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(020) Roshan Ara Begum (Urdu: رَوشن آرا بیگم) (1917 – 6 December 1982) was a vocalist belonging to the Kirana gharana (singing style) of Hindustani classical music Born in the Indian city of Kolkata in undivided India, she died a Pakistani citizen. She was the daughter of Abdul Haq Khan, and the cousin of Ustad Abdul Karim Khan, also of the Kirana gharana.
Born in Calcutta in or around 1917 CE, Roshan Ara Begum visited Lahore during her teens to participate in musical soirées held at the residences of affluent citizens of Chun Peer in Mohalla Peer Gillaanian at Mochi Gate, Lahore, British India (now in Pakistan).[1] During her occasional visits to the city, she also broadcast songs from the then All India Radio station in Lahore and her professional name was announced as Bombaywali Roshan Ara Begum. She had acquired this popular nomenclature because she shifted to Mumbai, then known as Bombay, in the late 1930s, to live near her cousin Abdul Karim Khan, from whom she took lessons in Hindustani classical music for fifteen years