Abida Parveen

Abida Parveen (folk singer)
Parveen performing in Coke Studio in 2010
Background information
Birth name	Abida Parveen
Also known as	Queen of Sufi music
Origin	Larkana, Sindh, Pakistan
Genres	Kafi Ghazal Qawwali
Occupation(s)	Singer musician entrepreneur
Instruments	Vocals Harmonium Percussions
Years active	1973–Present
Associated acts	Coke Studio, Jahan-e-Khusrau, Bulleh Shah, Mobilink, Telenor, Alfllah

Abida Parveen (Sindhi|عابده پروين, born 1954) is a prominent Pakistani Sufi singer often dubbed as the '"Queen of Sufi music".

Born and raised in Larkana into a Sindhi Sufi family, she was trained by her father Ghulam Haider. Parveen started performing in early 1970s and came into global prominence in the 1990s. Since 1993, Parveen has toured globally, performing her first international concert at Buena Park, California. Parveen also features in Pakistan's popular musical show Coke Studio and was a judge on the pan-South Asia contest show Sur Kshetra.

Parveen is referred as one of the world's greatest mystic singers. She sings mainly ghazals and her forte, Kafis, a solo genre accompanied by percussion and harmonium, using a repertoire of songs by Sufi poets. Parveen sings in Urdu, Sindhi, Saraiki, Punjabi and Persian.