If you have the sprit of passion never give up !

Q magazine calls them "One of the biggest bands in the world!" Billboard credits them with being "the subcontinents biggest crossover success after the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan." The New York Times described their music as "Pakistani rock mixed with religious rapture".
Before a performance at The House Of Blues in funky Los Angeles, the L.A. Times spoke of Junoons "ability to captivate audiences" "inspiring Beatles-like reactions." Pretty inspiring stuff itself. Theyre a pretty inspiring band.

Salman Ahmad, then a medical student in Lahore, played music while he studied to be a doctor. Flirting with public performance then, one time he was up on stage and launched into a version of Van Halens Eruption. The crowd remained seated in shock.

Salman first tasted commercial music success with his group, Vital Signs. These were just four guys playing, in the autumn of 1987, sweet melodies, gentle vocals and a very, boy-next-door image. Salman left Vital Signs just as they were beginning to do really well in 1992. He formed Junoon. To the rest of the world, giving up medicine was misguided, but giving up a potential commercial success to play guitar rock was just stupid. To Salman, it was fate.

Salman brought to Junoon a young singer called Ali Azmat. Azmat, just 22, had two essentials. A huge rock voice and a warlock like stage presence. Ali had also studied business in Australia and sung with a series of Lahori bands, including Jupiter. (In fact, at a historic meeting of the subcontinents best bands, Junoon and Silk Route, they performed an old Jupiter hit, Dosti.)

Brian, was working with developmentally disabled adults in New York. Salman asked him to take a sabbatical in Karachi and help work on Junoons album. Hes now lived there for five years, married a local model and settled down.

Line Up:
Salman Ahmad Guitarist, Songwriter

Ali Azmat Lead vocalist

Brian OConnell Bassist

Malcolm Goveas Percussionist