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[[श्रेणी:1954 में जन्मे लोग]]
{{For|the daughter of Mughal emperor [[Shah Jahan]]|Roshanara Begum}}
{{Use Pakistani English|date=April 2019}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2015}}
{{Infobox person
| pre-nominals = Mallika-e-Mauseeqi
| name = Roshan Ara Begum
|birth_name= Waheed-un-Nisa
| post-nominals = [[Sitara-e-Imtiaz|SI]] [[Pride of Performance|PP]]
| birth_date = 1917
| birth_place = [[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]
| death_date = December 6, 1982
| death_place = [[Pakistan]]
| occupation = Classical singer, vocalist
| years_active = 1938-1982
| style = [[Thumri]], [[Khayal]], [[Ghazal]]
| television = PTV [[Pakistani television]]
| title = Mallika-e-Mauseeqi (Queen of Music)
| spouse = Chaudhry Ahmed Khan
| father = Abdul Haqq Khan
| relatives = <nowiki>Abdul Karim Khan</nowiki>
| honours = [[Pride of Performance]]<br/> [[Sitara-e-Imtiaz]] (Star of Excellence) Award
}}
'''Roshan Ara Begum''' ({{lang-ur|رَوشن آرا بیگم}}) (1917 – 5 December 1982) was a [[Pakistani classical music|Pakistani classical]] vocalist. As the daughter of Abdul Haqq Khan, Roshan Ara is linked through her cousin [[Abdul Karim Khan]] to the [[Kirana gharana]] (singing style) of classical music.
== Career ==
Possessing a rich, mature and mellifluous voice that could easily lend itself to a wide range of intricate classical music pieces, her singing features a full-throated voice, short and delicate passages of ''[[Svara|sur]]'', lyricism, romantic appeal and swift ''[[Taan (music)|taans]]''. All these flourishes were combined in her unique style that reached its peak from 1945 to 1982. Her vigorous style of singing was interspersed with bold strokes and ''layakari''. She had control over a wide range of ragas. Melody was considered the most important feature of her singing.<ref name="culture"/>
Migrating to [[Pakistan]] in 1948 after the [[partition of India]], Roshan Ara Begum and her husband settled in [[Lalamusa]], a small town in [[Punjab, Pakistan]] from which her husband hailed. Although far away from [[Lahore]], the cultural centre of Pakistan, she would travel back and forth to participate in music, radio and television programmes.<ref name="culture"/>
A widely-respected classical music patron of Pakistan, [[Hayat Ahmad Khan]] approached her and convinced her to become one of the founding members of [[All Pakistan Music Conference]] in 1959. To promote classical music, this organization continues to hold annual music festivals in different cities of Pakistan even today.
Even though she was called "Malika-e-Mauseeqi" (Queen of Music) in Pakistan, she was widely considered to be a humble, sincere and a remarkably simple person.<ref name="culture"/> She would wake up early in the morning and start her 'riyaz' (musical practice) after her morning religious prayers. She decided to adopt a boy and a girl since she herself remained childless.<ref name="culture"/><ref name=DailyTimes/>
Roshan Ara Begum also sang some film songs, mostly under music composers like [[Anil Biswas (composer)|Anil Biswas]], ''Feroze Nizami'' and ''Tassaduq Hussain'', for films such as ''Pehali Nazar (1945)'', [[Jugnu]] (1947), ''Qismat (1956)'', ''Roopmati Baazbahadur (1960)'' and [[Neela Parbat]] (1969).<ref name=last.fm>[http://www.last.fm/music/Roshan+Ara+Begum Top tracks of Roshan Ara Begum] last.fm website, Retrieved 29 April 2019</ref>
Noted Pakistani classical musicians [[Bade Fateh Ali Khan]], [[Amanat Ali Khan]] of [[Patiala gharana]] and [[Sham Chaurasia gharana|Ustad Salamat Ali Khan]] of [[Sham Chaurasia gharana]] used to listen to her recordings for their own enjoyment.<ref name="culture"/>
==Awards and recognition==
She died in [[Pakistan]] on 6 December 1982 at the approximate age of sixty-five. Roshan Ara Begum received the [[Sitara-e-Imtiaz]] Award or (Star of Excellence) Award and the [[Pride of Performance]] Award in 1960 from the [[President of Pakistan]], and was the first female vocalist to be awarded the Sitara-e-Imtiaz.<ref name="culture"/>
{{मुगल बादशाह [[शाहजहाँ]] की बेटी | रोशनारा बेगम}}
{{पाकिस्तानी अंग्रेजी का प्रयोग करें। तारीख = अप्रैल २०१ ९}}
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