Minoo Purshottam is an Indian

playback singer A playback singer, as they are usually known in South Asian cinema, or ghost singer in Western cinema, is a singer whose performance is pre-recorded for use in films. Playback singers record songs for soundtracks, and the performers lip-sync the ...

who sang Bollywood songs, and was most popular during the 1960s and 1970s.

Career

Minoo Purshottam's career started in 1963 when she was 16. The composer Roshan offered her a singing role in the film ''

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''. The song eventually became a duet with

Suman Kalyanpur Suman Kalyanpur (born as Suman Hemmadi; 28 January 1937) is an Indian playback singer who is most notable for her work in Hindi cinema. She recorded songs for movies in several languages besides Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Assamese, Gujarati, Ka ...

Awards

Popular songs

Discography

* ''Minoo purshottam ranj mein raahat'' (1980) * ''Rehguzar Ghazals'' (1981)

References

Bollywood playback singers Indian women playback singers 1944 births Living people Women musicians from Punjab, India Singers from Punjab, India 20th-century Indian singers 20th-century Indian women singers People from Patiala {{India-singer-stub