Surinder Kaur (November 25, 1929 – June 15, 2006) - One of the most popular Punjabi folk singers of the gramophone age, she was born to Sikh parents in Lahore, the capital of what was then the undivided state of Punjab. Kaur and her sister Parkash had a rigorous classical musical training under Inayat Husainand Pandit Mani Parshad. No other popular contemporary Punjabi singer, except Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (also trained in classical music), mastered the nuances of the Indian musical scale to the same extent.