Musarrat Nazir is a Pakistani singer and actress who sang and acted in many Urdu and Punjabi films. She also sang solo, mostly wedding and folk songs. She was born to a middle-class family on 13 October 1940. Her parents were of Punjabi origin from Lahore. Her father Nazir Ahmed, worked for the municipal corporation as a registered contractor at the time of her birth.

Biography

Musarrat married psychiatrist, Dr. Arshad Majeed in 1963 and both of them settled in Canada in the mid 1960s.

Early in her life,despite their meager resources, Musarrat's parents wanted her to be a doctor. They provided her with the best possible education they could afford. Musarrat passed the matriculation examination with distinction. Two years later, she passed the intermediate examination from Kinnaird College in Lahore.

Musarrat lives with her husband in Toronto, Canada. She has three children, Zeelaf, Azed and Omar Majeed all of whom are married and all have children of their own named Amir, Ismail, Rahim, and Sufjan. Musarrat has an outgoing personality and enjoys a good laugh. Even after she retired from cinema,many years ago, she continued to sing for Pakistan Television (PTV) until recently. Musarrat also loves to cook. She mostly cooks curries, dahi barray, and pasta and meatballs.