Abida Parveen

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Abida Parveen (born 1954) (Sindhi: عابده پروين, Urdu: عابده پروین), is a Pakistani singer of Sindhi descent and one of the foremost exponents of Sufi music (Sufiana kalaam). She sings mainly ghazals, Urdu love songs, and her forte, Kafis, a solo genre accompanied by percussion and harmonium, using a repertoire of songs by Sufi poets. Parveen sings in Urdu, Sindhi,Saraiki, Punjabi and Persian, and together with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is considered one of the finest Sufi vocalists of the modern era.

Abida Parveen, a Sindhi, was born in mohalla Ali Goharabad in Larkana (Sindh province,Pakistan). She received her musical

Abida Parveen (right) with her spiritual master Muhammad Najeeb Sultan (center).

training initially from her father, Ustad Ghulam Haider, and later from Ustad Salamat Ali Khan of the Sham Chorasia gharana. Growing up, she attended her father’s music school,where her foundation in music was laid

Abida Parveen embarked upon her professional career from Radio Pakistan, Hyderabad, in 1973. Her first hit was the Sindhi song “Tuhinje zulfan jay band kamand widha”

Her master pieces include:

  • Aap Ki Abida
  • Are Logo Tumhara Kiya
  • Best of Abida Parveen (1997)
  • Baba Bulleh Shah
  • Abida Parveen Sings Songs of the Mystics Vol 1
  • Arifana Kalam
  • Chants Soufis Du Pakistan
  • Faiz by Abida
  • Ghalib by Abida Parveen
  • Ghazal Ka Safar Vol I
  • Ghazal Ka Safar Vol II
  • Har Tarannum
  • Hazrat Sultanul Arafin Haq Bahu Rematullah
  • Heer By Abida
  • Ho Jamalo
  • Ishq Mastana
  • Jahan-e-Khusrau
  • Jeewey Sain Yan Jeewey
  • Kabir by Abida (2002)
  • Kafian Bulleh Shah
  • Kafiyan Khwaja Ghulam Farid
  • Khazana
  • Kuch Is Ada Se Aaj
  • Latthe Di Chadar
  • Mahi Yaar Di Ghadoli
  • Mere Dil Se
  • Meri Pasand – Abida Parveen
  • Raqs-e-Bismil – Dance of the Wounded
  • Sarhadein
  • Sings Amir Khusrau
  • Tera Ishq Nachaya
  • The very best of Abida
  • Yaadgar Ghazalen Vol 1
  • Rukh-e-Murshid (A tribute to Abida Parveen’s Murshid Sahibzada Muhammad Najeeb Sultan)

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