Today marks the 50th Birthday of Pakistani pop singer Nazia Hassan. She was born on April 3, 1965 into a Muslim family in Karachi, Pakistan. She brought up in Karachi and London. She was the sister of singer Zoheb Hassan and Zahra Hassan.
She began singing during the late 1970s, when she appeared on several television shows on Pakistan Television (PTV) as a child artist. Her professional career started at the age of fifteen when she provided the lead vocals for the song ‘Aap Jaisa Koi’ from the 1980 film ‘Qurbani’.
Her song, ‘Aap Jaisa Koi’ made her famous in Pakistan and all of South Asia in the 1980s. Her debut album, Disco Deewane (1981), also charted in fourteen countries worldwide and became the best-selling Asian pop record until that time. Hassan was the first Pakistani to win a Filmfare Award and remains the youngest winner of a Filmfare Award in the category of Best Female Playback Singer to date when she was 15.
She is known as the Sweetheart of Pakistan. Hassan is still the symbol of grace, beauty and innocence. She died of lung cancer on August 13, 2000.
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