![]() ![]() Begum said in a rare interview a few years ago. “Most of what I sang in those days was non-film stuff, because the talkies had just started in 1931 and not too many songs were incorporated in films in the first few years,” Ms. Begum kept her word even after her marriage, at 15, to Ganpatlal Batto, a lawyer who was also an amateur photographer.Įarly in her career she sang at weddings and religious functions as well as on records and on the radio. Her father allowed her to sing professionally only after she promised that she would wear a burqa to the recording studio and never attend functions or parties. Her career began when a leading music company signed her at 13 after a successful audition for the composer Ghulam Haider.
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