Ahmed Rushdi was born in Hyderabad Deccan in April 24, 1934 – April 11, 1983. He was a versatile Pakistani playback singer who worked in film music and was “an important contributor to the Golden Age of Pakistani film music.” Ahmed Rushdi is acclaimed as one of the greatest singers ever lived in south Asia and was a natural baritone, yet could sing high tenor notes with ease. He migrated to Pakistan and became a leading singer in the Pakistan film industry. He is considered to be one of the most versatile vocalists of the subcontinent and was capable of singing variety of songs. He is also considered to be the first regular pop singer of south Asia and credited as having sung the “first-ever South Asian” pop song, “Ko-Ko-Ko-reena.”

In 1954, he recorded the official National anthem of Pakistan with several other singers. Ahmed Rushdi has recorded the highest number of film songs in the history of Pakistani cinema in Urdu, English, Punjabi, Bengali, Sindhi and Gujarati languages. He died of a heart attack at the age of 48, after recording approximately five thousand film songs for 583 released films. Besides popular music. Ahmed Rushdi also helped popularize the ghazals of Naseer Turabi.