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Indian playback singer

Shamshad Begum (Urdu: شمشادبیگمچ, IAST: Śamśād Bēgam; 14 April – 23 April )^[3][4][5] was an Indian singer who was one of the first playback singers in the Hindi film industry.

Notable for her distinctive voice and range, she sang over 6, songs in Hindustani, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, and Punjabi languages, among which were Hindi film songs.^{[citation needed]} She worked with renowned composers of the time, such as Naushad Ali and O. P. Nayyar, for whom she was one of their favorites.

Her songs from the s to the early s remain popular and continue to be remixed.^[6]

Personal life

Shamshad Begum was born in Lahore, British India (present-day Pakistan) on 14 April ^[7] the day after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place in nearby Amritsar. She was one of eight children, five sons and three daughters, born to a conservative Punjabi Muslim family of limited means.

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