Zahida Parveen (singer)

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Zahida Parveen (singer) - Wikipedia

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Zahida Parveen
Born	Zahida Parveen Begum 1925 Amritsar, Punjab, British India
Died	15 May 1975(1975-05-15) (aged 49–50) Lahore, Pakistan
Other names	The Nigtingale^[1] The Queen of Kafi^[2]
Education	Patiala Gharana School
Occupations	Singer Playback singer
Years active	1940 – 1975
Children	Shahida Parveen (daughter)
Relatives	Peeran Ditti (sister)
Awards	Gold Medal award from All Pakistan Music Conference in 1964

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 was composed by G.A. Chishti.^[1]

At Radio Pakistan, she performed the songs "Kya Haal Sunawan Dil Da" and "Maindi Ajj Kal Akh Phurkaandi Aei", a composition of Khwaja Ghulam Farid with kafi style the songs were recorded for His Masters Voice (HMV) on gramophone and became popular hits.^[7] Then she recorded many more Kafis in Urdu, Saraiki, Hindi, Punjabi and Sindhi languages for HMV, radio and stage.^[1]

In the 1940s, she began to sing songs for films in Kheyal style and in classical vocalization and she did playback singing by singing light classical music in different forms like in geets and ghazals.^[1] In 1957, she along with Ustad Fateh Ali Khan recorded a song Nain Se Nain Milae Rakhoni Ko for film Waadah (1957 film), the song was composed by Rashid Attre.^[1]

In 1958, she worked in film Begunah and sanged a classical song Kaisi Raat Rageeli Aai in duet with Naseem Begum. The same year she was hired again by music composer Rashid Attre for film Jan-e-Bahar and was paired with Naseem Begum. The duo sang the song Ab Tou Ji Bhar Ke Khanjar Chalaenge Hum in raag darbari style.^[1]

In 1964, she was honoured by All Pakistan Music Conference with a Gold Medal Award for her contribution to the music industry.^[3]

Personal life

Zahida was married and had a daughter named Shahida Parveen.^[3] She also wanted her daughter to be a singer. So she trained her daughter in a similar style and Shahida became a student of Ustad Akhtar Hussain Khan at the insistence of her mother.^[1]^[8]

Death

Zahida Parveen died at the age of 50 on 15 May 1975, in Lahore, Pakistan.^[1]^[5] She was laid to rest in Miani Sahib Graveyard.^[9]

Filmography

Year	Film	Language
1949	Mundri	Punjabi^[1]
1950	Anokhi Dastan	Urdu
1951	Billo	Punjabi^[1]
1953	Barkha	Urdu
1953	Shehri Babu	Punjabi^[1]
1955	Pattan	Punjabi^[10]
1956	Morni	Punjabi
1956	Dulla Bhatti	Punjabi^[1]
1957	Waadah	Urdu^[1]
1957	Yakke Wali	Punjabi^[1]
1958	Begunah	Urdu^[1]
1958	Jan-e-Bahar	Urdu^[1]
1958	Darbar	Urdu
1959	Bacha Jamoora	Punjabi^[1]
1964	Baap Ka Baap	Urdu
1965	Dil Ke Tukre	Urdu^[1]

Awards and recognition

Year	Award	Category	Result	Title	Ref.
1964	All Pakistan Music Conference	Gold Medal Award	Won	Radio & Music	^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u Amjad Parvez (22 June 2017). "Zahida Parveen - The Nightingale". Daily Times newspaper. Archived from the original on 15 April 2023. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
^ "گلوکارہ زاہدہ پروین کی یاد میں خصوصی فیچر آ ج نشر کیاجائے گا". Daily Pakistan newspaper. 7 June 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Sheikh, M. A. (2012). Who's Who: Music in Pakistan (see page 262 for Zahida Parveen). Xlibris. p. 262. ISBN 978-1-4691-9157-7.
^ Contemporary Arts in Pakistan - Volume 3, Issue 3. Pakistan Publications. p. 29.
^ ^a ^b "Tribute to Zahida Parveen on her death anniversary". Radio Pakistan website. 7 May 2022. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
^ Lahore: A Musical Companion. M. Saeed Malik. p. 64.
^ "زاہدہ پروین جنھیں اسٹوڈیو میں‌ بیڑی پینے کی اجازت تھی". ARY News. 14 January 2021.
^ "Noted singer Shahida Parveen passes away". Dawn News. 12 February 2023.
^ "یومِ‌ وفات: پاکستان کی مشہور مغنیہ زاہدہ پروین کا تذکرہ". ARY News. 7 May 2021.
^ "Mussarat Nazir: the iconic heroine — Part I". Daily Times. 19 April 2022.

External links

Zahida Parveen at IMDb

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