FEROZA BEGUM ,BANGALADESI SINGER BORN 1930 JULY 28 -2014 SEPTEMBER 9
FEROZA BEGUM ,BANGALADESI SINGER BORN 1930 JULY 28 -2014 SEPTEMBER 9 .Feroza Begum (Bengali: ফিরোজা বেগম) (28 July 1930 – 9 September 2014) was a Bangladeshi Nazrul Sangeet singer.[2] She was awarded the Independence Day Award in 1979 by the Government of Bangladesh. Early life and career[edit] Feroza Begum was born in Gopalganj District on 28 July 1930 to the zamindar family of Ratail Ghonaparha.[3] Her parents were Mohammad Ismail and Begum Kowkabunnesa.[2] She became drawn to music in her childhood.[2] She started her career in 1940s.[4] Feroza Begum first sang in All India Radio while studying in sixth grade. She met the national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam at the age of 10. She became a student of him. In 1942, she recorded her first Islamic song by the gramophone record company HMV in 78 rpm disk format. Since then, 12 LP, 4 EP, 6 CD and more than 20 audio cassette records have been released.[5] She lived in Kolkata from 1954 until she moved to Dhaka in 1967.[2] ...