Legendary singer Shamshad Begum passes away ().She is survived by her daughter Usha and son-in-law. Shamshad Begum was married to Ganpat Lal Batto who died in 1955. Watch videos of Shamshad Begum, browse photos of Shamshad Begum.
The same year, she also received the O P Nayyar award for her contribution to the world of film music. Get movies, songs, photos, biography, filmography and latest news for Shamshad Begum. In 2009, Shamshad Begum received the Padma Bhushan, India’s third-highest civilian honour. Her hit parade, many of which have been remixed, include: Leke pehla pehla pyar and Kahin pe nigahen kahin pe nishana from C.I.D, Kabhi aar kabhi paar from Aar Paar, Mere piya gaye Rangoon from Patanga, Saiyyan dil mein aana re from Bahar and Kajra mohabbatwala from Kismat, in which she sang not for the heroine, played by Babita, but for the hero, played by Biswajeet, in drag. She sang some of Hindi cinema‘s best-loved numbers between the 1940s and 1950s. Shamshad Begum’s unique voice and style of singing set her apart from contemporaries such as Geeta Bai, Amirbai Karnataki, Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle. Ghulam Haider soon moved from Lahore to Mumbai, taking Shamshad Begum with him as part of his team. Shamshad Begum’s earliest film songs were in Ghulam Haider’s Khazanchi(1941) and Khandaan (1942). Her very first mentors were sarangi maestro Ustad Hussain Bakshwale Saheb and composer Ghulam Haider. Her songs were frequently broadcast on AIR Lahore, bringing her voice to the notice of music directors. She then sang for All India Radio as part of Delhi’s Crown Imperial Theatrical Company of Performing Arts. Shamshad Begum made her singing debut on Peshawar Radio in 1947. In fact, so faithfully did she keep her promise to her father that the public at large did not know what she looked like till well into the 1970s. She promised her father that she would never appear before the camera, and so forged a long and successful camera in the recording studio.
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A movie buff, she was a K L Saigal fan and reportedly watched Devdas 14 times. She had celebrated her 94th birthday just days before.Shamshad Begum was born on Apin Amritsar. She passed away at 94, on April 19, 2013, fifteen years after the fake news of her death.New Delhi: Shamshad Begum, a pioneer of Bollywood’s music fraternity and the voice behind some of it’s most memorable hits, died in Mumbai after a long illness. When her citation was read out, there was a thunderous applause, and Shamshad became emotional telling her admirers after the ceremony, "Mujhe duaon mein yaad rakhiye main aap logon ke dil mein rehna chahti hoon (Remember me in your prayers I want to reside in your hearts). When she came to Delhi to receive the Padma Bhushan at the Rashtrapati Bhawan, she went unnoticed sitting in a wheel chair.
It is unbelievable that she didn't have a single record of her own songs and always maintained a low profile. That made her the least photographed singer. Shamshad was never seen at film functions or award ceremonies. Her talent was best showcased in this song, Ye duniya roop ki chor, that she sang in Bangla, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil and Punjabi. She had more than 1600 songs to her credit, as she was multilingual, singing in Punjabi, Pashto, Urdu, Rajasthani, Bhojpuri and Tamil. Shamshad was never ambitious like other playback singers, for her music was 'ibaadat' (devotion). Very soon, offers were pouring in to sing on All India Radio Lahore and Peshwar. Shamshad was barely 12 and received a royal sum of Rs 12.50 per song. The Company liked the song immensely and recorded 200 songs of this legendary singer in a year's time. He recorded a Punjabi song, Haath joda pakhiya da, in Shamshad's voice. He was working for Jenaphone Recording Company as its chief composer. Once he heard her and saw huge potential in the talented singer. Incidentally, Master Ghulam Haider was well known to Shamshad's family. She was also leading the morning prayers in her school. Baby Shamshad would sit in front of the horn of the gramophone, listen to the songs and start crooning. But there was a gramophone at home, a marker of status symbol in those days. Born on April 23, 1919, in Lahore, Shamshad's family was least inclined towards music. A prime playback singer of the 1940s, Shamshad Begum was senior to both Noor Jehan and Lata Mangeshkar, and got paid one thousand rupees per song, while Lata's fee was in two figures.