Tahira syed biography meaning
Tahira syed biography meaning
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Tahira Syed
Pakistani singer
Musical artist
Tahira Syed (in Punjabi and Urdu: طاہرہ سيد) (born 1958, Lahore) is a Pakistanighazal and folk singer.[1] Her repertoire includes folk songs in Urdu, Punjabi, Dogri and Pahari.[2][3]
Early life
Tahira Syed was born in Lahore to a vocalist Malika Pukhraj and Shabbir Hussain, a Punjabi, government official and writer.[4]
Syed obtained her primary education from the Convent of Jesus and Mary where she passed her Senior Cambridge examinations.[2] She graduated from Lahore College, then studied law at the Punjab University.[2] After obtaining an LLB degree, she enrolled in a Masters Program in English at Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore, but later dropped out of the college.[2]
Syed began singing, aged 12, to please her mother.
After two years of rigorous classical music training by Akhtar Hussain,[3] Syed was instructed in geet and ghazal by her moth