Nayyara Noor

Nayyara Noor
Born	3 November 1950 Assam
Origin	Pakistani
Genres	Ghazal singing, film Playback singing
Occupation(s)	Playback singer
Instruments	Vocalist
Years active	1971–2012

Nayyara Noor (Urdu: نیرہ نور ‎) is a Pakistani playback singer who is considered to be one of South Asia's popular film songs playback singer and a stage performer in the live ghazal singing concerts on Pakistan Television shows or in concert halls in the country mainly active from 1971-2012.

Nayyara Noor was born in 1950 in Assam, India. Her ancestors and family were a merchant class hailing originally from Amritsar, Punjab, British India who had settled in Guwahati in Assam State in the North-Eastern India. Her father was an active member of the All-India Muslim League and had played host to Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah,leader of the ongoing movement for creating a new country called Pakistan, on his trip to Assam before the Partition of India in 1947.It was in 1957 (or 1958,Nayyara Noor is not sure) that her mother with 7 year old Nayyara Noor and her siblings migrated to Pakistan and settled down in Lahore, Pakistan.Her father had to stay back in Assam until 1993 because he wanted to sell-off his properties in Assam before migrating to Pakistan to join the rest of his family. As a child, Nayyara is said to have been inspired by the bhajans of Kanan Devi and Kamla as well as the ghazals and thumris of Begum Akhtar.

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