Pak pop queen being remembered on 9th anniversary today

KARACHI: Remember Nazia Hasan, the Pakistani singer whose song “Aap jaisa koi” in the film “Qurbani” made her an instant hit in India? Today is her ninth death anniversary. If “Aap jaisa koi” won Nazia, who was then 15, the Filmfare Best Female Singer award in 1981, it was her album “Disco Deewane” that created a new genre of Bollywood pop that survives to this day. Britain-based Indian composer Biddu, who had composed both the song and the album had said at the time, perhaps tongue in cheek

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