And she is perhaps the only female singers to have provided playback for leading men – she sang for Shammi Kapoor ( Bluffmaster) and Biswajit ( Kismat)!įor a singer without any formal musical training, she had an amazing vocal range and command over her voice. She recorded her first film-song for music director Ghulam Haider in the Punjabi film Yamla Jatt (1940), and her career as a popular playback singer was launched! She went on to give us hundreds of popular songs in her lovely earthy voice with its distinctive nasal twang. From there to singing for movies was but a short step. She started her career singing for radio Lahore in 1937. Shamshad Begum The name conjures up images of golden classics, old-fashioned fun songs, and a nasal voice that may be out of fashion now, but never seems dated.
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