Jaan Nissar Lone is an Indian singer and music composer. He is famous for his Hindi song “Rubaru” from the Bollywood film Ginny Weds Sunny. He is well-known for his Kashmiri Sufi Songs. He is the CEO and founder of Kashmir’s first international music record label, “AR Music Studios.” He has worked with renowned Bollywood singers like Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Shaan, and many more.
Wiki/Biography
Jaan Nissar Lone was born in 1985 (age 38 years; as of 2023) in the village Sheeri, Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir, India. He completed his high school at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Shahkote, Baramulla. He did graduation at the University of Kashmir. He pursued a master’s degree in Indian And Western Music, Music Theory, and Composition at Trinity Music School, London. After completing his formal education, Jaan Nissar moved to Mumbai and started his music career.
Physical Appearance
Height (approx.): 5′ 10″
Hair Colour: Black
Eye Colour: Black
Family
Parents & Siblings
There is not much information about his parents.
Wife & Children
Jaan Nissar Lone is married to Rani Hazarika, a Bollywood playback singer who has done many songs with him. Together they have a son named Raah Nissar Lone, who has appeared in the song Rouvmut Dildar.
Jaan Nissar Lone with his wife, Rani Hazarika, and son, Raah Nissar Lone
Religion
Jaan Nissar Lone follows Islam.
Career
Music
Hindi
He was the music director for the Hindi-language film Shudra: The Rising, released in 2012. Jaan Nissar Lone sang the song “Allah Teri Kya Shaan Hai” along with singer Kamal Khan for the film “18.11: A Code of Secrecy,” in 2014, and he was also the music director of this song. In the film Pranaam, released in 2019, he composed the music for the song, “Rann Ki Dahaad.” Jaan Nissar was a singer and composer of a romantic Hindi song released in 2019, under the label of “Rajshri,” Khuda Meherbaan. He collaborated with the famous playback singer Richa Sharma and directed a song “Mere Ali Moula Ali,” with T-Series, in February 2022. He produced and composed another song “Ve Diljaaniya” with Richa, in January 2023. He released a Hindi song “Malanga – Sab Se Unchi Yaar Faqeeri,” in July 2022, under his own production house “AR Music Studios.”
Poster of Jaan Nissar Lone’s song Ve Diljaaniya
Kashmiri
Jaan Nissar Lone hails from Kashmir and wants to represent Kashmiri folk music worldwide. So he has made many beautiful Kashmiri compositions. He produced the Kashmiri song “Maayi Chaney” in the film Half Widow, in 2017. He composed a Kashmiri folk song “Harmukh Bartal” (2018), which got featured in a Hindi web series “The Family Man,” season 1. In 2019, Jaan Nissar composed a song “Salam E Wazwane” about Wazwan (Kashmiri Multi-course meal), sung by his wife, Rani Hazarika, promoting the traditional Kashmiri social function cuisine. He was the singer and music composer of the song “Rouvmut Dildar,” in which his son, Raah Nissar Lone, appeared as Zian. “Pannun Watan” is a song in which Jaan Nissar displayed his talent for singing and playing musical instruments Rubab (the national musical instrument of Afghanistan, commonly played in the northern part of India and Pakistan), and Melodica. In November 2022, he released the song Wafa Kartum, which he sang along with Rani Hazarika. He composed and sang a spiritual track “Qarar Rouvum,” with the female singer Sniti Mishra, in December 2022.
Poster of Jaan Nissar Lone’s Kashmiri song Qarar Rouvum
Awards, Honours, Achievements
- Jaan Nissar received the first Late Kundan Lal (KL) Saigal Award along with his wife, Rani Hazarika, in Jammu & Kashmir International Film Festival held by Pune-based NGO Sarhad, in 2022.
Jaan Nissar Lone, while receiving Late Kundan Lal (KL) Saigal Award along with his wife, Rani Hazarika
- He was awarded Dada Saheb Phalke Fashion Icon Life Style Awards 2022 for “Best Music Director.”
Bike Collection
He owns a Royal Enfield bike.
Jaan Nissar Lone’s Royal Enfield
Facts/Trivia
- In May 2023, Jaan Nissar attended a conference at Armenian Parliament to promote Sufi music worldwide.
Jaan Nissar Lone at Armenian Parliament
- Jaan Nissar Lone attended the Global Business Summit 2023 in Varanasi, India.
Jaan Nissar Lone at G20 Summit
Jaan Nissar Lone’s invitation to Global Business Summit 2023
- He got nominated for Mirchi Music Awards 2022 for his song “Rubaru” from the film Ginny Weds Sunny.
Nomination of Jaan Nissar Lones’s song Rubaru
- He was the guest celebrity at Miss, Mr. & Mrs. India Pacific 2018.
Jaan Nissar Lone’s Invite to MS, MR. & MRS India Pacific 2018
- He also directed a Kashmiri romantic sad song “Durey’r Dooriyan.”
- He collaborated with Master Saleem and composed the song “Fariyaad” in 2019.
- His contribution to Kashmiri culture and tradition through his music earned him the title “The Valley’s Jaan.”
- Jaan Nissar’s company “AR Music Studios” owns the right to more than 3000 songs.
- Apart from playing Rubab and Melodica, he also plays the guitar.
- Almost all the Kashmiri songs composed by Jaan Nissar Lone have been shot in Kashmir.
