Singer Prabha

When she started her career, she found herself being "taken in more as a prop", however subsequently the trend of female qawwals became popular. Later filmi qawwali in Bollywood started depicting the battle of sexes, wherein male and female qawwal competed against each other. Born in a Hindu family, she was a sought after singer in Sufi circles, and performed at commercial as well as private venues and shrines. At the peak of her career in the 1970s and 1980s, he was a leading qawwal in states of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and large cities. She won many qawwali competitions against male qawwals, including Ustad Chhote Ussaf, Nazir Bharati, Afzal Iqbal, and Imam Khan. She even organized concerts to raise funds for Indian Army soldiers during the 1971 Indo-Pak War.