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Rohail Hyatt

روحيل حياة

4 December 1966 CE · 22 Sha'ban 1386 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Pakistani record producer, keyboardist and composer, born in 1966 at Rawalpindi. He founded the band Vital Signs in 1986 and composed 'Dil Dil Pakistan'; after the band ended he founded Pyramid Productions, composed the soundtrack of the film Khuda Kay Liye (2007), and as the founding producer of Coke Studio Pakistan from 2008 reshaped his country's popular music. He received the Hilal-e-Imtiaz.

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At a glance

Roles: producer · composer · musician
Region: South Asia
Identifiers: Wikidata

Life in time

The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani · Abbas Kiarostami · Abd al-Aziz al-Ghumari · Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghudda · Abd al-Halim Mahmud

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Sources

Rohail Hyatt — English Wikipedia
Rohail Hyatt — Urdu Wikipedia
Rohail Hyatt — Wikidata

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islam.museum contributors. “Rohail Hyatt”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/rohail-hyatt/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-06.

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