death_date death_place years_active birth_place background birth_date genre image article_title name occupation
23 april 2013 mumbai , maharashtra , india 1933 -- 1976 lahore , british india solo_singer 14 april 1919 playback singing file : shamshad begum.jpg shamshad begum
 shamshad begum शमशाद बेगम singer
shamshad begum

shamshad begum -lrb- , , , '' Śamśād bēgam '' ; 14 april 1919 -- 23 april 2013 -rrb- was an indian singer who was one of the first playback singers in the hindi film industry .
she had a distinctive voice and was a versatile artist , singing over 6,000 songs in hindi and the bengali , marathi , gujarati , tamil and punjabi languages and of them 1287 songs were hindi film songs .
she worked with maestros including naushad ali , s. d. burman , c. ramchandra and o. p. nayyar .
her songs from the 1940s to the early 1970s remain popular and continue to be remixed .
