Salim Raza was a super star playback singer, who dominated Pakistani Urdu film music from the mid 50s to the mid 60s. He was born in Lahore in a Christian family and his first film as playback singer was Qatil in 1955. He got breakthrough from his all time super hit song "Yaaro mujhe muaaf rakho, main nashey mein hoon..." (Saat Laakh - 1957)
He sung many other super hit songs in many big films like Aas Paas, Do Rastey, Haboo, Hamsafar, Seema and many more (See the list to the right). His last big film was Pail ki jhankar in 1966.
Salim Raza died in 1983 in Canada.
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