Pakistani Music | MCQs

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Shafqat Amanat Ali was the lead vocalist of the Pakistani band Fuzon.

He is known for blending classical and rock music. 

He gained fame with the band through songs like "Ankhon Ke Saagar" before pursuing a solo career.

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Roshanara Begum is known as Malika-e-Mausiqi, which means "Queen of Music" in Urdu.

She was a renowned classical singer in the Indian subcontinent.

She celebrated for her mastery of Hindustani classical music.

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Bismillah Khan was born on 21 March 1916 into a family of traditional Muslim musicians in Dumraon, in what is now the eastern Indian state of Bihar, as the second son of Paigambar Bux Khan and Mitthan.

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• Famous folk singer Pathanay Khan was born in Basti Tambu Wali, Kot Addu, in the Muzaffargarh district in 1926.
• Pathanay Khan was a Pakistani Saraiki folk singer who mostly sang Kafis or Ghazals, usually drawing on the Sufi poetry of Khwaja Ghulam Farid and Shah Hussain.

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Abida Parveen is a Pakistani Sufi Muslim singer, composer, and musician.

She has been dubbed as the 'Queen of Sufi music'.

Received the President's Pride of Performance award in 1982 and Sitara-e-Imtiaz in 2005 

She was born in Larkana, Sindh, Pakistan in 1954.

She began performing in the 1970s a

And became internationally prominent in the 1990s

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Nazia Hassan was a Pakistani singer-songwriter, lawyer and social activist.

Referred to as the Queen of South Asian pop, she is considered one of the most influential singers in the subcontinent.

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Vital Signs were a Pakistani pop and rock band formed in Rawalpindi in 1986 by two Peshawar University students.