Editor’s note: Musab Bin Noor of The Dream Journey, was kind enough to respond to the Hamnawa audience’s request for some words on Nayyara Noor. Nayyara Noor’s name translated into ‘a radiant star of light’. On 20th August, the star of her life on earth was extinguished after a battle with cancer. As with Shaukat Ali last year, Nayyara Noor’s death is something of a personal tragedy for me, because of the inextricable link between her voice and my formative years. Her voice was my initiation into the world of ghazal and nazm, my introduction to the poetry of Faiz, Nasir Kazmi and many others, my key to exploring music from my grandparents and great-grandparents generation, and an early introduction to the work of the golden generation of Pakistani TV composers. Through my personal recollections of some of her cassette albums, as well as around half a dozen of my favorite songs by hers, I’ll attempt to paint a picture of why Nayyara Noor remains such an indelible part of my life.
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Editor’s note: Musab Bin Noor of The Dream Journey, was kind enough to respond to the Hamnawa audience’s request for some words on Nayyara Noor. Nayyara Noor’s name translated into ‘a radiant star of light’. On 20th August, the star of her life on earth was extinguished after a battle with cancer. As with Shaukat Ali last year, Nayyara Noor’s death is something of a personal tragedy for me, because of the inextricable link between her voice and my formative years. Her voice was my initiation into the world of ghazal and nazm, my introduction to the poetry of Faiz, Nasir Kazmi and many others, my key to exploring music from my grandparents and great-grandparents generation, and an early introduction to the work of the golden generation of Pakistani TV composers. Through my personal recollections of some of her cassette albums, as well as around half a dozen of my favorite songs by hers, I’ll attempt to paint a picture of why Nayyara Noor remains such an indelible part of my life.