– She got married right after she recorded her song in film Rangela. She has a son and two daughters and several grandchildren. Tassawar Khanum was married to Rais Ghulam Ali Khan Muree in 1973 until his death in 1992. She was popular in 1970s and 1980s when she sang film songs. After this she began to take music lessons with sarangi nawaz Ustad Butta Ali Khan. It was Pervaiz Mehdi who asked her father to ensure that Tassawar should receive an education in music after he overheard her copying while he practiced. She and her father would often go Pervaiz Mehdi’s house while he was practicing. During her childhood she was a neighbor of singer Pervaiz Mehdi who was a good friend of her father. Her most popular songs are perhaps Tu Meri Zindagi Hai and Agar Tum Mil Jao. Tassawar Khanum (born 1950) is a Pakistani Ghazal singer. She is mostly known for singing in Urdu and Punjabi in Pakistani films and television during the 1970s and 1980s. One of her daughters is a specialist in endocrinology currently working in Services Hospital, Lahore and lives with her husband and children and the other is a student.Ī latest album of Kahnum with Hilal-e-Imtiaz Abida Parveenand Sitara-e-ImtiazReshma launched by Times. 30 Hits - 3 Great Artists - Abida Parveen - Farida Khanum - Reshma. One of her daughters lives with her husband and children in New York, other lives in Canada. Malika-e-Ghazal, Farida Khanum enthralls with these picks. She lives with her second oldest daughter, and her only son, his wife and children. The ghazal she is most associated with is Aaj Jaane Ki Zidd Naa Karo.įarida Khanum lives in Lahore, Pakistan. Her sister Mukhtar Begum would take her, a seven-year-old Farida, to Khan’s place for riyaaz. Her family migrated to Pakistanafter partition of India in 1947.įarida Khanum gave her first public concert in 1950 and then joined Radio Pakistan where she courted fame and fortune. She became a star when Pakistan’s president Ayub Khan invited her to a public recital in the ’60s.
She started learning Khayal from her sister Mukhtar Begum at age seven and later learnt classical music from Ustad Ashiq Ali Khan. Khanum felt a deep connection to Amristar and Calcutta because of her childhood, and would often perform on the other side of the border, especially. She was born in 1935 in Calcutta and raised in Amritsar. Farida Khanum with her 'Best Ghazal Singer' Award in 1974 Meanwhile, Pakistani radio signals used to reach all the way to India, and ghazal enthusiasts were immediately enraptured by her singing. The Times of India has called her “Malika-e-Ghazal” (Queen of Ghazal) Farida Khanum (born 1935) is a Pakistani Ghazal singer from Punjab.