Reshma

Reshma
Also known as	Reshman
Born	c.1947 Ratangarh, Rajasthan, British India
Origin	Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Died	3 November 2013 (aged 66) Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Genres	Punjabi folk music
Years active	1968– 2004

Reshma (c.1947 – 3 November 2013),Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Star of Distinction) award, was a renowned Pakistani folk singer, who was also very popular in neighbouring India. She died on 3 November 2013 in Lahore, Pakistan, after suffering from throat cancer for several years.

Reshma was born in the village of Loha, Tehsil Ratangarh district Churu near [1] Bikaner, Rajasthan around 1947. Her father, Haji Muhammad Mushtaq, was a camel and horse trader from Malashi. She belonged to a tribe which had converted to Islam. Her tribe migrated to Karachi shortly after the Partition of India, when she was just one month old.

She did not receive any formal education and spent much of her childhood singing at the 'mazars' (shrines) of the mystic saints of Sindh, Pakistan. She was a vegetarian by choice and her favorite foods were 'saag' (cooked mustard greens), 'makai roti' (corn bread), and 'missi roti'- the foods of the Rajasthani, Punjabi and Sindhi people.

When she was twelve years old, she was spotted singing at Shahbaaz Qalandar's shrine by a Pakistani television and radio producer, Saleem Gilani, who arranged for her to make a recording of "Laal Meri Pat Rakhio" on Radio Pakistan in 1968. She became an instant hit and since that day, Reshma has been one of the most popular folk singers of Pakistan, appearing on television since 1968, recording songs for both the Pakistani and Indian film industry, and performing in live concerts at home and abroad.

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