Lahore (Web Desk): Pakistan’s renowned singer Zahida Parveen’s 49th death anniversary is being observed today (Tuesday).
The great Kafi singer Zahida Parveen was born in Amritsar, Punjab in 1925.
She was known as The Nightingale and The Queen of Kafi.
After partition, she moved to Pakistan and learned singing from Ashiq Hussain of Patiala Gharana in Lahore. Then she started singing at Radio Pakistan Lahore.
Zahida Parveen died at the age of 50 on this day in 1975, in Lahore.
