INFORMATION
| Artist Birtday : | 19/09/1919 (Age 2 November 1982 (aged 63)) |
| Born In : | Lahore, British India |
| Occupation(s) : | Singer, Playback singing |
| Genres : | Folk, Filmi |
Parkash Kaur (19 September 1919 – 2 November 1982) was an Indian singer. She sang mainly Punjabi folk songs, where she is credited, along with her sister Surinder Kaur, for pioneering and popularizing the genre. Prakash Kaur also sang Pashtu folk songs.
Kaur was already an accredited artist of All India Radio Lahore. In 1943, Kaur took her thirteen-year-old sister Surinder Kaur along to the studios of All India Radio Lahore. To the surprise of everyone at the radio station, even Surinder Kaur passed the audition test. After August 1943, Surinder Kaur al Kaur and Surinder Kaur with Deedar Singh Pardesiso started going to the radio station with Kaur and most of the time they sang duets, which became very popular. Budh Singh Taan, who was the assistant to the then head of the music section Jiwan Lal Mattoo at AIR Lahore, started coaching both sisters in light singing. But the road to light singing passed via classical music. This way Kaur got her first exposure to the intricacies of Hindustani classical music.
When Surinder Kaur was rubbing shoulders with the elite of play back singers in Bombay, Kaur was training another of her younger sisters Narinder Kaur, who lived in New Delhi. Even Narinder Kaur got approval as a radio singer at All India Radio Delhi. Some of her gramophone records can be traced back to 1950. One was under the music direction of famous music directors Pandit Husan Lal Bhagat Ram. Most of Kaur and Narinder Kaur’s music makers were Pandit Amar Nath, Mujaddid Niazi, Kesar Singh Narula and K. Panna Lal.
