Parkash Kaur
Parkash Kaur | |
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| Birth name | Parkash Kaur |
| Born | 19 September 1919 |
| Origin | Lahore, British India |
| Died | 2 November 1982 (aged 63) |
| Genres | Folk, Filmi |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, Playback singing |
| Years active | 1940–1982 (aged 42) |
Parkash Kaur (19 September 1919 – 2 November 1982) was an Indian singer. She sang mainly Punjabi folk songs, where she is credited, along with her sister Surinder Kaur, for pioneering and popularising the genre.
Early life[]
Prakash Kaur, Deedar Singh Pardesi and Surinder Kaur in Nairobi in 1967.
Kaur was born in Lahore, back then part of British India, into a Punjabi-Sikh family. She is the elder sister of Surinder Kaur, famous Punjabi singer-songwriter.
Career[]
Kaur made her professional debut with a live performance on 'Peshawar Radio' in 1941, and then on 31 August 1943, she and her younger sister, Surinder Kaur cut their first duet, "maavan 'te dheean ral baithian", for the HMV label, emerging as superstars across the Indian subcontinent.[1]
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Categories:
- 1919 births
- 1982 deaths
- Indian Sikhs
- Punjabi people
- Singers from Lahore
- Punjabi-language singers
- Indian women folk singers
- 20th-century Indian women singers
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