Performance · Other credits

Salman Ahmad

Salman Ahmad is credited on 24 releases across 12 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1989–2010 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

View as artist →

Photo of Salman Ahmad

24

Pressings credited

12

Albums

4

Decades active

In collections

Biography

Salman Ahmad (Urdu: سلمان احمد, born 12 December 1963) is a Pakistani born-American musician, rock guitarist, physician, activist, occasional actor and professor at the City University of New York. He earned nationwide popularity in 1998 for his unique style of neoclassical playing in rock. An early engineer of the Vital Signs, he formed Junoon (lit. Passion) in 1990 with American bassist Brian O'Connell and pioneered the Sufi influenced rock music in Pakistan. He started his activism in the mid-1990s and has been involved in two BBC documentaries concerning the issues in Pakistan such as society, education, religion and science. He has served as the UN Goodwill Ambassador for HIV/AIDS Programme towards spreading awareness about HIV in South Asia. While working with Pakistan's media to help initiate peace between India and Pakistan, Ahmad continues to produce documentaries and solo guitar albums. At present, he is a tenured professor at the Queens College of the City University of New York. With Junoon band having been disintegrated, Salman continues to perform as a solo artist under the "Junoon" label and has moved to New York and released one album, "Infiniti" (2005), as a solo artist.

Bio from Wikipedia

Credited work

24 releases · 12 albums · active 1989–2010

  • Performance · 61
  • Other credits · 53
  • Production · 7

Studios: Grand-Vu Studio · Amir Hassan Studios · Meekal Hassan Studios · EMI Studios, Karachi

Frequent collaborators

  • Junoon
  • Vital Signs (6)
  • Junaid

Around the web

See who really made the music.

Gatefold maps every producer, engineer, and player across your shelf — the credits no one else surfaces.

Start your shelf →

Free forever. Works with 10 records or 10,000.