Zil-e-Huma( ur, ) (26 February 1944 – 16 May 2014) was a Pakistani singer and daughter of

Noor Jehan Noor Jehan ( Punjabi: ) (born () Allah Rakhi Wasai ; 23 September 1926 – 23 December 2000; sometimes spelled Noorjehan),Ashish Rajadhyaksha and Paul Willemen, ''Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema,'' British Film Institute, Oxford University Pres ...

Early life

Born to Jehan-Rizvi family, she was the youngest daughter of Noor Jehan and

Syed Shaukat Hussain Rizvi Syed Shaukat Hussain Rizvi (1914 – 1999) was a Pakistani actor, film producer and director. He is widely considered as a pioneer of the Pakistani film industry. Early life and career Shaukat Hussain Rizvi was born in the city of Azamgarh, ...

from Noor Jehan's first marriage. Noor Jehan and Shaukat Hussain Rizvi together also had 2 older sons named Akbar Rizvi and Asghar Rizvi. Huma was born in 1944 in

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, the youngest of the three children of singer

and filmmaker

. When she was a child, her parents divorced. Her father demanded the family's studio

Shahnoor Studios The Shahnoor Studios (also spelled as Shahnur Studios) is the studio taken over by Syed Shaukat Hussain Rizvi and his first wife, Noor Jehan in the aftermath of the independence of Pakistan in 1947. The studio is one of the oldest studios in La ...

, in return for her custody in the divorce court and was given custody of the studios.

Career

Growing up with her mother in

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, singing and music became her passion but during her childhood, her mother

refused to allow her to undergo training in music. In the early 1990s, after having decided to make music her profession, she commenced formal education in music under Ghulam Mohammed, her mother's Ustad (teacher). She said in an interview, "Learning at that age wasn't an easy game but I had made up my mind to keep on learning as learning never ends". Zil-e-Huma usually used to sing her mother's super-hit film songs on

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Personal life

At an early age, she married a jeweler, Aqeel Butt, and settled down to a married life. She has four sons, Mohammad Ali Butt,

Ahmed Ali Butt Ahmad Ali Butt ( ur, ) is a Pakistani actor, television host, comedian, keyboardist, rapper, singer, and songwriter. Career Butt began his career in music, where he was a member of the alternative rock band ''Entity Paradigm Entity Paradigm ...

(lead vocalist of the Pakistani rock band E.P. and a film actor), Mustafa Ali Butt and Hamza Ali Butt. She eventually divorced her husband and decided to pursue a musical career.

Illness and death

Huma died on 16 May 2014 at a Lahore hospital from end-stage kidney disease (chronic

kidney failure Kidney failure, also known as end-stage kidney disease, is a medical condition in which the kidneys can no longer adequately filter waste products from the blood, functioning at less than 15% of normal levels. Kidney failure is classified as eit ...

) and diabetes mellitus; she was 70 years old.

References

External links

Picture of Zil-e-Huma
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