Rahat Fateh Ali Khan (born 1974) (Urdu: راحت فاتح علی خان) is a Pakistani singer, primarily of Qawwali, a devotional music of the Muslim Sufis. He is the nephew of Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. In addition to Qawwali, he also performs ghazals and other light music. He is popular […]
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Nazia Hassan (Urdu: نازیہ حسن) (April 3, 1965 – August 13, 2000[1]) was an iconic Pakistani pop singer. Her song “Aap Jaisa Koi” from the Indian film Qurbani (1980) made her a legend and pop icon in Pakistan and all of South Asia in the 1980s, where she is admired […]
Alamgir (Urdu: عالمگیر; Bengali:) is a Pakistani pop singer of the 1970s, who is in fact one of the pioneers of the Urdu pop music in Pakistan.[citation needed] His style of singing is inspired by the playback singer Ahmed Rushdi. Life and careerAlamgir was born in 1955, in East Pakistan […]
Farida Khanum (born 1935) is a Pakistani Ghazal singer from Punjab. The Times of India has called her “Malika-e-Ghazal” (Queen of Ghazal). In 2005, she was awarded the Hilal-e-Imtiaz, Pakistan’s second highest civilian honour by President Pervez Musharraf.She started learning Khayal from her sister Mukhtar Begum at age seven and […]
Nayyara Noor (Urdu: نیرہ نور ) is a Pakistani playback singer who is also considered one of the South Asia’s foremost exponents in the Ghazal genre Nayyara Noor was born in 1950 in Assam. Her family was a merchant class hailing from Amritsar who had settled in Guwahati in Assam […]
Abida Parveen (born 1954) (Sindhi: عابده پروين, Urdu: عابده پروین), is a Pakistani singer of Sindhi descent and one of the foremost exponents of Sufi music (Sufiana kalaam). She sings mainly ghazals, Urdu love songs, and her forte, Kafis, a solo genre accompanied by percussion and harmonium, using a […]
Tina Sani is a Pakistani female singer renowned for her classical and semi-classical Urdu Ghazals.Early lifeTina Sani was born in Dhaka, at the time East Pakistan. She studied in Dhaka before moving to Karachi, where she earned a diploma in design. She was trained in classical music by Ustad Nizamuddin […]
Iqbal Bano (Urdu: اقبال بانو), PP (1935, Delhi – 21 April 2009, Lahore) was a highly acclaimed female Ghazal singer from Pakistan. She was best known for her semi-classical Urdu ghazal songs and classical thumris, but also sang easy-listening numbers in 1950s films. Iqbal Bano was born in Delhi, British […]
Ustad Amanat Ali Khan (Urdu: استاد امانت علی خان; born 1932–1974) was a Pakistani classical/ghazal singer, from the Patiala gharana. He was honoured with the ‘Pride of Performance’ award by the government of Pakistan. He stands with great singing icons like Mehdi Hassan and Ahmed Rushdi. Amanat Ali Khan was […]
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (Punjabi: نصرت فتح علی خان (Shahmukhī)) (October 13, 1948 – August 16, 1997), a world-renowned Pakistani musician, was primarily a singer of Qawwali, the devotional music of the Sufis (a mystical tradition within Islam). Considered one of the greatest singers ever recorded, he possessed a six-octave […]