Peenaz Masani, "Shehzadi Tarannum" Options

[swarapriya]

Peenaz Masani

Apparently Peenaz didn’t even knew Urdu that well when she decided to be a ghazal singer. But since 1981, when she entered the ghazal field, she churned out nearly 30 albums to her credit, averaging little over a one a year. She cut ghazal albums, pop albums, sang in movies, and toured the world either giving concerts or as a goodwill ambassador in behalf of the Government of India. She sang in10 different languages.

She had three gold discs and a platinum disc. She was most recently awarded Padma Shri (last month) by the Government of India. The government of UP bestowed her with the title of “Shehzadi Tarannum� in recognition of her ghazal singing. In India alone she gave over 500 solo performances. In 1992 a book of her ghazals was published.

Here is her discography (this may not be complete).

In the next few weeks we will explore Peenaz’s albums. I am starting this thread at Erum Hashmi’s suggestion. Because I have only a limited number of albums, she will be contributing to this thread as well. If anyone can forward by uploading some of her albums, you are very much welcome to do so. I will let you know when I run out of albums.

[swarapriya]

Pooja Ke Phool

Here is a different sort of album from Peenaz. These are devotional songs. Peenaz made early in her career two devotional albums; "Pooja Ke Phool" and "Prabhu Ka Dhyan". Both albums were released by Universal. Not wanted to be branded, Peenaz decided to diversify and actually never made another devotional album besides these two.

The "Pooja Ke Phool" album I have has eight geets. Because of their lengths, I will upload them in two postings, one immediately after another. A friend of mine tells me that the original "Pooja Ke Phool" album had 10 geets. If so I am missing two. I don't have them, but if anyone of the members have, please kindly share. These two geets are:

1. Janam Janam Ke Punya
2. Kyon Bhoola Hari Naam

Also, I do not have information on the names of the lyricists of any of these geets. If anyone of you have, please kindly share with us.

Now for the first four geets from this album ...

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Mar 2 2009, 11:56 PM