KARACHI: Turkish singer Evdeki Saat, who recently collaborated with Pakistan’s Shae Gill for Coke Studio Global, has heaped praise on the Pakistani singing sensation and described her as a “great musician,” following the release of their song ‘One Love.’
One Love was released on June 23 as part of Coke Studio Global Season 2. The song is about love and connection, and brings together Turkish, Pakistani and modern music cultures.
The Season 2 lineup features 19 breakthrough artists, including Gill, Saat, Afroto from Egypt, Shreya Ghoshal from India and Korea’s NewJeans, brought together to create music collisions.
Commenting on the venture, Saad said the project was itself very “exciting” and he always loved to connect with other musical cultures.
“Shae is a great representative of her culture, also a great musician and personality,” he was quoted as saying in a Coke Studio global statement. “I enjoyed the challenging process of our decision on making of the song.”
Saat himself is a rising musician of alternative pop in Turkiye, whose claim to fame is 2020’s ‘Uzunlar V1,’ which has crossed 120 million views on Spotify. Saat made his debut with ‘Biraz Olsun’ on YouTube that garnered appreciation for the singer through the word of mouth.
Saat said he wanted to experience a global collaboration in his music career.
Born and raised in Pakistan’s Lahore, Gill’s journey began at a friend’s home from where her renditions of old classical songs gained popularity on social media.
“The inspiration for the track was based around the themes of romance, new love and the open expression of love,” she said One Love.
The Pakistani singer said Saat was a “gifted” musician and it was a pleasure for her to collaborate with him.
“On top of that I felt like we made a lot of sense musically and that just made this collaboration all the more exciting,” Gill added.
Gill shot to fame last year with her chart-topping track ‘Pasoori’ alongside renowned Pakistani singer Ali Sethi in Season 14 of Coke Studio Pakistan. The song with over 800 million views on YouTube got global recognition and made it to Google’s list of songs most hummed to search as well as the most searched song on the search engine.
The Coke Studio Global Season 2 was conducted by Grammy-winning American singer and composer Jon Batiste.
Joshua Burke, Coca-Cola’s global head of music & culture marketing, said it was all about bringing “incredible musical talent” together.
“Collisions are central to Coke Studio and are all about bringing incredible musical talent together across genres and cultures, to create fresh new sounds,” Burke was quoted as saying in the statement.
