Kula Shaker
On 2 July 2008 the band announced they were back in the studio working on their fourth studio album with working title "Pilgrims Progress". However soon after the band became locked in a legal dispute with their label which resulted in most of the work for the next album being frozen. As of May 2009, work on the new album had recommenced.
Fadl Shaker
Fadl Shaker married Nadia, a Palestinian, in 1989 when he was just 20. He had fallen in love with her after she attended one of his concerts. They have three children, Alhan (born in 1990), Muhammad (born in 1994) and Rana (born in 2002). The couple divorced after their third child, and she remarried another man. According to friends, when his wife Nadia left him, he would sob on stage as he sang, thinking of her.