Smooth operator

Faisal Kapadia smiles readily. His deep, smooth voice is as warm as his handshake, which retains a whiff of Benson & Hedges cigarettes. He is relaxed as he speaks. He mixes an artiste's philosophy with a businessman's sense of analysis, and appears to have a memory for numbers.

Like Maqsood, Kapadia had an early baptism in music. He started singing at age nine, when he appeared on Pakistan national television in a children's programme called Saray Dost Hamarey.

"I was a child performer on television, but never thought of taking it up as a profession until I met Bilal," he says. "He used to compose songs and I was enamoured by the fact that we never thought of doing covers of popular songs."

Kapadia, a Cancerian, is married to Seema. They have a son, Armaan.

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