Shamshad Begum, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Shamshad Begum

Indian singer

Date of Birth: 14-Apr-1919

Place of Birth: Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Date of Death: 23-Apr-2013

Profession: singer

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Shamshad Begum (Samsad Begam; 14 April 1919 – 23 April 2013) was an Indian singer who was one of the first playback singers in the Hindi film industry.
She had a distinctive voice and was a versatile artist, singing over 6,000 songs in Hindi and Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil and Punjabi languages and of them 1287 songs were Hindi film songs.
She worked with maestros including Naushad Ali, S.
D.
Burman, C.
Ramchandra and O.
P.
Nayyar.
Her songs from the 1940s to the early 1970s remain popular and continue to be remixed.