Description: aye andleeb Chal, ke chalay din bahaar ke آغوشِ گل کشودہ براۓ وداع ہے اے عندلیب چل! کہ چلے دن بہار کے aik aor Ehd-e-Moseeqi aaj apne ikhtataam ko pohancha --------- Iqbal Banu was born 1935 in Delhi, India and died today on 21st April 2009 Lahore) she was an outstanding female Ghazal singer (both classical and modern ghazals) Career Iqbal Bano was invited by Radio Pakistan for performances, she being an accomplished artist. Her debut public concert was in 1957, at Lahore Arts Council, before an elite crowd. Music lovers feted her beyond imagination. With each recital, she generated more and more public appeal. She was considered a specialist in singing the works of Faiz Ahmed Faiz. She has given such musical relevance to the ghazals of Faiz, that Bano and Faiz are apparently inseparable in popular imagination. Because of Faiz's imprisonment and hatred of the Pakistani Government towards him, Bano roused a strong crowd of 50000 people in Lahore by singing his passionate Urdu nazm, "Hum Dekhenge." Iqbal Bano can sing Persian ghazals with the same fluency as Urdu. She is always applauded in Iran and Afghanistan for her Persian ghazals. The Iranians and Afghans thronged to her shows in large numbers to hear her ghazals in their mother tongue. Once she said in an interview, that she had a collection of 72 beautiful Persian ghazals. Before 1979, there was a festival of culture called Jashn-e-Kabul every year in Afghanistan. Iqbal Bano regularly received a warm invitation to <b>...</b> |
