Pakistani musician Faisal Kapadia appeared in an interview with an Indian publication and opened up about the Strings split.
The Duur singer shared, “Bilal and I have had this discussion of when to end it. Of course, we could have gone on to play till we were 65-year-old but then we didn’t really want it to come to a point where it started feeling like a chore, or we started getting bored.”
Kapadia revealed two major reasons for the band’s break-up, firstly, both Bilal Maqsood and he were worried that they might stop enjoying music and secondly, they just realized that they have been missing out on things.
Kapadia went on, “The pandemic in a way helped us to get that perspective. It wasn’t as if we didn’t enjoy our tours and concerts. But for the last 30 years, that’s all we’ve done, and we missed seeing our kids grow up. They are now about to graduate and go to college, and suddenly we realised there’s this whole other life that we are missing out on.”
He added, “The roof that was there for 33 years is now suddenly gone. But we had to do it someday, and this was the best time.”
While talking about receiving love from India, Kapadia stated, “The kind of love we got after announcing the breakup is what people usually get after they die. But we got to see it while we are alive and I am just so thankful and so grateful for all of that. It has been the most overwhelming and most humbling experience (to see the kind of reaction we got). It was something we did not anticipate at all.”
He further said, “I am still speechless when I think about the kind of love we got from India. They never ever made us feel like we were outsiders or we were from Pakistan. In fact, when they learnt that a Pakistani band called Strings was performing, they started making more noise and they started enjoying more!”
He also said, “And then we got to work with some amazing human beings and some awesome musicians like Hariharan, Indian Ocean, Sona Mohapatra and so many others. It was just beautiful, the entire journey."
Talking about future plans, Faisal said, “I haven’t spoken to Bilal honestly about what he is going to do, but I think he wants to explore the world of music production.”
He concluded, “As for me, I am yet to go to that bookstore and pick up the book about my life where I can know what my next chapter is going to be. I am still processing all this as of now, and I have to yet figure out what I want to really do. Of course, I have been doing music for over 40 years now, so I won’t just stop doing that.”
