Farzana Wahid Shayan delivers incredible insight into life and beauty through speech and music. "Meet our speaker, infamous singer Farzana Wahid Shayan

Shayan finds life to be her first teacher, muse and motivation. withstanding that, she admits her debt of knowledge to some of the most renowned global musicians from the yesteryear as well as from the present music scene.

She writes, tunes and sings her own songs which she considers a life saving practice from a very early age and prefers to sing with a purpose she discerns more constructive and rewarding. The musician writes topic based songs as a part of her passion and profession, and she gathers her muse from the life she leads and the characters she is surrounded by. The topics of her songs usually revolve around random tales from her personal life, feminism, child rights, patriotism, humanity, compassion, youth spirit and mental health which she interprets in her own terms. Her songs are intended to convey a plea or prayer and a protest to her fellow people she sings to and She prefers to label her songs as 'Pro-life Songs'

Since the very beginning of her career, the musician has been working closely with different kinds of human rights organizations. Via her songs, she has been contributing in our society to change it for betterment and to elevate the awareness level amongst the masses. She had been working in collaboration with many government and non-government organizations by voicing her thoughts on different social issues.

One of the most distinguished features of Shayan is that, she writes her own lyrics and composes tunes for them herself. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx