The 40th death anniversary of Ahmed Rushdi, a famous playback singer of Pakistan, is being observed today (Tuesday, April 11).
According to the media reports, the singer Ahmed Rushdi was born on 24th April 1934 in Hyderabad Deccan and migrated to Pakistan after independence. He contributed much more to the music of the Pakistani film industry.
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The singer recorded around 5000 songs for 583 films in Urdu, English, Punjabi, Bengali, Sindhi, and Gujarati, which are the highest number of film songs in the history of Pakistani cinema.
The Government of Pakistan awarded him with Sitara-e-Imtiaz, twenty years after his death, for his contributions to the field of music in 2003. He died on this day in 1983 in Karachi.
