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 onВ Vividh BharatiВ andВ All India Radio. RIP.' With Shamshad BegumвЂ™s demise, another unforgettable song from the glory days of Hindi film music now passes onto the jukebox of memory.Yet she is mostly linked with Hindi songs mostly recorded in the 1940s and 1950s. She also sang several popular songs in other regional languages. Her 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 Saira BanuвЂ™s maternal grandmother. Shamshad Begum is widely regarded as one among the first playback singers of Bollywood.In 2004, a controversy erupted in the media, when several publications wrongly reported that she had died a few years previously.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.Her songs from the 1940s to the early 1970s remain popular and continue to be remixed.She worked withВ maestrosВ includingВ Naushad Ali,В S.She had a distinctive voice and was a versatile artist, singing over 6,000 songs in Hindi and Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil and Punjabi languages and of them 1287 songs were Hindi film songs.

She was an Indian singer who was one of the first playback singers in the Hindi film industry.

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