Nazia Hassan

Nazia Hassan was a Pakistani singer, songwriter, and philanthropist. Regarded as the "Queen of South Asian Pop, ” she is considered one of the most influential musical figures in Pakistan history who completely overturned the music industry in the late 70s and 80s, and is the subcontinent's early pop star after Ahmed Rushdi. Starting in the 1980s, as part of the duo Nazia and Zoheb, she and her brother Zoheb Hassan, have sold over 65 million records worldwide. Hassan made her singing debut with the song "Aap Jaisa Koi", which appeared in the Indian film Qurbani in 1980. She received praise for the single, and won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer at the age of 15 in 1981, becoming the first Pakistani to win and currently remains the youngest recipient of the award to date. Her debut album, Disco Deewane, was released in 1981, and charted in fourteen countries worldwide and became the best-selling Asian pop record up at the time. The album included the English-language single "Disco Deewane" which led her to be the first Pakistani singer to make it to the British charts. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazia_H...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)