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The late Zahida Parveen was a master of kafi singing.
Zahida Parveen, a humane, considerate, caring, humble and affectionate artist of the Northern Pakistan, especially known for singing devotional....
Zahida Parveen (singer)
Pakistani singer
Zahida Parveen (1925 – 15 May 1975) was a Pakistani classical singer and a film playback singer.[3][4]
She was known as The Nightingale and The Queen of Kafi.[3][1]
Early life
Zahida Parveen was born in 1925 at Amritsar, Punjab during British India.[5][6] Her parents died when she was very young so she was raised by one of her sisters, Peeran Ditti.[1]
She joined Patiala gharana school of classical music to learn singing from sarangi player Baba Taj from Kapurthala.
Then she studied with Hussain Bakhsh Khan, a sarangi player from Amritsar.[1]
Career
After partition, she moved to Pakistan and learned singing from Ashiq Hussain of Patiala Gharana in Lahore.
Then she started singing at Radio Pakistan, Lahore. In 1949, she worked as a film playback singer and recorded a qawwali with Iqbal Bano and Munawar Sultana in the film Mundri. The qawwali w