- Zarina Baloch
Zarina Baloch ( _sd. زرينه بلوچ) (born
December 29 1934 in Allahdad Chand Village, Hyderabad,Sindh ,Pakistan — diedOctober 25 2005 inKarachi ) was a Pakistanifolk music singer andcomposer . She was also anactress ,writer ,teacher , political andsocial worker .Early life & Family
Zarina Baloch's mother, Gulroz, died in
1940 when Zarina was six years old. At the age of 15 her family arranged her marriage with a distant cousin. The union yielded two children:Akhter Baloch a.k.a. Zeena (born in 1952), and Asalm Parvez (born in 1957). However, Baloch and her husband disagreed on the subject of herfurther education and the pair were separated1958 . Baloch joined Radio Hyderabad in 1960 and received her first Music Award in 1961. Her second marriage, to leading Sindhi intellectual Rasool Bux Palijo, took place in Hyderabad on September 22, 1964. In 1967, she became a teacher at the Model School Sindh University. She retired in 1997, and died in 2005 of Brain Cancer inLiaquat National Hospital . [http://www.atsindh.com/jjzb/biography.html] .Imprisonment & Political Activism
In
1979 , Baloch was arrested and imprisoned inSukkur and Karachi Jails for leading the protests against [President of Pakistan] |Presisent] General Zia ul Haq's Martial Law. Because of her struggle against theruling class es and againstgender discrimination ,feudalism and martial laws, she earned the title of JeeJee (mother) of the Sindh people. She was one of the leading founders of Sindhiani Tahreek, Women in Action Forum, Sindhi Adabi Sangat and Sindhi Haree Committee. She was fluent inUrdu ,Seraiki ,Balochi ,Persian ,Arabic andGujrati . [http://www.atsindh.com/jjzb/biography.html] .Awards
Her recognitions include: the Shah Latif Award, the
Waheed Murad Award, the Shah Sachal Sami Award, the Lal Shahbaz Award, the Sachal Award, the SGA Award, the SANA Award, the WSC Award, the Ram Panjwani Award, the PTV Award, the Sindhi Sadaeen Gad Award, theFaiz Ahmed Faiz Award and thePride of Performance Award.Art & Literary Contributions
She made revolutionary and nationalist songs and poetry popular in Sindh and Balochistan. She was the author of several stories and poems,, and her Book "Tunhinjee Gola Tunhinjoon Galhion" was published in 1992.
ee also
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List of Sindhi singers
*Rasul Bux Palejo
*Sassui Palijo External links
* http://www.atsindh.com/jjzb/index.html
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