1. Iqbal Bano was a Pakistani singer who specialized in ghazal.
18 Facts About Iqbal Bano
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Iqbal Bano is popularly known by her honorific title Malika-e-Ghazal in both Pakistan and India.
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Iqbal Bano was known for her semi-classical Urdu ghazal songs and classical thumris, but sang easy-listening numbers in the 1950s films.
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Iqbal Bano was born in 1928 in Delhi, British India.
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Iqbal Bano will become a big name if you begin her training.
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Iqbal Bano spent her childhood years in Rohtak near Delhi.
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Iqbal Bano instructed her in pure classical music and light classical music within the framework of classical forms of thumri and dadra.
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Iqbal Bano was duly initiated Ganda-bandh shagird of her Ustad.
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Iqbal Bano moved to Multan with her husband who promised her that he would never try to stop her from singing, but would rather encourage and promote her.
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Iqbal Bano had become a 'singing star' by the 1950s, singing soundtrack songs for famous Pakistani Urdu films like Payal Mein Geet Hai Cham Cham Ke, Ulfat ki Nai Manzil ko Chala, Chhor Hamen Kis Des Sudharay Sayyan Hamaray and Dono Dillon Peh Hua Ulfat Ka Asar, Taaron Ka Bhi Tu Maalik, Pareshan Raat Sari Hai, and Ambva ki Darrion pe Jhoolana Jhoolae Ja.
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Iqbal Bano was later invited by Radio Pakistan for classical performances on the radio.
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Iqbal Bano's husband died in 1980, after which she moved to Lahore from Multan.
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Iqbal Bano is regarded as an accomplished ghazal singer around the world who took the sub-continental ghazal singing to new heights and has been called the "Queen of Ghazal".
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Iqbal Bano's repertoire include ghazals of numerous poets including the great Mirza Ghalib, Quli Qutub Shah, Baqi Siddiqui, Daagh Dehlvi, Nasir Kazmi and Ahmed Faraz.
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Iqbal Bano was well known for her versatility as a singer and vocalist; she was not only at ease with classical, light-classical, film and popular music but rendered her classical training to folk songs.
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Iqbal Bano had worn sari for decades and appeared in concerts, radio and television programs and was famous for rendering the poetry of Faiz Ahmad Faiz.
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Not long after Zia's regime issued the edict that sari was to be banned from the public sphere, Iqbal Bano donned a black sari and appeared at the Al-Hamra hall in Lahore, Pakistan on 13 February 1986 in front of a large audience.
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Iqbal Bano married a landlord in 1948 and had three children including two sons named Humayun and Afzal, a daughter named Maleeha.