Pakistani Film Singers - Ahmed Rushdi, Nazia and Zoheb, Sajjad Ali, Najam Sheraz, Noor Jehan, Atif Aslam, Nazia Hassan (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Ahmed Rushdi, Nazia and Zoheb, Sajjad Ali, Najam Sheraz, Noor Jehan, Atif Aslam, Nazia Hassan, Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Zohaib Hassan, Khalid Abbas Dar, Ali Haider, Masood Rana, Salma Agha, Jawad Ahmad, Alamgir, Saeed Khan Rangeela, Khyal Muhammad, Moin Akhter, Nayyara Noor, Mala, Humera Arshad, A. Nayyar, Mehnaz, Waris Baig, Akmal Khan. Excerpt: Ahmed Rushdi, SI, PP (Urdu: April 24, 1934 - April 11, 1983) was a versatile Pakistani playback singer who worked in film music and was "an important contributor to the Golden Age of Pakistani film music." Rushdi is acclaimed as one of the greatest singers ever lived in south asia and was a natural baritone, yet could sing high tenor notes with ease. Born in Hyderabad Deccan, he migrated to Pakistan and became a leading singer in the Pakistan film industry. He is considered to be one of the most versatile vocalists of the subcontinent and was capable of singing variety of songs. He is also considered to be the first regular pop singer of south asia and credited as having sung the "first-ever South asian" pop song, "Ko-Ko-Ko-reena." In 1954, he recorded the official National anthem of Pakistan with several other singers. Rushdi has recorded the highest number of film songs in the history of Pakistani cinema in Urdu, English, Punjabi, Bengali, Sindhi and Gujarati languages. He suffered from poor health during the latter part of his life and died of a heart attack at the age of 48, after recording approximately five thousand film songs for 583 released films. Besides popular music, Rushdi also helped popularize the ghazals of Naseer Turabi. In 2003, 20 years after his death, Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf awarded him the Sitara-e-Imtiaz, the "star of excellence," an honour given for distinguished merit in the fields of literature, arts, sports, medicine, or science...