The Renaissance music changed very much from the Middle Ages.

One of the main different styles of music was Motet, which was a vocal composition primarily during the 14thcentury. Another type of music during the Renaissance was Mass, which was a part of the text of a Roman Catholic set to music, to be sung by a choir. The last Major music kind was Madrigal, a song with parts for several, usually solitary voices, that was popular in England in the 16thand 17thcenturies.

Greensleeves is one of my particularly preferred songs. Greensleeves (a madrigal song) might have been written by Henry the VIII. Madrigal used singing and instruments to perform songs. Madrigal also started secular songs. These songs didn't have to do with religion. People started to write secular songs because they wanted to explore thoughts other then religion. This intrigued people to have fun with music and people did. Songs weren't so gloomy now, as they were in the middle ages.

Renaissance music was so different from before, everyone could just love music. People sang more, learned to play more instruments and read music! There was just so much to do and learn in the Renaissance in all topics!

It no longer seems to be about the music, and is all about the politics, with all the Eastern countries sticking together and voting for their neighbours. This has become more and more apparent over the last few years, but even more obvious this year.

Our song titled “Even If”, has got to be one of the UK's best entry for a long time, and Sir Terry Wogan even commented “It's a disappointment,considering that Andy Abraham gave, I think, the perfomance of his life with a song that certainly deserved more marks than it got.”

When you see the marks that other songs got that were totally ridiculous in every way, you can understand why even Sir Terry himself is wondering whether to continue to be part of the annual show that he has been adding his funny comments to for years. Saying at the end of the contest “ I have to decide whether I want to do this again. Western European participants have to decide whether they want to take part from here on in, because their prospects are so poor.

I don't think that we had the best song, but it was certainly better than many of the other countries and we certainly did not deserve last place. It is a sad but realistic fact that that even if the UK did have the greatest song, it is possibly no longer worth the humiliation as due to modern day politics, we are never going to win, or even come close.

A few years ago, according to his own words, he left singing after the Muttaheda Majlis-e-Amal, a coalition of six religious parties, came into power in the province of Pakhtoonkhwa. This government closed Nashtar Hall, a center of cultural activities of the province, and started targeting singers, musicians and artists.

This affected not only his life and career but disappointed the lovers of Pashto music too because Gulzar Alam had quite good popularity among them. He was insulted by the mullahs in the government; an attack on his office in Dabgari Bazar was enough to terrorize the whole music community and then the attacks on music shops bring a halt to the business.

So Gulzar Alam said goodbye to music but he was still under constant threat from the anti-Pashto elements. Eventually he was forced to shift his home to Quetta, Balochistan, and then he went to Karachi where he worked as taxi driver for a few months.

In the interview, he says that he was happy that the secular nationalist Pashtoon party, Awami National Party, won the Feb. 18 election and formed government in the province. After the election, according to his own words, Chief Minister Amir Haider Khan Hoti, Minister for Education Mian Iftekhar and leaders of the Party invited him back to Peshawar with full honor and advised him to start again his singing career.

Now everyone's favorite Pashto singer is back in the field and the Pakhtoonkhwa government has opened Nashtar Hall for cultural activities. Indeed, it is very good news for the fans of Pashto music and Gulzar Alam.

According to Wikipedia, she has fan base stretching from the tribal belt of Pakistan to southern parts of Afghanistan. She has sung in several languages: Pashto, Urdu, Punjabi and Persian.

With a voice as sweet and pure as honey and a face as innocent as a child of few months, she has impressed a wide range of young music fans which made her the most popular celebrity and "Queen of Pashto music".

When she married in 2004, some people thought that she will quit singing like her predecessors, as in the traditional tribal life husbands don't allow wives to sing and do other showbiz activities. Some great Pashto singers in the past have met this fate.

But Nazia made a historical record as not only she continued singing but drag her husband into singing. Now he is too a singer and both have released many albums. And people have liked their albums together.

Nazia and her husband's albums are available on Mastana and some other Pashto sites that provide music.

The singer couple has a daughter of over one year age named Meena.

'I love my husband more than my daughter because a living and loving husband can give me more children' she said in a recent interview when asked whom she love most, husband or daughter.

It is a shocking fact that Nazia's birthplace, the beautiful Swat valley of the Pashstoonkhwa province, is currently facing the indecent activities of the local pro-Taliban militants. They have strong presence in the area. They say that music is un-Islamic. They have destroyed several music centers and shops.