She did however get great teachers who transferred their knowledge to her in the best way possible. What could be the reason for the steady decline in her opinion?įarida Khanum talked about the days when as a child she was not very fond of singing. In fact, there is no memorable ghazal that’s come out this year.”Īli Sethi, who sat next to Khanum pointed out that even in the clip from the seventies, they were discussing that song isn’t the same anymore and now in 2018, the same is being pondered over. People with knowledge have left making music and there is no milaap of sur. “Song has become halka and there’s a marked difference in the kind of music out there. We don’t know where they are,” Farida Khanum said. One doesn’t have the courage to go looking for the people we used to learn from in case they aren’t there anymore. It was an emotional start to the night and one that set the tone for what was to come. In that moment she seemed frail and weak but moments later, when handed the mic one realized that her light could not be dimmed because she had a voice that could hold the audience’s attention as one would imagine it to. Instead an interview clip from the famed singer’s heyday, a 1974 interview with Zia Mohyuddin, was played where she sang and as that screen was lifted, she was brought out on a wheelchair. “No introduction can do her justice,” is what Bilal Tanweer, the host, an author and faculty member at LUMS said about Farida Khanum at her Maestros of Raag night.
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