Nayyara Noor is one of the most popular and richest Singer who was born on November 3, 1950 in Guwahati, Assam, India. As of June 1, 2023, Nayyara Noor has a net worth approximately $5 Million.

Nayyara Noor was born in 1950 in Guwahati, Assam, northeastern India, and spent her early childhood there. Her family and ancestors, belonging to a merchant class, were long settled in Assam having migrated from Amritsar, in Punjab. Her father was an active member of the All-India Muslim League, and had hosted Pakistan’s founding father Muhammad Ali Jinnah during his trip to Assam before the partition in 1947. In 1957 or 1958, Noor with her mother and siblings migrated from India to Pakistan, settling in Karachi. However, her father stayed back in Assam until 1993 to look after the family’s immovable properties. As a child, Nayyara is said to have been inspired by the bhajans of Kanan Devi and Kamla as well as the ghazals and thumris of Begum Akhtar.

Although Nayyara had no formal musical background nor formal training, she was discovered by Professor Israr at the Islamia College in Lahore after hearing her sing for her friends and teachers at an annual dinner at the National College of Arts in Lahore in 1968. Soon thereafter, she was asked to sing for the university’s Radio Pakistan programs.