Irene Perveen also known as Irene Parveen is a Pakistani playback singer

Playback singer

A playback singer is a singer whose singing is prerecorded for use in movies. Playback singers record songs for soundtracks, and actors or actresses lip-sync the songs for cameras, while the actual singer does not appear on screen.-South Asia:...

 from the 1960s, who mainly sung for Pakistani films.
She belonged to a Christian

Christian

A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...

 family. Parveen started her career in 1958's film Noor-e-Islam. Parveen had famous duets with Masood Rana

Masood Rana

Masood Rana was a Pakistani playback singer. He began his singing career in 1962 with the film Inqalab and became one of the top male singers in both Urdu and Punjabi films for more than three decades...

 and Ahmed Rushdi

Ahmed Rushdi

Ahmed Rushdi, SI, PP was a versatile Pakistani playback singer who worked in film music and was "an important contributor to the Golden Age of Pakistani film music." Rushdi is acclaimed as one of the greatest singers ever lived in south asia and was a natural baritone, yet could sing high tenor...

. Her main reason of popularity was her pair with singer Ahmed Rushdi. She was later the wife of Cecil Samuel, a man from a prominent Peshawari family. She sang many hit songs for the films, and made much impact in the East Pakistani Industry too. She has lived in England since 1983.