Omar Waqar

Omar Waqar

Biography

Omar is a songwriter, poet, multi-instrumentalist (guitar, sitar, vocals, drums, bass, keyboard), visual artist and Berklee College of Music graduate. He is most known for fronting a few different Washington DC based bands, notably; Diacritical and the mystical dance-punk band Sarmust. He produces the experimental electronic music under Evilartform. He has composed film scores for movies that have been featured at Sundance, Festival de Nouve Cinema, Spin, Toronto Star, Time Magazine, Q-TV, and more. As an artist, Omar's work has been covered in a wide variety of media outlets including the BBC, VOA, LA Times, Newsweek, Rollingstone, MTV Iggy and more.