Shazia Manzoor is a singer from Rawalpindi

Rawalpindi

Rawalpindi , locally known as Pindi, is a city in the Pothohar region of Pakistan near Pakistan's capital city of Islamabad, in the province of Punjab. Rawalpindi is the fourth largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad...

 who now resides in Lahore

Lahore

Lahore is the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab and the second largest city in the country. With a rich and fabulous history dating back to over a thousand years ago, Lahore is no doubt Pakistan's cultural capital. One of the most densely populated cities in the world, Lahore remains a...

, Punjab

Punjab (Pakistan)

Punjab is the most populous province of Pakistan, with approximately 45% of the country's total population. Forming most of the Punjab region, the province is bordered by Kashmir to the north-east, the Indian states of Punjab and Rajasthan to the east, the Pakistani province of Sindh to the...

, Pakistan

Pakistan

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. She is a popular singer in Pakistan and India and among the Punjabi diaspora. Shazia Manzoor sings mostly Punjabi

Punjabi language

Punjabi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by inhabitants of the historical Punjab region . For Sikhs, the Punjabi language stands as the official language in which all ceremonies take place. In Pakistan, Punjabi is the most widely spoken language...

 music. She has sung various Punjabi folk songs and Punjabi Sufi poems and also sings Urdu

Urdu

Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...

 songs as well. She is popular for her songs like Aaja Soniya, Mahi Aavega, Maye Ni Kinnu Akhan, Chann Mere Makkhna and Dhol Mahia, etc. In the GEO TV program Shareef Show Fakhar-e-Alam, another Pakistani singer claimed that there was time when very famous singers were not getting more than US$10,000 for a show in the United States

United States

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but that some people had offered Shazia US$40,000 for a show and she refused it.

Selected Albums

• Raatan Kaaliyan
• Aarfana Kalaam
• Chan Makhna
• Hai Dil Jani
• Ishq Sohna
• Tu Badal Gaya (March 2010)
• Balle Balle (May 2011)
• Sahib teri bandi haan
• Jatt London (February 2011)

Duo Collaboration

• 2001: Fix It Up (With DJ Vix)
• 2005: Groundshaker (With Aman Hayer)
• 2009: Collaborations 2 (With Sukshinder Shinda)

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