Before Lady Gaga was every fabulous person's ring tone...
Before Madonna was blasted at every fabulous dance club...
Before Barbra Streisand serenaded fabulous audiences with her ballads....
There was Madam Noor Jehan....teaching South Asia how to be fabulous!
Thanks to Mohammad Ahmed for sharing the above clip!
On another note, acclaimed Pakistani director Mehreen Jabbar and co-director Fawzia Afzal Khan are working on a documentary on the history of female singers in Pakistan.
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Pakistani scholar Dr. Fawzia Afzal-Khan won the NEH grant to film the history of Pakistani female singers from 1947 to the present. The documentary film with the working title of "The Nightingales" will highlight the historical and emerging contributions by Pakistani female musicians to Pakistani society and culture, while allowing viewers to understand the history of the country through the lives
and music of these pioneering female artists. It is being directed by Mehreen Jabbar and co-directed by Fawzia Afzal-Khan.
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More info can be found on their facebook page.
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