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Abida Parveen (Template:Langx; Template:Langx; born 20 February 1954)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="passion">Template:Cite news</ref> is a Pakistani singer, composer, musician of Sufi music, painter and an entrepreneur. Parveen is one of the highest-paid singers in Pakistan.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Her singing and music have earned her many accolades, and she has been dubbed the Queen of Sufi music.

Born and raised in Larkana into a Sindhi Sufi family, she was trained by her father, Ustad Ghulam Haider, who was a famous singer and music teacher. She plays the 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.<ref name="EPSTEIN">Template:Cite news</ref> She has also performed in Churches, several times. Parveen features in Pakistan's popular musical show Coke Studio and was a judge on the pan-South Asia contest show Sur Kshetra<ref name=Dawn3>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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. In the last few years, she has sung in a Pepsi commercial, collaborating with Atif Aslam for this.

Parveen is regularly referred to as one of the world's greatest mystic singers.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> She sings mainly ghazals, thumri, khyal, qawwali, raga (raag), Sufi rock, classical and semi-classical music, and her speciality, kafi, a solo genre accompanied by percussion and harmonium, using a repertoire of songs by Sufi poets.<ref name="te">Template:Cite news</ref> Parveen sings in Urdu, Sindhi, Punjabi, Arabic, and Persian.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Abida Parveen World music: the basics, by Richard Nidel. Routledge, 2005. Template:ISBN. p.247.</ref> Parveen notably sang a famous song in Nepali language called "Ukali Orali Haruma", originally by Nepali singer Tara Devi, in a concert in Kathmandu, Nepal, and in 2017, she was designated a 'Peace Ambassador' by SAARC.

Parveen is best known for singing in an impassioned, loud voice, especially on the songs Yaar ko Humne from the album Raqs-e-Bismil and Tere Ishq Nachaya, which is a rendition of Bulleh Shah's poetry.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> She was bestowed Pakistan's second highest civilian award, Hilal-e-Imtiaz, in 2012<ref name=Tribune>Template:Cite news</ref> and the highest civilian award, Nishan-e-Imtiaz, in March 2021, by the President of Pakistan.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Early lifeEdit

Parveen was born in Ali Goharabad, Larkana, Sindh, Pakistan. She received her musical training initially from her father, Ustad Ghulam Haider, whom she refers to as Baba Sain and Gawwaya. He had his own musical school, where Parveen got her devotional inspiration . She and her father would often perform at shrines of Sufi saints. Parveen's talent compelled her father to choose her as his musical heir over his two sons. Growing up, she attended her father's music school, where her foundation in music was laid.<ref>Begum Abida Parveen sings dil se TNN, The Times of India, 17 June 2003.</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Later, Ustad Salamat Ali Khan of the Sham Chaurasia gharana also taught and nurtured her. Parveen always remembers that she was never forced into this occupation, and she sang her first complete kalam when she was only 3 years old.

CareerEdit

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Parveen at her concert in Oslo, 2007

Parveen had already begun performing at Dargahs and Urs in the early 1970s, but it was in 1973, on Radio Pakistan, that she achieved her first real breakthrough with the Sindhi song Tuhinje zulfan jay band kamand widha. In 1977, she was introduced as an official singer on Radio Pakistan. Since then, Parveen has risen to prominence and is now considered one of the finest vocal artists in Pakistan. She has imbued Sufi music with a new identity, marking the beginning of this journey at Sultana Siddiqui's Awaz-o-Andaz in 1980.

Parveen travels internationally, often performing at sold-out venues.<ref name="travel-culture.com">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="theguardian.com">Template:Cite news</ref> Her 1988 performance in Chicago was recorded by the Hazrat Amir Khusrau Society of Art and Culture, which issued an LP of her songs. Her 1989 performance in London's Wembley Conference Centre was broadcast on the BBC. Parveen cites her motivation for international travel as being to spread Sufism, peace, and the divine message. In doing so, she also promotes Pakistani culture.

In the 1990s, Parveen licensed her spiritual ghazals to Bollywood, since her "spiritual brother", Khan, recorded songs for Bollywood. Recently, Abida also performed at the grand finale of the Sindh Festival, arranged by Bilawal Bhutto Zardari in Thatta.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

  • Abida made a special appearance in the super hit Lollywood movie Zindagi, starring Sultan Rahi, Arif Lohar and Attaullah Khan Esakhelvi in the lead cast, for which she performed her famous rendition of Sufi Sachal Sarmast's "Mahi Yar Di Gharoli Bhar Di".
  • In 2007, Parveen collaborated with Shehzad Roy on a song entitled Zindagi, dedicated to children's social problems.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • In the same year, she performed at the annual Oslo Mela in Norway.
  • In 2010, Parveen performed at London's prestigious Royal Albert Hall, along with Bollywood playback singer Sonu Nigam.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • In 2010, Parveen performed at the Asia Society's Sufi Music Festival in New York City.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • In 2010, she performed in Union Square, Manhattan, at the first Sufi Music Festival in New York City.
  • Parveen performs annually at the Indian filmmaker Muzaffar Ali's Jahan-e-Khusrau event, where she is reputed to be the top performer.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • In 2010, she judged the Indo-Pak venture Sur Kshetra TV Show.
  • She performed at the 2013 Manchester International Festival in Bridgewater Hall.
  • Abida also collaborated in Manchester in 2013 with composer John Tavener on the remarkable composition 'Mahamatar' for a Werner Herzog film about pilgrimage.
  • She had performed at the Holland Festival 2014 in Stopera, Amsterdam.
  • Praveen was the grand performer of the Dhaka International Folk Fest, 2015 in Bangladesh, where she also received an award.
  • In the Sindh Literature Festival, 2016, she performed the grand show and cut the ribbon on its inauguration alongside SLF chairperson.
  • In the same year, she performed at the 2nd International Sufi Festival at Karachi.
  • In 2016, she collaborated with Indian music director duo Salim–Sulaiman and an orchestra in Toronto (Canada) for a special song called "Noor e Illahi", released on Eid.
  • In 2017, on New Year's Eve Abida released 'Mulk e Khuda, a patriotic song featuring the natural sites and landscapes of Pakistan.
  • She performed in the finale of the Alchemy Festival 2017 at the Southbank Centre in London.
  • In the same year, a music video of the romantic gazal "Ahat Si" was released by Abida feat. Saima Ajram.
  • Her performance includes the annual Faiz International Festival on the death anniversary of Faiz Ahmad Faiz.

Coke Studio appearancesEdit

Parveen began performing on the internationally acclaimed Pakistani show Coke Studio in 2010. She sang three songs: "Ramooz-e-Ishq", "Nigah-e-Darwaishaan", and "Soz-e-Ishq" in episodes 1 (reason), 3 (conception), and 5 (realisation), respectively of season 3. Parveen said she admired the programme because it offered a Dargahi environment. She commented:<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

"This project, which Rohail Hyatt has started, is indeed great, and I would like to be a part of it for a long time. The music that comes out of this project reaches both the heart and the soul, and it always complements the lyrics without overriding the true message of the kalams. This platform builds on those messages of our Sufi elders."

She was invited back to season 7 in 2014. She sang "Mein Sufi Hoon" with Rais Khan and performed "dost" as a solo. She also performed "Chaap Tilak" (a popular Sufi poem by Sufi poet Amir Khusro) in a duet with Rahat Fateh Ali Khan.

Abida was also part of season 9. Her first song, along with other artists in the season, "Ae Rah Haq K Shaheedo", was dedicated to the war martyrs.<ref name=Dawn3/> After that, she sang a duet with Ali Sethi titled "Aaqa", then sang a solo titled "Maula-i-Kull".

She also performed in season 14, singing "Tu Jhoom" with Naseebo Lal.

QuotesEdit

  • "Pakistan seems disconnected from the outside. But it is built and runs on the prayers of our Sufi kings, our pirs. Poor people, rich people—we are all God's servants … I'm lucky. My audience is my God."<ref name="Iqbal">Template:Cite news</ref>
  • "The songs purify the soul of a human being; the human is so involved that he has left God. The songs bring us near to God, near the Almighty, so that the human soul should be purified and satisfied."<ref name="EPSTEIN"/>

Personal lifeEdit

EducationEdit

Abida got her master's degree from Sindh and also learned Urdu, Sindhi, and Persian specifically.

Marriage and familyEdit

In 1975, Abida married Ghulam Hussain Sheikh, senior producer at Radio Pakistan, who had retired from his job in the 1980s to manage and mentor Parveen's career. After he died of a heart attack on an international flight in the early 2000s, their daughter Maryam took up that role. There is a sense that Parveen's career has taken a more commercial route as a result of it.<ref name="theguardian.com"/> The couple has two daughters, Pereha Ikram and Maryam Hussain, and a son, Sarang Latif, who is a music director. All three children act as her advisors.<ref name="travel-culture.com"/> Her family understands her need for riyaz (daily vocal music practice) and the required space to do that practice.<ref name="fuchsia.com.sg">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Abida Parveen GalleryEdit

Parveen is also interested in the arts. She owns the Abida Parveen Gallery, which features jewellery, paintings, her music CDs, an awards section, and garments and accessories. It is run by her daughters.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She also has her own music recording studio there.

Clothing styleEdit

Parveen has a distinctive clothing style that she has created herself for ease and comfort. She wears long, simple frocks buttoned up to the top with loose arms with or without cuffs and covered with a coat. She is always accompanied by an Ajrak, a Sindhi shawl, which she claims comes from the {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (mausoleum) of Sufi saint Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, and her wardrobe is full of it.

OtherEdit

Parveen has taken Bayyat and became a disciple of Najeeb Sultan, her spiritual master. Parveen suffered a heart attack during a performance in Lahore on 28 November 2010.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Angiography and angioplasty were performed on her. She regained her health soon after.

Awards and recognitionsEdit

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Parveen with the Pushto singer Fazal Malik Akif in Manchester, 1994.

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FilmographyEdit

Despite Parveen's renown, she has never sung for the cinema industry; her existing work has been repurposed and used in films, however, at the insistence of proponents such as Farooq Mengal. Parveen revealed in interviews that she has received offers from Bollywood filmmakers such as Subhash Ghai and Yash Chopra. Shah Rukh Khan requested that she sing in Ra.One, as did music director A. R. Rahman.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Parveen declines these offers on account of her Sufi faith and the commitments that it requires.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

TelevisionEdit

Year Show Role Notes
1980 Awaz-o-Andaz Performer aired on PTV
2009 Nara-e-Mastana Performer Concert sponsored and aired by Hum
2010 Chotte Ustad Guest Judge with Ghulam Ali Eid Celebration
2012 Sur Kshetra TV Show Judge Representing Pakistan in India
2012 Shehr-e-Zaat OST Singer for Yaar ko Humne Pre-recorded from album Raqs-e-Bismil
2012 Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa Special appearance with Runa Laila To promote Sur Kshetra TV Show
2012 1st Hum Awards Performer Sang Naraye Mastana
2014 Pakistan Idol TV Show Guest Judge Grand Finale
2014 Zee Channel TV Singer New Channel
2014 Sama-e-Ishq Performer Concert aired on Hum TV

FilmsEdit

Year Film Song Notes
2005 Viruddh Mann Lago Yaar
Bhala Hua Meri
Saahib Mera Ek 		From her album "Kabir by Abida"
2008 Zill-e-Shah Sajjan de Haath Pre-recorded
2013 Ishq Khuda Title Track Pre-recorded
Winner-1st ARY Film Awards for Best Female Playback Singer
2015 Jaanisaar Sufiye Ba Safa Manam (female) Indian film by Muzaffar Ali
2015 Bin Roye Maula Maula with Zeb Bangash
Winner-15th Lux Style Awards for Best Female Playback Singer
2017 Rangreza Phool Khil Jayein with Asrar (musician)

DiscographyEdit

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