Famous Pakistani singer Abida Parveen has been admitted to a hospital in Indian capital New Delhi due to cardiac problem.
Media reports said on Monday that Parveen, known for Sufi music, would undergo angioplasty in the hospital.
She is a singer of Sindhi descent and one of the foremost exponents of Sufi music (Sufiana kalaam).
She sings mainly ghazals, Urdu love songs, and her forte, Kafi , a solo genre accompanied by percussion and harmonium, using a repertoire of songs by Sufi poets.
Parveen sings in Urdu, Sindhi, Seraiki, Punjabi and Persian, and together with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is considered one of the finest Sufi vocalists of the modern era.
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