Mehnaz

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There are multiple artists that have recorded under the name Mehnaz. 1. Mehnaz Begum (1950 – 19 January 2013), or simply Mehnaz, was a Pakistani singer, well known for her film appearances. Mehnaz was the daughter of a superstar, Kajjan Begum a ghazal singer and early pioneer of film music, who in her lifetime was beloved all across the Indian sub-continent. It was inevitable that Mehnaz would follow in her mother’s footsteps and take up a career as a singer. 2. Mehnaz Hoosein trained under Pandit Bhavdeep Jaipurwale. Here she found the true power that lay in her vocal abilities and that prowess spanned the range of musical styles like Jazz, Soul, Pop and Classical-all of which were second nature to her. But all that talent lay dormant during the period in which she worked with Shiamak Davar, from who she learned to dance. She attributes her superb and powerful dancing skills to training with him for six years. That was when she recorded her first demo and sent it to the A&R executives in BMG who signed her on after a failed first attempt at capturing the artist. Then we saw a first glimpse of Mehnaz the singer in her first video Miss India from her debut album of the same name. It was a video with a story similar to the ugly duckling and the song found an immediate audience among the youth of the country. But musically Miss India, which was composed by Asif Ali Baig and Merlyn D’Souza, was a change from what was being churned out. It was a full sound with the least bit of

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