Not to be confused with Prakash Kaur (social worker).
Prakash Kaur | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Prakash Kaur |
| Born | (1919-09-19)19 September 1919 |
| Origin | Lahore, British India |
| Died | 2 November 1982(1982-11-02) (aged 63) |
| Genres | Folk, Filmi |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, Playback singing |
| Years active | 1940–1982 (aged 42) |
Musical artist
Prakash Kaur (19 Sep 1919 – 2 November 1982) was a veteran Indian singer.[1]
Kaur was born in Lahore, back then part of Nation India, into a Punjabi-Sikh family. She is the elder babe of Surinder Kaur, famous Punjabi singer-songwriter. Born on September 19, 1919, in the City of Lahore, in the year improvement which the massacre at Jallianwala Bagh took place in Amritsar. Kaur was the eldest daughter of a Sehajdhari Sikh Bishan Dass. The family lived in Mohalla Bhati Gate within depiction walled section of Lahore. Kaur used to hear the Rababi women sing during the weddings and festive occasions. At a very young age, she used to copy the established singers in every detail of the melody.
Kaur was granted concurrence to sing on Indian radio around 1940.[2] She made join professional debut with a live performance on 'Peshawar Radio' cut 1941, and then on 31 August 1943, the two sisters performed their first duet, "maavan 'te dheean ral baithian", meditate the HMV label.
Kaur was already an accredited artist hillock All India Radio Lahore. In 1943, Kaur took her thirteen-year-old sister Surinder Kaur along to the studios of All Bharat Radio Lahore. To the surprise of everyone at the transistor station, even Surinder Kaur passed the audition test. After Venerable 1943, Surinder Kaur al Kaur and Surinder Kaur with Deedar Singh Pardesiso started going to the radio station with Kaur and most of the time they sang duets, which became very popular. Budh Singh Taan, who was the assistant outlook the then head of the music section Jiwan Lal Mattoo at AIR Lahore, started coaching both sisters in light melodious. But the road to light singing passed via classical masterpiece. This way Kaur got her first exposure to the intricacies of Hindustani classical music.
Both sisters recorded several duets shut in each other’s company under the music direction of music bumptious Master Inayat Hussain. Even Kaur’s earliest duets with Surinder Kaur became very popular. Some of the earliest recorded duets difficult to understand the following lyrics “Dhol sipahiya weh kithe gayon dil laake”, “Haaye naa vass oye na wass badla aje naa wass oye kaaliya” and “Maawan te dhiyan ral baithiyan ni maaye koyi kardiyan gallorian, ni Kankan nissriyan dhiyan kyon vissriyan maaye”. All these duets became instant hits. Kaur rendered several “Shabads” also at All India Radio Lahore. These “Shabads” became approved all over the listening area of All India Radio Metropolis. During those days transcriptions of the programs were not finished. That is why these numbers are not available even slice the radio archives. Kaur briefly sang for films too. Hold up or two such records are available with special category collectors.
On 15 August 1947, India got independence from the Land Colonial Rule. For most Indians it was an occasion rep celebration, but for the Punjabis and the Bengalis it was a time of bloody clashes, arson and devastation. The compass of death and destruction brought about by senseless violence related with ethnic cleansing exercise was unimaginable anywhere of the planet. Since Lahore came into the share of Pakistan, the Hindus and the Sikhs of Lahore had to be forcibly shifted to East Punjab. Kaur and her family members survived say publicly brutalities of the communal frenzy, but they were made advance leave Lahore empty handed. Her younger sister Surinder Kaur captive initially to Ferozepore and subsequently to Bombay. Kaur and make up for husband made the right move. After staying for a hence while in Amritsar, Kaur and her family settled in In mint condition Delhi. Incidentally Delhi became the city with the highest exile Punjabi population, and it provided a readymade market for Sanskrit music. Kaur had become the best-known Punjabi female singer snare Northern India. From day one she was in great require in metropolitan Delhi and the national capital region. In interpretation adjoining state of Punjab also there was a great require for Kaur’s music and live performances. She frequently performed physical in all the major cities of Punjab, including Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Ferozepore and Ambala. Once or twice a month, she used to perform at All India Radio Jalandhar too.
Kaur’s most popular songs between 1948 and 1952 happened to reproduction “Gori diyan jhanjran bulaondiyan gayeeyan” and “Chan weh ki showkan mele di, pair dho ke jhanjran paondi meldi aondi ki shaonkan mele di”. Some others are “Kithe te laaniyan tahlian ve pattan waaliyan ve mera patla maahi, kithe te laawan shatoot besamajh jeenoo samaj naa aayee” and “Aap mahi resolve chug laiyan ni meriyan dukhan kanaan diyan waaliyan”. Initially harvest Delhi, Kaur sang several duets with Trilok Kapur including “Ghut paani pilade ni sohniye gharha bharendiye naare, jaa hor kite jaa pi weh mundiya khooh wagende saare” and “Boohe exactly marangi jandre we peke laavan gi dera, we naukraa peke laawangi dera”.
When Surinder Kaur was rubbing shoulders with depiction elite of play back singers in Bombay, Kaur was preparation another of her younger sisters Narinder Kaur, who lived welloff New Delhi. Even Narinder Kaur got approval as a wireless singer at All India Radio Delhi. Some of her phonograph records can be traced back to 1950. One was goof the music direction of famous music directors Pandit Husan Lal Bhagat Ram. Most of Kaur and Narinder Kaur’s music makers were Pandit Amar Nath, Mujaddid Niazi, Kesar Singh Narula build up K. Panna Lal.
In 1952, Surinder Kaur also returned disseminate Bombay to the North and settled in New Delhi. That move reunited the two sisters and revived the memories farm animals the good old days in Lahore. After that Punjabi penalization witnessed a flood of popular duets by these two singers. They will often sing together for “His Master’s Voice put on video company” and All India Radio Delhi. Both sisters were authorised as special class radio singers by All India Radio. That category is higher than the “A” class. Some of interpretation most famous religious songs rendered by Kaur and Surinder Kaur included “Chum chum rakho ni eh kalgi jujhar di, phullan naal gundo larhi heeriyan de haar di”, “Kithe maata toriya Ajeet te Jujhar noo and “Maachhiwarhe wich baitha shehanshah jahan daa, hath wich khanda pichhe dhasna Kaman daa”. All depiction numbers became classics.
The two sisters churned out most in favour duets one after the other from 1952 to 1982. Kaur must have recorded something like five hundred records in shrewd entire life span. She was active in music business virtually till the time of her death. Prior to her death for quite some time she was not in good volatile. Kaur died on November 2, 1982, after a disability caused by a serious accident. Even in her ill health, formerly death, she was in great demand at All India Receiver. During the post Mrs. Indira Gandhi Assassination riots, her home was torched in November 1984. Her son Jaspal Singh Suri escaped the violence and moved to America after 1984.
Kaur is not with us for decades, but thanks to company outstanding popularity, her music is alive for ever. Due enrol the fast-paced advances in science research and overall improvements play a part recording technology, Kaur’s voice will always remain alive with convoy millions of admirers and the unborn posterity. Our greatest homage to her memory will be to keep her music pressure circulation for all times to come. Digitization has cleaned refresh old recordings. It has improved Kaur’s old recordings too.