Roshan Ara Begum was a
very famous clasical singer of Pakistan and India .She was born in 1917 in
Calcutta. She is the daughter of Ustad Abdul Haqq Khan .In 1948 she migrated
to Pakistan and settled in Lalamusa, a small town of Punjab .
She was very populor singer .She embodied in her art all the exquisite tonal
qualities and attributes of her mentor's delicate style of classical
vocalization. She proved equally good at alap while delineating raags and
also in taking breezy taans in the strand of her Ustad.She got the title of
Mallika-e-Mauseeqi.On December 6, 1982, Pakistani classical music in
particular and that of the subcontinent in general, was impoverished by the
death of vocalist Roshan Ara Begum.
