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'''Prabha Bharti''' (died 2000s) was a noted [[India]]n [[qawaali]] and [[ghazal]] singer of the 1960s to the 1990s. She was one of the first women [[qawwali]]-singer ([[qawwal]]) of [[India]], a form of [[Sufi]] [[devotional music]] traditionally a reserve of male singers.<ref name="express08">{{Cite web | title = Different pitch|author=Alokparna Das| url = http://expressindia.indianexpress.com/latest-news/different-pitch/398095/ | publisher =Indian Express | date =Dec 14, 2008 | accessdate = 4 July 2013 }}</ref><ref name="tribune">{{Cite web | title = Qawwali struggling to retain form|author=Deepika Vij | url = http://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20000303/art-trib.htm#1 | work =The Tribune | date =March 3, 2000 | accessdate = 4 July 2013 }}</ref> She is known for her album, "Rang-e-Qawwali" (1978), which features qawaalis, "Chhaap Tilak" and "Mai Ni Mai",<ref>{{cite web |title=Range Qawwali (1978) |url=http://delhipubliclibrary.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=46735&shelfbrowse_itemnumber=191630 |date= |publisher=Delhi Public Library |accessdate=July 5, 2013}}</ref> besides album, "Prabha Bharti Ghazal & Qawali" with music by Kesar Singh Narula released by [[Gramophone Company of India]] (HMV-EMI).<ref>{{cite web |title=Prabha Bharti Ghazal & Qawali - Bollywood Ost Lp - Kesar Singh Narula|url=http://www.ebay.com/itm/PRABHA-BHARTI-GHAZAL-QAWALI-BOLLYWOOD-OST-LP-KESAR-SINGH-NARULA-/271153194882?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f21fd6782 |date= |publisher= |accessdate=July 4, 2013}}</ref>

==Career==
When she started her career, she found herself being "taken in more as a prop", however subsequently the trend of female qawwals became popular. Later [[filmi qawwali]] in Bollywood started depicting the battle of sexes, wherein male and female qawwal competed against each other.<ref name="tribune"/> Born in a [[Hindu]] family, she was a sought after singer in Sufi circles, and performed at commercial as well as private venues and shrines.<ref name="Pemberton2010">{{cite book|author=Kelly Pemberton|title=Women mystics and sufi shrines in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bVEqAQAAMAAJ|page=115|accessdate=5 July 2013|date=31 July 2010|publisher=University of South Carolina Press|isbn=978-1-57003-919-5}}</ref>

At the peak of her career in the 1970s and 1980s, he was a leading qawwal in states of [[Delhi]], [[Uttar Pradesh]] and large cities. She won many qawwali competitions against male qawwals, including Ustad Chhote Ussaf, Nazir Bharati, Afzal Iqbal, and Imam Khan.<ref name="KauraCour1976"/> She even organized concerts to raise funds for Indian Army soldiers during the [[1971 Indo-Pak War]].<ref name="KauraCour1976">{{cite book|author1=Ajīta Kaura|author2=Arpana Cour|title=Directory of Indian Women Today, 1976|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PAkuAAAAYAAJ|accessdate=5 July 2013|year=1976|page=534|publisher=India International Publications}}</ref><ref>{{citation|title=Sainik Samachar: The Pictorial Weekly of the Armed Forces|page=20|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x-zeAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=5 July 2013|year=1993}}</ref> In 1980, as a part of Indian Republic day celebrations, the Indian Council for Public Relation sponsored a series of her performances along with her "party" (group) in Middle-Eastern countries like [[Dubai]], [[Kuwait]], [[Damascus]], [[Abu Dhabi]] and [[Muscat, Oman|Muscat]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Cultural News from India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H8E5AQAAIAAJ|accessdate=5 July 2013|page=78|year=1980|publisher=Indian Council for Public Relations.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Indian and Foreign Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v7vRAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=5 July 2013|page=29|year=1980|publisher=Publications Division of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India}}</ref>

She was also performed a few song as a Bollywood playback singer, she flourished during the 1970s and 1980s and remained active till the 1990s. She lived in [[Andheri]], [[Mumbai]], and died in the late 2000s.<ref name="thehindu11">{{Cite news | title = Song and struggle| url = http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/song-and-struggle/article1510780.ece | work =The Hindu | date =March 5, 2011|quote=.. passed away a few years back. (2011) | accessdate = 4 July 2013 | last1 = Tripathi | first1 = Shailaja }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Rubeena Film Directory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N-lkAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=5 July 2013|year=2002|publisher=Rubeena Collection}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{Allmusic |class=artist|id=mn0002016784}}
*{{IMDb name|2847172}}

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