Zile Huma

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Zile Huma (Urdu: ظل ہما) was the daughter of Melody Queen Madam Noor Jehan and the only of her four daughters to follow in her mother's steps. Today, she is a popular Pakistani pop singer.

Zile Huma was born into a filmi and musical family in Pre-Partition India as the youngest of the three children of famed singer/actress Madam Noor Jehan and filmmaker Syed Shaukat Hussain Rizvi. As a child, she immigrated to the newly-created Pakistan with her parents and two elder brothers. Her mother loved her very much and raised her and her elder brothers with much affection and she provided them with all the comforts in life. When she was very young, her parents were divorced. Her father, Syed Shaukat Hussain Rizvi demanded the family's studio, Shahnoor Studios in return for Zile Huma's custody. Her mother gladly signed the property papers to get her daughter back. Growing up in Pakistan, singing and music became her passion but during her childhood, her mother did not let her get training in music. At an early age, she married jeweler Aqeel Butt and settled down for a married life with her husband. The marriage produced four sons, two of which can be named. They are Ahmed Ali Butt, lead vocalist of the Pakistani rock band E.P. and Hamza Ali Butt, a fast upcoming name in the Pakistani film industry. Now, due to raising her children, she could not pursue her passion for music. Unfortunately, she had a stormy married life and her marriage hit the rocks. It was the solitude that rekindled her desire and music became her companion. She soon divorced her husband and decided to pursue a musical career. In the early 1990s, after having fully decided to take up music as a profession, she started formal education in music under Ustad Ghulam Mohammed whom was also her mother's Ustad. She said in an interview, Learning at that age wasn't easy game but I had made up my mind to keep on learning as learning never ends. Today, she is a popular Pakistani pop singer and had earlier released an album paying tribute to her late mother.