Aly Baig

*More information about Aly Baig can be found on his official website.*

**Muhammad Aly Baig** (Urdu علی بیگ‎; born June 9, 2003) is a Pakistani musician, songwriter, pianist, and a record producer. His sensational piano recordings and folk songwriting, has been recognized globally. Born in Karachi, Pakistan, he pursed in music career in 2018 on *YouTube* & *SoundCloud* anonymously, with a successful viral track, he got signed by *Interscope Records*.

In 2019, he released his debut single *That Old Town*. In January 2020, he released his second single *B&W Rainbow* and a week later, he released his debut instrumental studio album *Nostalgia*. On January 17, he released a cover piano song of Billie Eilish *lovely*, which received responses from all over the world. He later this year did two collaborations *KISSES* and *Yaadein*. He also released his biggest hits this year *ADRENALINE* and *First Murder*, and also worked with *Netflix* for a official composition for *13 Reasons Why*. In late 2020, he released his first violin-piano composition *Colors Aren't Real*, and later his debut instrumental cover E.P *dark aurora*.

## Early life

Baig was born on June 9, 2003, Monday, in Karachi, Pakistan and was raised in the same place. He was born in a Muslim family. He was born to a well staged TV CEO Advertising man *Qamar Alam Baig*. Since the beginning, Baig had expensive education. During his elementary & secondary school he always joins group choir and also took piano classes in the school. At he age of 14, he started practicing piano through apps and physical sessions and gradually improved himself for future.

## Music career (Discography)

### **2018-19: Musical beginnings**

At the age of 15, Aly started making instrumental compositions, mostly on piano. He used to put that recordings under a name **Violence NSFW** on YouTube & Soundcloud. One of his track got more than 500 thousand listening on Soundcloud.

   In July 2019, a music producer from *Interscope Records* contacted him through email and convinced him to sign a record deal, as Baig was not professional at that time he asked the producer to give him a month to think. In August, 2019, Baig signed Interscope Records for his next releases.

### **2019: New Beginning & That Old Town**

In December 2019, Aly with help from his label made his profiles all over social media and announced his debut studio single releasing via *Universal Music Group*, *That Old Town*. On December 27, 2019 he released the single globally.

### **2020: B&W Rainbow & Nostalgia**

On January 3, 2020, he released his second single *B&W Rainbow* and also announced his debut studio album *Nostalgia*, a album made entirely with piano and unreleased recordings from his previous year. On January 10, he released the album including *That Old Town* and the led single *B&W Rainbow* and 5 other tracks naming *Bicycles*, *Polaroid*, *Noir*, *Nostalgia* and *Radio 7*. *Bicycles and Polaroid* were the ones that increased the sales of the album and *B&W Rainbow* went No. 17 in France, No. 25 in Japan, and No. 75 in United Kingdom in Top 100 on *iTunes Charts January*. Over all performance of the album was successful with over 12 million streams all across and made Baig won ***YouTube Music Award 2020*** *for Best Solo Composition by Independent Artist*.

### **2020: lovely, Kisses & Yaadein**

On January 17, 2020, right after his album release he released a cover piano instrumental *lovely* of original Billie Eilish and he told on a Instagram story that Billie Eilish was one the artist that inspired and motivated him with other like Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and One Direction. Later in March and early April he did a song *KISSES* with *MarcC* who is an American Independent Pianist and he also did a collaboration with an Indian musician *Shabbir Khan* on *Yaadein*.

### **2020: Adrenaline**

After a long break, Aly announced his new single release named *ADRENALINE* on Twitter & Instagram. On May 8, 2020, he released this single which as the name proposes was a beat piano music, which was liked by a majority of people. This is was the first song by him on which he worked with different producers and audio engineers for productions.

### **2020: Netflix's The Night We Met**

In June, Baig was contacted by Netflix for a instrumental version of the original song *The Night We Met* for Netflix's highest grossing series *13 Reasons Why*. Aly did the piano version of the song for the series season 4 which was released on June 5, 2020.

### **2020: Productions on "VACATION"**

On June 18, 2020, *Tyga* released his new singe VACATION, which was produced by Aly Baig entirely with help from *CashMoneyAP'. This increased Aly Baig's media worth and received articles from all over the world.*

### **2020: United Nations**

In May, 2020, it was announced that Aly had become an official volunteer for United Nations for Public Health & Civil Rights, later in March, 2021, he was signed as Independent Director for UN volunteering program in United States and Canada. He serves and promote regular messages by United Nations, UNICEF, UNESCO, and UNFoundation on social media.

### **2020: First Murder**

On June 9, 2020, Baig announced his single *First Murder* on a Instagram story. After almost a month of waiting, the recording was released on June 26, 2020, Friday. *First Murder* was the first song Aly had vocal backgrounds in too which was done entirely by an American vocalist *Hailey Ballion* and the engineering of the song was done by *Stefan Kasher*. With a fire sun ground on cover art

    , this single represented intense darkness and it became Baig's biggest hit till present 2021, with over 5 million streams alone, this composition went straight No.1 on iTunes and Apple Music on UK Piano Charts.

### **2020: Colors Aren't Real & dark aurora**

After a long exam break, Baig returns and announced his new single *Colors Aren't Real* to release on November 28, 2020. The first song in which he did a piano-violin combination music. Resources tells us that during the exam break, Aly learned violin but this is not confirmed by the musician itself. *Colors Aren't Real* was a very soft beautiful composition pressed on the cruelties of people and world, it also debuted to No. 3 on iTunes Canada, Aly's second song to debut on Top 10 iTunes Charts followed by "First Murder" on iTunes UK. Two days after release Aly announced his debut studio E.P *dark aurora*, which was a cover e.p from tracks including *exile* by Taylor Swift, *hold on* by Chord Overstreet, *the one that got away* by Katy Perry and *i'll never love again* by Lady Gaga, released on December 5, 2020.

### **2020: Morbius's Fur Elise**

On December 14, 2020, Aly did a recreational composition from the trailer music of *Sony Pictures & Marvel Entertainments's* Original Picture *Morbius*.

### **2021: My Nostalgia Radio**

"**my nostalgia Radio**", is an upcoming radio show by Aly Baig. It is being produced through Apple Music and is expected to began airing in June of 2021.

### **2021: Green**

After months of work on production, Aly finally announced his unrevealed most waited single **Green** on June 9 on his 18th birthday, fans were already excited when he posted bunch of pictures from Chalice Studio on final recording day, the single will be releasing internationally on June 18, Aly also shared that he collaborated with *One Tree Planted* for deforestation and green harm awareness and said to be donating 12% of the proceeds from the release of Green.

## Songwriting

Baig's way of writing songs is more like on a story. His written songs feels more like reading a story. Most of his writings are on his personal life and past. Aly likes writing on genres such as *Romance*, *Teen* and *Folk*.
Baig puts more efforts on the way of tuning rather on lyrics, which gives his song a very classical folk style like the way he wrote *now when you are gone* & *Free*.

## Writing

Since the start Aly has a deep interest in writing and reading apart from his music career. He usually writes on short notes and occupational motivating forms of writing.

## Dignity Records

On July 1, 2020, Aly announced his biggest work ever of starting his record label to what he named Dignity Records. The logo was made entirely by him.

. The record label flourished and helped him increased his net worth to USD 20,000 total. The label have 300+ artists signed to them and also works on music marketing and publishing.

## Official Accounts

* Twitter
* Instagram
* Spotify
* YouTube
* YouTube VEVO
* TikTok

## Discography

### Albums

* Label: Interscope
* Format: CD, cassette, digital download, streaming, vinyl, box set

### Extended play

* Label: Dignity
* Format: Digital download, CD

### Singles

* *That Old Town* (2019)
* *B&W Rainbow* (2020)
* *lovely* (2020)
* *KISSES* (2020)
* *Yaadein* (2020)
* *ADRENALINE* (2020)
* *The Night We Met (From Original Television Series "13 Reasons Why")* (2020)
* *First Murder* (2020)
* *Vevo Original "Cardigan"* (2020)
* *Colors Aren't Real* (2020)
* *Fur Elise (From "Morbius")* (2020)
* *Green (2021)*