Parween Sultana

She was awarded the Padma Shri (1976), Padma Bhushan (2014) by the Government of India, and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, 1998, given by Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama.

She was conferred the Padmashri in 1976, at the age of 25.

Parveen gave her first stage performance in 1962 when she was 12 and has been recording music since 1965. She has started her professional career with Abdul Majid's Assamese Film Morom Trishna. Sultana has sung for Bollywood movies such as Gadar, Kudrat, Do Boond Pani, and Pakeezah, and several other Assamese films. Recently, she sang the theme song of Vikram Bhatt's 1920. She also sang Humein Tumse Pyaar Kitna for the film Kudrat in 1981.

Begum Parveen Sultana (born 26th May 1950) is an Indian Hindustani classical singer of the Patiala Gharana.

Parveen was born in the house of famous Hazarika family of Puranigudam, a village in Nagaon, Assam, India to Ikramul Mazid and Maroofa Begum. Maroofa belongs to the Hazarika family and Ikramul Mazid whose roots were from Afghanistam was born in Daccapaty, Nagaon. Ikramul's mother was an Assamese Muslim lady from Chalchali, Puranigudam. Parveen went to one of the then finest school situated in Nagaon district of Assam, Mission High School, which was established before the famous freedom fight of 1857.