Abida Parveen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Pakistani singer
Date of Birth: 20-Feb-1954
Place of Birth: Larkana, Sindh, Pakistan
Profession: singer
Nationality: Pakistan
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
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About Abida Parveen
- Abida Parveen (Urdu: ????? ??????; born 20 February 1954), is a Pakistani Sufi Muslim singer, composer and musician.
- She is also a painter and entrepreneur.
- Abida Praveen is one of the highest paid singers in Pakistan.
- Her singing and music has earned her many accolades, and she has been dubbed as the 'Queen of Sufi music'. Born and raised in Larkana into a Sindhi Sufi family, she was trained by her father Ustad Ghulam Haider (not to be confused with composer Master Ghulam Haider) who was a famous Singer and Music teacher.
- She plays Pump organ, Keyboard and Sitar.
- Parveen started performing in the early 1970s and came into global prominence in the 1990s.
- Since 1993, Parveen has toured globally, performing her first international concert at Buena Park, California.
- She had performed in Churches also several times.
- Parveen also features in Pakistan's popular musical show Coke Studio and was a judge on the pan-South Asia contest show Sur Kshetra alongside Runa Laila and Asha Bhosle hosted by Ayesha Takia.
- She had appeared in various Indian and Pakistani Music reality shows including Pakistan Idol, Chhote Ustaad and STAR Voice of India.
- Being the Sufi sensation she is among The 500 Most Influential Muslims of the world.
- With the power to induce hysteria in her audience Parveen is a "Global Mystic Sufi Ambassador".
- Since last few years, she sings a song for Pepsi ad in the month of Ramadan and also collaborated with Atif Aslam once in it. Parveen is referred as one of the world's greatest mystic singers.
- She sings mainly ghazals, Thumri, Khyal, Qawwali, Raga (raag), Sufi rock, Classical, Semi-classical music and her forte, Kafis, a solo genre accompanied by percussion and harmonium, using a repertoire of songs by Sufi poets.
- Parveen sings in Urdu, Sindhi, Saraiki, Punjabi, Arabic and Persian.
- She had also sung a famous song in Nepali language called "Ukali Orali Haruma" by Nepali singer Tara Devi in a concert in Kathmandu, Nepal which was attended by Govinda.
- In 2017, she was designated a 'Peace Ambassador' by SAARC. Parveen is best known for her songs in bloomy loud voice Yaar ko Humne from the album Raqs-e-Bismil and Tere Ishq Nachaya which is a rendition of Bulleh Shah's poetry.
- Pakistan's second highest civilian award the Hilal-e-Imtiaz has been bestowed upon Abida Parveen by the President of Pakistan for 2012.
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