‘Our wedding gave Pakistan a crash course on Gilgit’ — Hasan Raheem on his wedding going viral
The singer said he was surprised by all the love he received from fans on social media.
Hasan Raheem revealed he developed an unlikely fanbase after all the media coverage his — actual — wedding received last year: Pakistani aunties.
The pop star talked about his marriage and newfound followers in an interview with Haroon Rashid on BBC Asian Network.
Raheem said he was glad he got married, joking that he thinks his wife “likes the attention” she gets from the relationship. “Honestly, I’m like, ‘It just took like six years to be a star and look at you, like two days and you’re everywhere’. And she’s like, ‘Stop it, Hasan.’”
The singer called marriage the “best decision I did”, adding that the wedding took place at “a crucial point in my life, going through a lot of stuff”.
He said the cultural aspect of the wedding was very important to him, so he got married “in the most authentic Gilgiti way”.
“Everyone had to see that side of me. What’s better than doing it on your wedding?”
What Raheem didn’t see coming was the outpouring of love he received and not just from fans either. “I was not expecting it to blow up so much. Like, I get aunties meeting me who are not fans of my music. They’re like, ‘You got married!’ I’m like, ‘What?’”
The star recalled an incident when he was flying within the US and talked to a woman whose daughter wanted to attend his concert in Washington DC.
She asked him to get her daughter tickets and while Raheem got on with arranging passes, the woman stopped him and said, “One second, beta, listen to me. You’re the Hasan who got married, right? I know you!”
“The wedding had a separate fanbase,” he told Rashid.