Shamshad Begum

                                        (1941 – 1968) 

                                   Hindi , Urdu, Punjabi

               Shamshad muhammadan (born april 14, 1919) is associate indian singer un agency was one in all the primary playback singers within the hindi movie industry.

              Begum was born in amritsar, punjab. she was a giant fan of k.l. saigal and watched devdas fourteen times. She earned fifteen rupees per song and was awarded 5,000 on the completion of the contract on xenophone, a far-famed music recording company.

              Sometime back, an argument erupted within the media, once many publications gave the false news of her death, before it absolutely was processed that the shamshad moslem world health organization died in 1998 was saira banu's (dilip kumar's wife) granny with an equivalent name. the singer has been living along with her female offspring usha ratra and relative-in-law in urban center, ever since her husband ganpat lal batto died in 1955. recently, she celebrated her 89th birthday at her elder sister's house and currently she stays at - hiranandani gardens, powai, urban center she was given the padma bhushan in 2009.

Career

              Begum created her debut on radio on urban center radio in urban center on dec sixteen, 1947, fascinating the hearts of her listeners with the enthralling depth of her voice. shamshad was a great deal alert to her not therefore lovely face and he or she ne'er display for any footage and not many of us saw her footage anyplace. till the top of the nineteen seventies, no one knew her face the least bit, although everyone might recognise her melodious voice because it was utilized by the good maestros like naushad ali and o. p. nayyar. even today, her songs from the fifties, nineteen sixties and early nineteen seventies square measure widespread and still be remixed by music administrators. 

             Begum herbaceous plant for the all india radio (air) through her musical organisation 'the checkered lily theatrical company of performing arts arts', started in old delhi. the then air urban center helped her coming into the globe of flicks as they regularly broadcast her songs, that iatrogenic music administrators to use her voice for his or her films. shamshad additionally recorded naats and pious music for one or two of record player recording firms.

              Her crystal-clear voice caught the eye of sarangi master ustad hussain bakshwale saheb, un agency took her as his adherent. lahore-based musician ghulam haider used her voice skilfully in a number of his earlier films like khazanchi (1941) and khandaan (1942). once he affected to mumbai in 1944, shamshad went with him as a member of his team, giving up her family and staying along with her chacha (paternal uncle). she is attributable with singing one among the primary westernised songs, meri jaan...sunday ke sunday by c. ramchandra. o.p. nayyar describes her voice as that of a "temple bell" for its clarity of tone. muslim became a national rage between the nineteen forties and therefore the late nineteen fifties, having a voice completely different from her peers like lata mangeshkar, asha bhonsle, geeta dutt and amirbai karnataki. in 2009, she was bestowed with the distinguished o p nayyar award for her contribution to hindi film music.

Songs

1956 : leke pehla pehla pyar from cid 

Milte hi aankhen dil hua from babul

1965 : Chali chali kaisi yeh hawa yeh from bluffmaster

Kabhi aar kabhi paar zara dere chalo from aar paar

O gadiwale - mother india

1965 : Kahin pe nigahen kahin pe nishana from cid

1965 : Boojh mera kya naam re

Mere piya gaye rangoon from patanga

Ek tera sahara from shama

1957 : Holi aayee re kanhaai from mother india

Naina bhar aye neer from humayun

Chod babul ka ghar from babul 

1968 : Kajra mohabbatwala ankhiyon mein aisa dala from kismat

Meri neendon main tum, meri khwabon mein tum from naya andaz teri mehfil Mein qismat from mughal-e-azam

Saiyan dil mein aana re from bahar