- One of the first playback singers in the Hindi film industry.
- She made her debut on a radio station in Lahore in December 1937.Radio Lahore had begun broadcasting on December 16,1937. Shamshad Begum was one of the first playback singers there.
- She was one of the first "playback singers". Her voice was pre-recorded for use in films in which actresses would lip-sync to her songs.
- She sang in the Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, and Punjabi languages.
- Her ambition to be a singer was opposed by her family. When she finally won a contract with a recording company, her father agreed to let her sing on the condition that she would record wearing a burka and not allow herself to be photographed.
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