ISLAMABAD: The great legendary playback singer Malika-e-Tarannum Madam Noor Jehan’s 11th death anniversary is being observed today (Friday).
Noor Jehan was the greatest film and music personality in the history of showbiz in Pakistan. She was born on September 21, 1926 at Qasoor, Punjab.
She started her film career at the age of just nine and became super star as baby artist and then a top singer and actress.
After the sub continent partition, she moved from Bombay and started her film career in Pakistan as actress, singer and the first female film director with film Chann We in 1951. Her last film Ghalib was released in 1961.
She ruled the film industry for more than 35 years. She sung appropriately six thousand songs in Urdu, Punjabi and Sindhi films.
The legendary playback singer was an equally proficient ghazal singer. With rigorous training in classical music, Noor Jehan employed the essential features necessary to present the ghazal in an exceptional manner.
Madam Noor Jehan was born in a very poor family on September 21, 1926 at Qasoor, Punjab and died on December 23, 2000 in Karachi.
