Archive for the ‘Playback Singers’ Category
Mehdi Hassan
Nowhere else in the world one can find any example where literature and music are inalienably strung together, save for Urdu adab. It is because in the subcontinent one of the richest genres of Urdu literature, ghazal is not only something to extract reading pleasure from but also to sing and lend one’s ears to. ...
Mala
In the good old days Mala was sometimes compared (erroneously) to Lata, perhaps due to her shrill voice and the duo of Rushdie-Mala was to the Pakistani films what Rafi-Lata was to the Indian counterpart. Mala’s real name was Naseem. She was born in Faisalabad, Punjab. She had been interested in singing and music from ...
Naseem Begum
Naseem Begum was a well known Pakistani playback singer who was born in Amritsar, British India, in 1936. She took her musical lessons from the classical singer Mukhtar Begum – elder sister of ghazal singer Farida Khanum and wife of noted poet and playwright, Agha Hashr Kashmiri. Naseem Begum started her career in late 50s ...
Ahmed Rushdi
The men hovering around that brilliant playback singer, Ahmed Rushdi, who played such important cameos in his career, like Parvez Malik, Waheed Murad, Suhail Rana and Masroor Anwar were all greats in their own capacity. They had all brought about a sort of revolution in our films, which could be called neo-romanticism in our cinema ...
Kauser Parveen
Kauser Parveen was one of the most popular playback singers of the 50s. Third, and best known of the 3 famed Nath sisters (the other two being Asha Posley and Rani Kiran), she was born in Patiala – India, in 1933. She started her singing career in early 50s and came into prominence when she ...
Naheed Niazi
Naheed Niazi was one of the popular playback singers of the late 50s and 60s. She was discovered by Khurshid Anwar, who wasn’t happy with the available choices of playback singers (with the exception of Noor Jehan). Khurshid Anwar wanted Noor Jehan to sing Zehr-e-Ishq’s songs. Noor Jehan refused to sing because she was still ...
Irene Parveen
Amidst the constellation of Lollywood, once entered a girl with a schoolgirl’s voice. She sang merrily and won the day. The senior artistes appreciated her songs, and she was inducted into the starry constellation with all her songs. This smiling, young crooner, who adjusted so easily and naturally to the film fraternity, was Irene Parveen. ...
Shamshad Begum – Profile
____________________ Profile – Interview – Gallery Back to Legends – Shamshad Begum ____________________ The inimitable Shamshad Begum was the reigning queen of film music in its earliest years. From the 1940s to the early 1960s, her unmistakable voice sang such memorable songs as Kaahe koyal shor machaye re (Aag), Pee ke ghar aaj pyari dulhaniya ...
Naheed Akhtar
Naheed Akhtar remained an unavoidable part of the titles of almost all Pakistani films between the mid-70′s to the late 80′s. In so many ways, she was the female counterpart of Ahmed Rushdie, even though coming a generation later. Naheed suddenly found her place as one of the most versatile singers around mid-70′s when it ...
Zubaida Khanum – Profile
____________________ Zubaida Khanum’s Profile | Zubaida Khanum’s Song List ____________________ Zubaida Khanum epitomized the robustness of the rhythm- based music of Lahore, the city that gave us singing stalwarts like Noor Jehan, Suraiya, Shamshad Begum, Zeenat Begum, S.D. Batish, and of course the inimitable Zubaida Khanum herself, whose soft and heavenly vocals sent her fans ...
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Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani (2009) - Soundtrack Review:
The Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani soundtrack is a crowd-pleaser: it's got something for everyone. A...
Parul Ghosh's Song List: ____________________
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Shailendra:
While the constant composition of songs based on the fragile conundrums of love reduced m...
Mukesh – Part 4:
Perhaps the only calculating thing Mukesh ever did was to engineer an elopement to marry his bel...
Shamshad Begum - Madan Mohan Collaboration: ____________________
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