According to Following Article...Look likes this could be of FAIZ AHMED FAIZ...Waisay Personally Mujhay iss Ghazal mainn FAIZ aur FARAZ dononn ka Rang Nazar nahin aata
Iqbal Bano was born in 1935 and brought up in Delhi. She received training under Ustad Chaand Khan of Delhi Gharana. She moved to Pakistan after marriage.
Her husband had promised her that he would support her singing which he did till his death in 1980. It was difficult in Pakistan in those days for a lady to be a public singer.
But she gained immense popularity singing classical ghazals. Although belonging to the Begum Akhtar school, Iqbal Bano over the years, nurtured her style and embellish it with her own improvisations. Her ghazals are raaga based do not invlolve excessive orchestration.
She is also an accomplished Persian ghazal singer and was very popular in Iran and Afghanistan. She is considered as an expert in singing ghazals of Faiz Ahmed Faiz.
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Iqbal Bano was musically a very talented girl. She possessed a sweet and appealing voice. Even from that young age, Bano developed love for music from her heart. It was a crucial situation of her life when her friend's father came forward as her votary. He told her father, `My daughters do sing reasonably well, but Bano is blessed in singing. She will be a big name if you continue her training.' Because of persuasion from others and her attachment to music, he allowed her to be a student of music.
She remembers her teenage days of 1947, when the dispute of partition caused a condemnable stir everywhere in India. She disliked the riot and carnage of Delhi from the core of her heart. In Delhi, she learnt from Ustad Chaand Khan of Delhi gharana, an expert in all kinds of classical and light classical forms of vocal music. She was a duly initiated Gandaabandh shaagird of the Ustad. He forwarded her to All India Radio, Delhi and made her sing there.
In 1952, a zaminder from Pakistan married Bano, on the promise that he would never stop her music, but try to promote her. He fulfilled his promise until his last. After she migrated to the garden town, Lahore, she began learning with Ashiq Ali Khan and Abdul Karim Khan. It was observed that her temperament was apt to the genres, like thumri, dadra and ghazals.
Now and then, Radio Pakistan invited her for performances being an accomplished artiste. She rendered her debut public concert in 1957, at Lahore Arts Council, before an elite crowd. Her relatives went wild as was expected, but music lovers feted her beyond the imagination.
With her 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 the popular imagination. Because of Faiz's imprisonment, and hatred of the Pakistan Government towards him, once Bano roused a 50,000 strong crowd in Lahore by singing his passionate nazm:
`Ham Dekhenge Jab Taqht Giraaye Jaayenge
Jab Taj Uchaale Jaayenge'.
Moreover, once in the gathering of poets when Faiz was reciting his poetry, the audience repeatedly demanded, `Iqbal Bano wala qalaam.'
Renowned arts journalist S. Kalidas states, "The Pakistani ghazal singer Iqbal Bano is the uncontested Queen of ghazal. With her powerful, trained and tactile voice, she can cast a mesmeric spell with her thumris, dadras, geets and ghazals."
The lady of Rohtak, Haryana, Iqbal Bano can sing Persian ghazals with the same fluency of Urdu. She is always applauded in Iran and Afghanistan for her Persian ghazals. Similar to all the races of the world, Iranians and Afghans thronged to her shows in large numbers to hear her ghazals in their mother tongue. Once she told in an interview that she had a collection of 72 beautiful Persian ghazals.
Before 1979 there used to be the celebration of a festival of culture Jashne Kabul every year in Afghanistan. Iqbal Bano received a warm invitation in this annual event regularly. She was known for singing a new Persian ghazal each time in that festival. The king of Afghanistan liked her recital was very much. Once on such occasion, the emperor was so pleased from her ghazals that he presented her with a Golden Vase in appreciation of her music.
Music lovers discovered some notable similarities between Bano and Begum Akhtar, especially some marked resemblance in their styles of singing.
Iqbal Bano does not consider the contemporary ghazals as ghazal at all. Her recitals stick to the old classical style that lays more stress on the raag purity.
Basically a ghazal singer, Iqbal Bano also sang some memorable film songs.
Memorable Film Songs
Song
Film
Year
Tou lakh chali re gorie tham
Gumnaam
1954
Ulfat ki nai manzil kou chala
Qatil
1955
Dono dilon pe hua hay ulfat ka asar
Inteqam
1955
Ek pal bhi nahin aaram yahan
Aankh Ka Nasha
1957
Pareshan raat sarie hai
Ishq-e-Laila
1957
Sanwaria aana chori chori
Tere Baghair
1959
Shab e mehtaab hai
Ayaz
1960
Posted on 11/22/2005 3:35:06 PM
