an impact on the charts across the globe with the following singles.
- Plan Of My Own (2005) | iTunes
- What Will It Be feat. Young Maylay (2007) | iTunes
Previous releases under Deeyah’s birthname Deepika
Deepika [album - 1996]
I Alt Slags Lys [album - 1992]
Other releases:
Liquid Stranger: The Intergalactic Slapstick
Kaya Project: ‘And So It Goes’
‘Yeh Hum Naheen’
Paul Oakenfold: Perfecto Chills
Dario G album Sunmachine
Vande Mataram by A. R. Rahman
The Sweet Sunny North
Anders Wyller: Father’s Land (‘The Sea’)
Ragas and Sagas