Zubaida Khanum

Zubaida Khanum
Born	1935 Amritsar, British India
Died	19 October 2013 at age 78 Lahore, Pakistan
Genres	Ghazal, folk
Occupation(s)	Playback singer
Years active	1951-1960(retired)

Zubaida Khanum (1935 – 19 October 2013) was a Pakistani playback singer who recorded over 250 songs during Golden Age of Pakistani film music of 1950s and 1960s. She was considered Pakistani equivalent to Marni Nixon of Hollywood for giving voice to featured actresses in movie musicals.

Zubaida Khanum made her debut as a singer in film Billo (1951),when renowned Pakistani music director Ghulam Ahmed Chishti introduced her into the film industry,but she got her big breakthrough from film Shehri Babu in 1953 in which she instantly had many run-away super-hit film songs. Zubaida also acted as a supporting actress in a handful of films including Patay Khan (1955) and Dulla Bhatti (1956). However, she earned a name for herself as the most melodious film playback singer of Punjabi and Urdu films in the 1950s. She recorded over 250 songs, predominantly solo but also in duets with other playback singers especially her pair with Ahmed Rushdi attracted huge public admiration as they sang numerous hit duets during 1950s.

Her career lasted only for 8 years but her realistic voice and convincing super-hit film songs emerged as remembrance to the golden period of Pakistan's film industry.

She worked with all the famous film music directors of the time including Ghulam Ahmed Chishti, Rasheed Attre,Safdar Hussain,Salim Iqbal , Khwaja Khurshid Anwar and A.Hameed.

Zubaida Khanum was born in Amritsar, British India, in 1935, in a Muslim family. The family migrated to Lahore after independence in 1947.

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