Noor Zehra

Noor Zehra
Birth nameNoor Zehra Kazim
GenresHindustani classical music, North Indian classical music
Occupation(s)Sagar Veena maestro, composer
InstrumentSagar Veena
Years active1970–present
Member ofNoori, Strings, Coke Studio

Noor Zehra Kazim is a Pakistani musician and Sagar Veena player. She is the daughter of lawyer and activist Raza Kazim who invented Sagar Veena - a stringed instrument similar to Vichitra veena and Chitra Veena. Together with her father she runs Sanjan Nagar Institute of Philosophy and Arts, and is the only performer of Sagar Veena since its creation in 1971. With a career spanned over four decades, she has performed both domestically and internationally, achieving critical appraisal for instrument, as well as her Indian style of music being a non-Indian.

She made her Coke Studio debut in season 3 and returned in season 9, as a part of team Noori. She is the mother of Noori's lead vocalist Ali Noor and guitarist Ali Hamza.

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