Gulbahar Bano | |
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Origin | Bahawalpur District, Punjab (Pakistan), Pakistan |
Genres | Ghazal |
Years active | 1970s–present |
Gulbahar Bano is a Pakistani ghazal singer. [1] She started her singing career in the 1970s and early 80s from Radio Pakistan, Bahawalpur station. [2] Irfan Ali, station director of radio Pakistan Bahawalpur first gave her a chance on radio and then helped her move to Karachi. She moved to Karachi in the 1980s and shifted her focus from Kafi to ghazal singing. Later she moved to Lahore. She received the Presidential Pride of Performance, the highest literary award in Pakistan, in 2000.