Poor Rich Boy
Poor Rich Boy are a Lahore band making indie rock, folk and pop in Urdu and English, with Umer Khan on vocals and Zain Ahsan shaping the music and production.
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Apple MusicOverview
- Based in
- Lahore, Pakistan
- Started
- 2008
- Core partnership
- Umer Khan: vocals and words; Zain Ahsan: music and production
- Early breakout
- Alice, Fair Weather Friend and the Old Money EP
- Languages
- Urdu and English
Mini bio
How it started.
Poor Rich Boy began in Lahore in 2008. Founders Shehzad Noor and Zain Ahsan first played as an acoustic duo, then expanded the group and performed at The Guitar School. Noor began writing with Umer “Duck” Khan, who had already been sharing songs online. One of those songs became Alice.
Finding their audience.
Alice and Fair Weather Friend helped the band build an audience before their five-song debut EP, Old Money, arrived in 2012. They recorded it themselves and marked its launch with shows at True Brew Records in Lahore. In a later interview, Khan recalled how the EP helped connect them with Mekaal Hasan and his studio.
Taking the songs further.
Their first US tour came through the Center Stage cultural exchange in June 2014. The band later developed a growing Urdu repertoire alongside their English songs. On Khudi Kya Hai?, Khan and Ahsan set poetry selected by Allama Iqbal’s grandson Walid Iqbal to music, in a project with Mekaal Hasan.
The partnership today.
Khan describes his part as words and harmonies, while Ahsan concentrates on production. Their recent work includes Confidence, the English album preview Mother’s Favourite, the Wasim Akram tribute Fan, Hitsong and the ZAKII collaboration Takiya.
Creditschronological, newest first
- 2026TakiyaPoor Rich Boy with ZAKII; Umer Khan on vocals and writing, Zain Ahsan on acoustic guitar and production
- 2025HitsongUmer Khan: writing and vocals; Zain Ahsan: recording, arrangement, production, mix and master
- 2025Mother’s FavouriteUmer Khan: writing and performance; Zain Ahsan: recording, arrangement and production
- 2021Khudi Kya Hai?Performers; poetry by Allama Iqbal, selected by Walid Iqbal; executive producers Mekaal Hasan and Walid Iqbal
- 2021YaqeenUmer Khan: writing and performance; Zain Ahsan: arrangement, engineering, mix and master; Umer Ahmed: percussion
- 2019KaghaziUmer Khan: lyrics and vocals; Zain Ahsan: engineering, mix and production; Ali Suhail: harmony
- 2012Old MoneyBand; debut five-song EP
Awards
Quotes
Truth is, we would keep making songs even if we had no audience at all.Umer Khan, in conversation with Instep
Discussing the response to Khudi Kya Hai? and the encouragement the band receives from listeners.
Trivia
- The name came from Shehzad Noor’s sister calling him a poor rich boy when he was complaining.
- Umer Khan’s nickname is Duck. Before joining the band, he had already been making songs online.
- Their early recording setup included a makeshift cubicle built from spare mattresses and borrowed microphones.
- Fan is a tribute to Wasim Akram, the Pakistani fast bowler known as the Sultan of Swing.
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