Ramachandra’s films was “the telephone song,” or “Mere piya gaye Rangoon,” from the 1949 film “Patanga,” which My favorite of the Begum’s songs from director C. Here are five of her top songs with five different music directors, which laid a strong foundation for Hindi film music: Their own favorites, songs that could resonate in lonely hearts and joyous souls alike. While she may be best known for singing the first “Western-sounding” song in Hindi cinema, “Meri jaan meri jaan … Sunday ke Sunday,” fans had A “playback singer,” she was the woman behind the high, melodic voice to which scores of actresses lip-synced and danced from the 1930s till the 1970s. Her voice captivated an entire generation of Bollywood music lovers, and she worked for decades with the top music directors of Bollywood, including Naushad Ali, Anil Biswas and C. She was 94.īorn into a traditional Punjabi family on April 14, 1919, in Amritsar, the Begum, who died Tuesday, started singing folk songs during religious functions and family weddings at age 10 and made her debut on Peshawar Shamshad Begum, a legendary Bollywood and Hindi film singer, has died in Mumbai after a prolonged illness, her family said Wednesday. Shamshad Begum, right, being presented with the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian honor, by then president Pratibha Patel in New Delhi on March 31, 2009.
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