Noor Jehan was one of the subcontinent's first great singing stars, a child prodigy trained in the Patiala tradition of Hindustani classical music who became the reigning female voice of 1940s Indian film before migrating to Pakistan after Partition, where she reigned for decades more. Nicknamed Malika-e-Tarannum, the Queen of Melody, she was famed for a powerful, ornamented, emotionally overflowing romantic style. Her 1940s recordings were the model the young Lata Mangeshkar first imitated.

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1946

Awaaz De Kahan HaiNoor Jehan