Category:Singers by time period

Singers that were active in the 1990s.

Name	Morris H. Chapman
Caption	President George W. Bush meets with the leadership of the Southern Baptist Convention in the Oval Office at the White House. Pictured with the President are Dr. Morris Chapman, left, Dr. Frank Page and his wife Dayle Page.
Birth date
Birth place	Kosciusko, Mississippi
Nationality	American
Occupation	Pastor
Religion	Christian
Denomination	Southern Baptist Convention
Website	http://www.morrischapman.com

Morris H. Chapman (b. 21 November 1940) was elected president and chief executive officer of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) Executive Committee on 1 October 1992. In September 2009 he announced that he would retire from this position effective 30 September 2010.

Early years

Chapman was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi on 21 November 1940. He graduated from Mississippi College in Clinton, Mississippi (1963) and earned the Master of Divinity (1968) and Doctor of Ministry (1975) degrees from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. He was awarded three honorary degrees, the Doctor of Sacred Theology, Southwest Baptist University, Bolivar, Missouri (1985); the Doctor of Divinity, Mississippi College (1992); and the Doctor of Sacred Theology, Grand Canyon University, Phoenix, Arizona (2005).

He served as pastor of First Baptist Church in Rogers, Texas (1967-1969), First Baptist Church of Woodway in Waco, Texas (1969-1974), and First Baptist Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico (1974-1979), where he also served as president of the New Mexico Baptist Convention (1976-1978). He became pastor of First Baptist Church in Wichita Falls, Texas (1979-1992), and was president of the 1986 SBC Pastors’ Conference in Atlanta. Speaking in February 2003 Chapman called on Southern Baptists to return to their heritage. Talking of their settled conviction of the truth of the gospels, he said that "Our forefathers drank from the deep, pure well named 'sound theology.'" Addressing SBC delegates at a June 2004 convention, Chapman celebrated the success of the conservative resurgence and attributed its success to support from the rank-and-file.

In November 2005 Chapman defended the SBC against what he saw as harsh criticism about the church's conservative direction in former President Jimmy Carter's book, "Our Endangered Values", and attacked Carter's positions on subjects such as abortion and homosexuality. In January 2007 Carter and former President Bill Clinton proposed that a broadly inclusive alternative Baptist movement should be established to counter what they called a negative image of Baptists. Chapman disputed the contention that Baptists had a negative image, and pointed out that the SBC was by no means a "white" organization since of the 43,071 churches 4,742 said they were mainly "ethnic" and 2,085 said they were mainly African-American.

In June 2006 Chapman said that an excessive emphasis on Calvinism should be avoided to prevent division in the church. He called on Baptists to avoid disputing minor issues and to commit to cooperation in missions to spread the word of Jesus throughout the world. His 2009 report to the SBC noted "a resurgence in the belief that divine sovereignty alone is at work in salvation without a faith response on the part of man." This drew criticism as being unacceptable to Calvinists, and Chapman hastened to clarify that he was not denying the importance of faith but was asserting that it was a gift of God.

Talking in February 2009 about the financial crisis in the USA, Chapman said it could give birth to spiritual awakening if Christians are willing "to abandon all of self for all of Christ". In June 2009 he advocated launching a Christian alternative to public education, saying that "In far too many public schools throughout the country our children are being bombarded with secular reasoning, situational ethics and moral erosion".

Great Commission Resurgence

In May 2009, Chapman spoke out against the Great Commission Resurgence Declaration, specifically Article IX of this declaration which was critical of the organization of the SBC and proposed a number of changes. In September 2009, while announcing his plan to retire, Chapman said he would launch an initiative to support a "Great Commission Resurgence". The Great Commission Resurgence task force formed by SBC President Johnny Hunt, which was chaired by Ronnie Floyd, issued a report in May 2010 pressing for a revival of evangelism in the face of declining baptisms and outlining new responsibilities for Southern Baptist mission organizations. At their annual meeting in June 2010 the members of the Southern Baptist Convention overwhelming endorsed the report.

Chapman publicly opposed the report, saying "the recommendations are about moving the chairs on the deck of the Titanic while the ship goes down into an icy, watery grave". He issued a list of alternate recommendations to those given by the task force. In his final report prior to his retirement to the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Orlando in June 2010, Chapman said the last five recommendations of the task force did not sufficiently address spiritual needs, but instead concentrated on organizational issues.

Bibliography

References

Category:Southern Baptist ministers Category:Living people Category:1940 births

Name	Miyuki Nakajima
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	中島 美雪 (Miyuki Nakajima)
Born	February 23, 1952
Origin	Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan
Genre	Folk, folk rock, rock, kayokyoku, enka |
Occupation	Singer, composer, lyricist, radio-DJ, author, actress
Years active	1975 - present
Instrument	VocalsGuitars
Label	AARD-VARK/Pony CanyonYamaha Music Communications
Url	www.miyuki.jp

(born February 23, 1952 ) is a Japanese vocalist, guitarist, lyricist, composer and radio personality. As a principal Japanese female veteran singer-songwriter she is often compared to Yumi Matsutoya, she has released 37 studio albums, 40 singles, 2 live albums and multiple compilations to date, and whose sales have been estimated at more than 21 million copies.

In the mid 1970s, Nakajima signed to the Canyon Records and launched her recording career with her debut single "Azami Jo no Lullaby". After rising to fame thanks to the hit "The Parting Song (Wakareuta)" released in 1977, she has enjoyed a successful career as a singer-songwriter, most strikingly in the early 1980s. She has produced four singles that sold more than a million copies in the last two decades, including "Earthly Stars (Unsung Heroes)". She is also well-known for her experimental theatre performances called "Yakai", performed every year-end from 1989 through to 1998. The idiosyncratic acts featured scenarios and songs she wrote but have continued irregularly in recent years.

In addition to her work as a solo artist, Nakajima has written over 90 compositions for numerous other singers, and has produced several chart-toppers. She is also one of the Japanese songwriters who has had the greatest number of cover versions of her songs performed by non-Japanese East Asian singers, especially Taiwanese and Hong Kong ones.

Nakajima is one of the literarily acclaimed Japanese songwriter of modern times, winning a couple of the country's Record Awards for her contributions as a lyricist. She is known as the sole musician whom was a participants of the National Language Council of Japan, took part in the late 1990s.

Early life

In February 1952, was born in Sapporo, the capital city of Hokkaido. Her grandfather Buichi was a former politician of Hokkaido, and her father, Shinichi, ran a clinic specializing in obstetrics and gynecology. When she was five years old, her family moved from Sapporo to Iwanai, where they lived for six years. Nakajima lived mainly in Obihiro City when she was a teenager. She was one of the most eminent graduates from Obihiro Hakuyou High School, along with singer-songwriter Miwa Yoshida and television announcer Shinichiro Azumi. She entered the Fuji Women's University in Sapporo, and graduated in 1974.

When she was a third grade student in high school, she gave her first live performance, playing the self-penned song "Tsugumi no Uta" on stage at the cultural festival. Since then, Nakajima launched participation to be a musician gradually.

In 1972, Nakajima participated in a folk contest held at the Hibiya Open-Air Concert Hall in Tokyo, and then she played a song called "Atashi Tokidoki Omouno". Her songwriting won the prize, and her performance was released as a part of an album which recorded the contest. This became her first recorded material.

After graduating the university, Nakajima continued striving to be a professional musician for nearly a year. Reportedly, she had already written more than a hundred songs before she debuted.

Career as a recording artist

Early career (1975-1980)

In May 1975, her composition "Kizutsuita Tsubasa (Wings of Love -I Knew Nothing-)" won the prize on the 9th Popular Song Contest (also known by its abbreviation "Popcon"), organised by the Yamaha Music Foundation. After the contract with the Yamaha and Canyon Records, she debuted with a single "Azami Jo no Lullaby" that was released in September of the same year. In October, Nakajima entered the above mentioned contest with another her song "Jidai (Time Goes Around)", and gained the prize. It also won grand-prix of the 6th World Popular Song Festival, the other awards organised by Yamaha and held in December.

In May 1976, she released the first studio album entitled Watashi no Koe ga Kikoemasuka. Since then, she has been worked as a prolific recording artist vigorously, producing one album a year. In the same year, Nakajima produced the number-one hit single as a composer for the first time, through "Abayo" which was recorded by Naoko Ken and sold over 700,000 copies. Throughout her over 30-year career, she has been contributing some 90 compositions as a songwriter for other artists, and making some of them huge hits such as "Shiawase Shibai"(recorded by Junko Sakurada), "Kamome wa Kamome"(a comeback single for Ken, released in 1978), and "If I Could Take to the Sky (Kono Sora wo Tobetara)" (performed by Tokiko Kato, released in 1978). Nakajima occasionally released retrospective albums which comprised songs written for other artists. The first one, Okaerinasai came out in 1979 has sold more than 500,000 units, and it became one of the best-selling albums for her.

Like the other than popular folk-rock singers in Japan such as Takuro Yoshida and Yosui Inoue, she has refused to appear on any kind of television program after she gained popularity, except handful of specials. Still Nakajima promoted her materials on TV in early career, particularly through the Cocky Pop which was sponsored by her management office Yamaha.

Miyuki Nakajima's fifth single "Wakareuta (The Parting Song)" released in September 1977, became her commercial breakthrough song as a singer. The song reached number-one on the Oricon for only a week in December 1977, knocking "Wanted (Shimei Tehai)" by Pink Lady from the top of the hit parade. "The Parting Song" has finally sold more than 700,000 copies and became one of the following year's biggest hits on the Japanese record chart.

Her 4th studio album entitled Aishiteiru to Ittekure built up her long-lasting popularity as a performer. The album that featured "The Parting Song" also includes the other highlight; a protest song entitled "Sejou (World's Context)", which became popular after used in the well-known TV drama Kimpachi Sensei in 1981.

In addition to the career as a recording artist, Nakajima has been known for the working as a personality of radio programs. Most eminent is All Night Nippon which has been one of the longest lasting programs aired by the Nippon Broadcasting System, which she participated as a host from April 1979 through March 1987. Instead of TV appearances, she fostered her popularity through the witty and somewhat manic talking on the program.

Most of her compositions came out in the 1970s and 1980s are featuring lyrics which exposed grief or hatred explicitly. Sometimes such her works gained mixed reputations. Particularly, her 1980 album Ikiteitemo Iidesuka (it stands for "May I Live?" in Japanese), and its lead-off track "Urami Masu" (it features haunting lyric which means "I'll continue having a grudge against you 'til I die", and vocals like sobbing) brought about controversy because of their extreme titles.

1980s; Commercial peak and decline

The first half of the 1980s was commercial heyday for a singer-songwriter Miyuki Nakajima. Seven of her studio albums that were released during that era (from Ikiteitemo Iidesuka to miss M.) reached the number-one on the Oricon Charts successively. "Akujo", a more accessible tune than her previous material, was released as a single in autumn 1981. The song became one of the biggest JP hits of the following year, providing her with the first number-one spot on the Oricon singles chart since "The Parting Song" released in 1977. Kansuigyo, her eighth studio album that featured another interpretation of "Akujo" is the most commercially successful long-playing work of hers. The album peaked at the number one spot on the Oricon for six weeks, and also reached the top of the Japanese year-end albums chart of 1982. In the same year, she also produced a couple of top-3 charting singles; "Yuwaku" and "Unrequited Love".

As a composer and lyricist, Nakajima continued to write for other artists and gained success. "Suzume (Sparrow)", the first solo single for ex-Pink Lady Keiko Masuda whom was not successful at that time, led the performer to the top-10 spot again. In 1983, Nakajima won the 25th Japan Record Award for her songwriting on "Haru Nanoni", a song sung by then teenage pop icon Yoshie Kashiwabara. She continued career as a recording artist regularly during the mid 1980s, though subsequent releases were commercially less successful compared with previous materials. A string of her efforts that came out at that era has featured harder-edged sounds, because she came to introduce digital recording radically.

"Cold Farewell (Tsumetai Wakare)" released as a single in 1985 was the first song she produced in countries outside Japan. A top-ten charting song features lengthy harmonica solo performed by Stevie Wonder. He also played the synthesizer on Nakajima's subsequent single "Atai no Natsuyasumi", released in the following year.

In 1987, Nakajima contributed lyrics for the composition by Tsugutoshi Goto, a bassist and a record producer who had been one of long-term collaborators for her. The song entitled "Fu-Ji-Tsu" was released as a second single for a teen idol Shizuka Kudo who has also well-known as ex-member of Onyanko Club. During the late 1980s and the early 1990s, Nakajima and Goto wrote 17 songs for Kudo and some of them topped the chart, including "Dokoku (I Cried All Night)" released in 1993 and certified quadruple platinum by the RIAJ for shipments of in excess of a million copies. Songwriting partnership with Goto was ended in 1993, but Nakajima has been continuing to write several songs for Kudo in later years.

Project with Ichizo Seo and Yakai

Goodbye Girl released in 1988 was the album which she worked with a long-term co-record producer Ichizo Seo for the first time.Nakajima, who was highly satisfied with the recording of the album, considered Seo to the most appropriate musical partner for her. She has been working with him since the end of the 1980s.

Enlisting a new collaborator, Nakajima launched the experimental musical Yakai at the Bunkamura Theatre Cocoon, Shibuya, Tokyo. Yakai has composed of intricate story lines she newly wrote, and it was initially started as a sort of jukebox musical mainly comprising her songs that were previously issued. Her idiosyncratic efforts gradually became the famous stage performances which were held in every December for 10 years. Since the 7th act which was entitled 2/2 in 1995, Yakai came to be composed of new songs she specially composed. Most of those performances have been released on DVDs.

1990s

Since the 1990s, Nakajima gradually came to appear several television programs and advertisements, though she continuingly rejected to turn up on the pop music television shows. In 1992, Nakajima appeared the television drama Shin'ai Naru Mono e (its title was named after her 1979 studio album), and played the acting as a doctor on the first and the last episode. From 1993 through 2000, Nakajima also continuingly appeared TV advertisements of the Japan's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. Those commercials (most of them were featuring a new rendition of her early song "Time Goes Around" recorded in 1993) were aired during the Bon Festival and holiday seasons in Japan.

"Asai Nemuri (Shallow Sleep)", a theme song Nakajima wrote for the drama Shin'ai Naru Mono e was released as a single and gained massive success, selling more than a million copies and peaked at the number-two on the chart. It was included on her studio album East Asia released in October 1992. The album also features "Ito (Tapestry)", which is one of her songs that many artists covered, especially famous for the interpretation by Kazutoshi Sakurai and Takeshi Kobayashi's charity supergroup Bank Band.

In the middle of the decade, she wrote a couple of theme songs for Ienakiko, the TV drama series starring Yumi Adachi and which was aired on the NTV. The first one, a song entitled "Sora to Kimi no Aida ni (Between the Sky and You)" was released as a single in May 1994, and debuted at the number-one on the Japanese Singles Chart. The song became her most commercially successful record to date, selling in excess of 1.4 million copies. The other her composition "Wanderers Song" was featured on the sequel of the drama series aired in the following year, and it also gained similar success, reaching the number-one on the chart and selling over a million units.

Daiginjo, her compilation which was brought out in March 1996 provided her with last number-one spot on the albums chart, making her the oldest female artist who has produced number-one album on the Japanese music chart at that time (the record was overtaken by Yumi Matsutoya and Mariya Takeuchi in later years).

However, each of her studio albums released in the 1990s were commercially lackluster, and some of them failed to reach the top-10 on the chart. Tsuki; Wings and Hi; Wings released in 1999 are the worst selling albums for her, both of them has sold less than 50,000 copies.

2000s

A quarter of a century later from her debut, Miyuki Nakajima left longtime Pony Canyon label and moved to newly founded Yamaha Music Communications. Then she released a double A-side single "Earthly Stars (Unsung Heroes)"/"Headlight Taillight", which later became her most well-known songs. She wrote them for the theme songs for Project X; Chousensha Tachi, the acclaimed television documentary program which was premiered on the NHK in March 2000. The single was debuted at the number 15 on the Oricon in July 2000, and it kept on charting for over 2 years. To express thanks for the unexpected commercial success of the theme songs of Project X, Nakajima decided to appear the 53rd annual music program Kōhaku Uta Gassen aired by the NHK on New Year's Eve of 2002. It gained public attention because it was her first live performance on TV since the late 1970s.

In 2006, Nakajima wrote the song called "Sorafune (Ship in the Air)" for the boy band Tokio. The song was used as the closing theme for My Boss, My Hero, the TV drama starring the group's frontman Tomoya Nagase. It became the second most commercially successful materials for them which followed their debut single, remaining on the Oricon chart for more than a year and selling approximately 480,000 copies. "Ship in the Air" was also the first chart-topper that Nakajima contributed both lyric and melody for other artist in 30 years, since "Abayo" recorded by Naoko Ken in 1976. After a month from the release of her studio album Lullaby Singer that features her own interpretation of "Ship in the Air", her contribution for the Tokio won the "best lyrics" of the 48th Japan Record Award.

Her latest studio album entitled I Love You, Do You Hear Me? was released on October 3, 2007. The album debuted at the number-four on the Oricon with in excess of 39,000 copies sold in its first week of release, and its provided Nakajima with the 34th top-ten hits on the Japanese albums charts.

Honors

In November 2009, Nakajima was awarded with a Medal of Honour with purple ribbon by the Government of Japan.

Discography

Studio albums

(1976) (1976) (1977) (1978) (1979) (1979) (1980) " (1981) (1982) (1983) (1984) (1985)

miss M. (1985)

36.5°C (1986)

(1988) (1988) Kaikinetsu (1989) (1990) (1991)

East Asia (1992)

(1993)

Love or Nothing (1994)

10 Wings (1995)

(1996) (1998) (1999) (1999) (2000) (2001) (2002) (2003 (2004) (2005) (2006) (2007)

Drama! (2009)

(2010)

Filmography

Live performances

Tours

1977 Spring Concert

1977 Autumn Concert

1978 Spring Tour

1978 Autumn Tour

1979 Spring Tour

1979 Autumn Tour

Miyuki Nakajima Concert (1980 Autumn Tour)

(1981) (1982) (1982–83) Nakajima Miyuki Concert (1982–83) Nakajima Miyuki Concert '84 (1984) Nakajima Miyuki Concert '84 (1984–85) Nakajima Miyuki Concert '85 (1985) Nakajima Miyuki Concert '85 Page 85" (1985) Nakajima Miyuki Concert '86 " (1986) Nakajima Miyuki Concert '86 Page 86 " " (1986)

Miyuki Nakajima Concert '87 "Suppin Vol.1" (1987)

Nakajima Miyuki Concert 1989 " (1989)

Concert Tour '90 "Night Wings" (1990)

Concert "Carnival 1992" (1992)

Concert Tour '93 "East Asia" (1993)

Concert '95 "Love or Nothing" (1995)

Concert Tour '97 "Paradise Cafe" (1997)

Concert Tour '98 (1998)

XXIc. 1st. (2001)

Concert Tour 2005

Concert Tour 2007

Yakai

Yakai (1989) Yakai 1990 (1990) Yakai Vol.3 Kan-Tan (1991) Yakai Vol.4 Kinkanshoku (1992) Yakai Vol.5 "Hana no Iro wa Utsuri ni keri na Itazura ni Waga Mi Yo ni Furu Nagame Seshi Ma ni" (1993) Yakai Vol.6 Shangri-La (1994)

Yakai Vol.7 2/2 (1995)

Yakai Vol.8 Tou Onna (1996)

Yakai Vol.9 2/2 (1997)

Yakai Vol.10 Kaishou (1998)

Yakai Vol.11 Winter Garden (2000)

Yakai Vol.12 Winter Garden (2002)

Yakai Vol.13 24-ji Chaku 0-ji Hatsu (2004) Yakai Vol.14 24-ji Chaku 00-ji Hatsu (2006) Yakai Vol.15 Ganso Konbanya (2008–09)

Awards

Notes and references

Article of Miyuki Nakajima on ja:wikipedia org

Miyuki Nakajima Laboratory (Fan Site)

External links

Official Site (Japanese)

Nippop Profile | Miyuki Nakajima

Miyuki Nakajima at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Floyd Cramer
Background	non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth name	Floyd Cramer
Born	October 27, 1933
Died	December 31, 1997
Instrument	Piano
Occupation	Pianist
Associated acts	Elvis Presley, Chet Atkins, Patsy Cline

Floyd Cramer (October 27, 1933 – December 31, 1997) was an American Hall of Fame pianist who was one of the architects of the "Nashville Sound." He popularized the 'slip note' piano style where one note slides effortlessly into the next. This was a major departure from the percussive piano style which was popular in the late 1950s.

Born in Shreveport, Louisiana, Cramer grew up in the small town of Huttig, Arkansas, teaching himself to play the piano. After finishing high school, he returned to Shreveport, where he worked as a pianist for the Louisiana Hayride radio show. After Cramer relocated permanently to Nashville, Allen "Puddler" Harris, a native of Franklin Parish in northeastern Louisiana, replaced him as the pianist for the Hayride.

Biography

In 1953, Floyd Cramer entered the recording studio and cut his first single, "Dancin' Diane", backed with "Little Brown Jug", for the local Abbott label. He then toured with an emerging talent who would later figure significantly in his career, Elvis Presley.

Cramer moved to Nashville in 1955 where the use of piano accompanists in country music was growing in popularity. By the next year he was, in his words "in day and night doing sessions.” Before long, he was one of the busiest studio musicians in the industry, playing piano for stars such as Elvis Presley, Brenda Lee, Patsy Cline, The Browns, Jim Reeves, Eddy Arnold, Roy Orbison, Don Gibson, and the Everly Brothers, among others. It was Cramer's piano playing, for instance, on Presley's first national hit, "Heartbreak Hotel." However, Cramer remained strictly a session player, a virtual unknown to anyone outside the music industry.

Cramer had released records under his own name since the early 1950s, and became well known following the release of "Last Date", a 45 rpm single in 1960. The instrumental piece exhibited a relatively new concept for piano playing known as the "slip note" style. The record went to Number two on the Billboard Hot 100 pop music chart, and sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.

In 1961 Cramer had a hit with "On the Rebound," which went to number three, and number one the UK chart. ("On the Rebound" was later featured during the opening credits of the 2009 Oscar-nominated film An Education, which was set in 1961 England). That same year Cramer also hit with "San Antonio Rose" (number eight).

By the mid-1960s, Cramer had become a respected performer, making numerous record albums and touring with guitar maestro Chet Atkins and saxophonist Boots Randolph; also performing with them as a member of the Million Dollar Band.

Over the years, Cramer continued to balance session work with his own albums. Many of these featured standards or popular hits of the era and from 1965 to 1974 he annually recorded a disc of the year's biggest hits prefaced "Class of . . ." Other long-players included I Remember Hank Williams (1962), Floyd Cramer Plays the Monkees (1967), Looking For Mr Goodbar (1968) and Sounds of Sunday (1971). In 1977 Floyd Cramer and the Keyboard Kick Band was released, on which he played eight different keyboard instruments.

Discography

Albums

Singles

See also

The Nashville A-Team

References

Escott, Colin (1998). "Floyd Cramer". In The Encyclopedia of Country Music. Paul Kingsbury, Editor. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 117–8.

External links

http://www.rockhall.com/hof/inductee.asp?id=2028

http://www.spaceagepop.com/cramer.htm

http://www.countrymusichalloffame.com/site/inductees.aspx?cid=110#

Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

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Name	Abida Parveen
Background	solo_singer
Origin	Larkana, Pakistan
Genre	KafiGhazalQawwali
Occupation	SingerMusician
Years active	1973–present

Abida Parveen (born 1954) (, }}), is a singer of Sindhi descent and one of the foremost exponents of Sufi music (Sufiana kalaam). She sings mainly ghazals, Urdu love songs, and her forte, Kafis, a solo genre accompanied by percussion and harmonium, using a repertoire of songs by Sufi poets. Parveen sings in Urdu, Sindhi, Seraiki, Punjabi and Persian, and together with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is considered one of the finest Sufi vocalists of the modern era. A few years ago she has taken a Bay'ah, and formally entered into the tutelage of a spiritual master, Muhammad Najeeb Sultan. She has expressed Muhammad Najeeb Sultan as her spiritual master in many songs. In December 2009 she launched an album in his name.

Early life

Abida Parveen, a Sindhi, was born in mohalla Ali Goharabad in Larkana (Sindh province, Pakistan).

Career

Abida Parveen embarked upon her professional career from Radio Pakistan, Hyderabad, in 1973. Her first hit was the Sindhi song “Tuhinje zulfan jay band kamand widha”.

Coke Studio

Abida performed on the internationally acclaimed Pakistani show Coke Studio, on which she sang three songs, including Ramooz-e-Ishq, Nigah-e-Darwaishaan, and Soz-e-Ishq.

Personal life

Abida was married to Ghulam Hussain Sheikh, senior producer at Radio Pakistan, who died a few years ago and who nurtured her development as a singer in her early years. The couple had a daughter Priya, an MBA who acts as her adviser, and a son Saranj.

Awards

President of Pakistan’s Award for Pride of Performance (1982), and the Sitara-e-Imtiaz (2005).

Discography

Aap Ki Abida

Are Logo Tumhara Kiya

Best of Abida Parveen (1997)

Baba Bulleh Shah

Abida Parveen Sings Songs of the Mystics Vol 1

Arifana Kalam

Chants Soufis Du Pakistan

Faiz by Abida

Ghalib by Abida Parveen

Ghazal Ka Safar Vol I

Ghazal Ka Safar Vol II

Har Tarannum

Hazrat Sultanul Arafin Haq Bahu Rematullah

Heer By Abida

Ho Jamalo

Ishq Mastana

Jahan-e-Khusrau

Jeewey Sain Yan Jeewey

Kabir by Abida (2002)

Kafian Bulleh Shah

Kafiyan Khwaja Ghulam Farid

Khazana

Kuch Is Ada Se Aaj

Latthe Di Chadar

Mahi Yaar Di Ghadoli

Mere Dil Se

Meri Pasand - Abida Parveen

Raqs-e-Bismil - Dance of the Wounded

Sarhadein

Sings Amir Khusrau

Tera Ishq Nachaya

The very best of Abida

Yaadgar Ghazalen Vol 1

Rukh-e-Murshid (A tribute to Abida Parveen's Murshid Sahibzada Muhammad Najeeb Sultan)

References

External links

Abida Parveen Biography

Courting Ecstasy In Songs Of Pakistan at New York Times

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