Famous singer Amjad Pervaiz passes away

Lahore: Famous Pakistani singer Dr. Amjad Pervaiz has passed away.

According to the family, 79-year-old Amjad Pervaiz was a kidney patient and was sick for a month.

The family members said that the funeral prayer of Amjad Pervaiz will be performed on Monday, March 4, after the noon prayer at Main Boulevard Mosque Shadman, Lahore.

Chief Minister Punjab Maryam Nawaz Sharif has expressed her condolences on the death of singer Amjad Pervaiz.

Maryam Nawaz said that Amjad Pervaiz's services in art and music will be remembered.

The singer was an engineer by profession and did PhD. Amjad was born on the Fleming Road, Lahore in 1945. His father was a chemistry professor at the Islamia College Lahore where his maternal grandfather had also performed duty as principal before Pakistan’s independence.

He completed his primary education at Kinnaird Girls School along with his elder sisters. Amjad Pervaiz did matric from the Central Model School in 1960, intermediate from Government College Lahore and got graduated in mechanical engineering from University of Engineering and Technology (UET) in 1967. He went to University of Birmingham to do PhD.

He joined Radio Pakistan, Lahore station, as a child artiste in 1954 and started singing. Later, Ustad Salamat Ali and others trained him for singing.