After her husband's death, Shamshad Begum began living with her daughter and son-in-law in, first in south Mumbai and later at in the neighbourhood. She gradually became a recluse and devoted herself entirely to her grandchildren, to the point that the general public was unaware of whether she was alive or dead. In 2004, a controversy erupted in the media, when several publications wrongly reported that Shamshad Begum had died a few years previously. Shamshad's family clarified in a press release that this was not so and it later emerged that the Shamshad Begum who had died in 1998 was 's maternal grandmother. Her self-imposed seclusion is remarkable, because during all those decades away from the public eye, her old songs remained popular with the public and not a day passed without at least a couple of songs being played on and. Career 1924–40 Begum's talent was first spotted by her principal when she was in primary school in 1924. Impressed by the quality of her voice, she was made head singer of classroom prayer. At 10, she started singing folk-based songs at religious functions and family marriages. Her singing ambitions, which she held from 1929, met with opposition from her family. In 1931, when she was twelve(16), her uncle, who enjoyed and, secretly took her to Jenophone (or Xenophone) Music Company for an audition with Lahore-based musician and composer. Begum said in an interview, 'I sang Bahadur Shah Zafar's (the poet-ruler) ghazal Mera yaar mujhe mile agar.' An impressed Haider gave her a contract for twelve songs, with the same facilities provided to top singers.
It was Begum's paternal uncle Ameer Khan who convinced her father, Miya Hussain Baksh, to allow her to sing.
When she won a contract with a recording company, her father agreed to let her sing on the condition that she would record in a and not allow herself to be photographed. She earned 15 per song and was awarded 500 on the completion of the contract on Xenophone.
Xenophone was a renowned music recording company, patronised by the rich, and her popularity grew in elite circles in the early 1930s. Though she had won the Xenophone audition without having any formal music training, Hussain Bakshwale Sahab and later Ghulam Haider improved her singing skills between 19. Her popular breakthrough came when she began singing on (AIR) in Peshawar and Lahore from 1937.Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (13 October 1948 16 August 1997) was a Pakistani artist, essentially a vocalist of Qawwali, the reverential music of the Sufis.
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