Salman was a founding member of the popular South Asian band Junoon. The group has sold over 25 million albums and in 2001 became the first rock band invited to perform at the U.N. General Assembly.

Salman also was appointed U.N. Goodwill Ambassador for HIV/AIDS. He personalized the “I Care, Do You?” U.N. poster campaign in Pakistan by taking the well-known verse of the Koran about reverence for human life and paraphrasing it to say: “Saving one life (from AIDS) is like saving the whole of humanity.”

Born in Pakistan and grew up in New York, he went back to Pakistan where Salman obtained his medical degree. He helped form Pakistan’s first pop band, Vital Signs and the debut album sold a million copies. He decided to give up his stethoscope and pick up his guitar. Is was after leaving Vital Signs in 1990 that he founded Junoon.