Abida Parveen

"Parveen could sing a shopping list and have an audience weeping.”
- BBC

“Be it the music critic or the layman, who loves music, all believes that Begum Abida Parveen is unarguably one of the finest voices in the Orient and the queen of mystical singing. Her passionate, robust voice spans three octaves and her powerful renditions of devotional music, her fervid and inspirational singing is an experience not to be missed.”
- Economic Times of India

"The exceptional quality of Abida’s performance is that she herself enjoys her performance immensely and when an artist reaches that level, it is simply impossible for the audience not to enjoy the performance.”
– Arshad Mahmud (Eminent composer of Pakistan)

"When she sings it’s as if she’s commanding the universe”
- The Evening Standard – London