Begum Akhtar... Gazal

Akhtaribai Faizabadi, or Begum Akhtar as she was more popularly known, was born on 7th October, 1914 in the small town of Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh in northern India. She was born in a high class family that was not musically inclined. However, at her uncles insistence, she was sent to train under Ustad Imdad Khan, the great sarangi exponent, and later under Ata Mohammed Khan. Later she travelled to Calcutta with her mother and started learning music from classical stalwarts like Mohammad Khan, Abdul Waheed Khan and finally she became the disciple of Ustad Jhande Khan Saheb.Her first public peformance was at the tender age of fifteen. She took the music world by storm. The famous poetess Smt. Sarojini Naidu appreciated her singing during a concert which was organised in the aid of victims of Bihar earthquake. This encouraged her to continue singing ghazals with more enthusiasm. She also cut her first disc for the Megaphone Record Company at that time. A number of gramophone records were released carrying her ghazals, dadras, thumris

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[clearpyram]

Mei Bade Bade Singers ko Bhool Gaya jab Akhtari Begum Sahiba ki gazals Suni.

[Adyamaaa]

Kya sunayeiN haiN aapnei..... Khuda aapka bhalaa kareiN.

[chawaisch]

you was matchless,your are matchless and i swear your would be matchless till the end of the civilization.

[samimriya]

cholo aar ekbar fir se sun lete hain

[TheAnitaGosain]

Great ...hearing it for the first time..