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An Introduction

ABOUT

Prince Imran

Prince Imran Raza is the descendent of two significant, deeply accomplished and respected aristocratic families of South Asia. Originating from Bihar, India, the Prince has spent decades honing his activism through music, entertainment, and entrepreneurship. Prince Imran has received a rigorous formal education from the University of Southern California, which he uses regularly in his activist, entrepreneurial, and philanthropic endeavors.

He is most celebrated as a multi-faceted Sufi-Rockstar, having won the Hollywood Music in Media (HMMA) Award for the World Category in 2011 as lead vocalist, writer, and producer for his band, Sonic Ashtanga.

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Raza is best known for his rock-ragged voice that hearkens back to the illustrious days of rock and roll. However, at the core of his lyrics are the values of liberty, plurality, and human rights. The universal quality of these values anchors Raza's ideology: music translates across the human consciousness and penetrates in a way that is more fundamental than words alone.

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SERVICE

Activism & Special Projects

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Sonic Ashtanga

While Prince Imran’s musical interests and success have spanned several bands and projects, he is most renown as a lyricist, producer, and writer. His most notable project is his genre-bending Sufi Rock band, Sonic Ashtanga; a collective of Sufi Qawwali superstars collaborating with iconic Western music superstars.

Currently a huge sensation in Asia, Sufi Rock is a new genre in music emerging which combines mystical eastern music and western iconic rock sounds with Prince Imran at the forefront of the movement. His popularity gained momentum and spread across the Asian continent when Sonic Ashtanga’s singles "Fly with Us," "The Bombs of Dhamma,” “Be Like the Onion”, and most notably, “Hammarah Ghar” (Our Home) all played hourly on MTV Asia music stations with “Hammarah Ghar” condemning the Taliban and gaining the support of the Pakistani government. Visit the website.

Activism

Hammarah Ghar
"Our Home"

In early November, Prince Imran traveled to Karachi to record and produce what has become Sonic Ashtanga’s anti-extremist anthem, Hammarah Ghar (Our Home). The Pakistan ISI approved a conflict zone camera crew to enter into refugee camps to document the immediate appeal the song was having amongst the refugees.

Upon completion of the song in mid November of 2009, it was broadcast throughout Pakistan on civilian radio stations, as well as the North Western Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan through sympathetic contacts within the Pakistan Army’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI). As the camera crew collected footage, Geo Television, Pakistan’s largest television network, edited this with performance footage of Prince Imran, Wajji of the Sufi-Pop super-group Raeth, and renown Sufi flutist Rahat Ali Khan.

Produced by Wajahat Rauf, who went on to produce and direct the smash hit Pakistani movie, Karachi Se Lahore, the video explores the pain and anguish the violence of terrorism wreaks upon innocent civilian populations all over the World. The song features Wajji of Sufi-Pop supergroup Raeth, 3 time Grammy winner Anton Pukshansky, Rahat Ali Khan. This video went on to experience hourly play on MTV Pakistan and Geo Channels well into the summer of 2011. Watch here.

Activism

"Fly with Us"

In 2005, Pakistan's Army invited Imran Raza to the historic opening of the line of control between India and Pakistan following the devastating Kashmir earthquakes. During the trip, Raza wrote "Fly with Us", a song inspired by the disturbing increase in suicide bombings within Pakistan during 2005. After he performed the song a capella at a Pakistan Army function, the Islamic militant group Jamat Al Dawa kidnapped and planned to execute Raza. The Islamic militants released Raza when it was confirmed that he is a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad. See the documentary footage here.

Activism

Karachi Kids

In 2008, Imran’s in-depth investigation as part of a yet-to- be-released documentary titled the “Karachi Kids,” led him to meet two American born kids of parents of Pakistani origin who were getting an ‘education’ in a Pakistani madrassa. Instead of the boys getting the peaceful Islamic education people were led to believe, they were actually getting radicalized. Prince Imran created a documentary showing the steady progression of the radical mindset the two American-born kids were unwittingly learning.

He then pursued additional support, ultimately getting a US Congressman involved in negotiating with the President of Pakistan to arrange the release of these and other American boys from relevant radicalizing madrassas. Prince Imran paid for the airfare and other transportation costs for the boys to be brought back to the United States.

The discovery of the two potentially highly dangerous terrorists caused a stir in the Homeland Security circles, especially so in the media. Virtually every major US television network, and several of the most listened to radio talk show hosts, interviewed Prince Imran.Watch the trailer here.

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Khan Brothers

One of the Karachi Kids Imran helped in 2008

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Lives Saved
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150000
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