When Sultana Nooran was seven and Jyoti Nooran was five, Mir discovered their talent while they were playing at home and singing a Bulleh Shah kalam they had heard from their grandmother, "Kulli vichon ni yaar lab lai". The sisters could not even have formal elementary education. According to Mir, the family was on hard times and Mir gave music lessons to support them. The sisters trained from early childhood under their father, Ustad Gulshan Mir (or Meer), grandson of Bibi Nooran, a renowned Sufi singer, and son of Swarn Nooran, a Sufi singer of the 1970s. They received the Best Playback Singer (Female) award of the Filmfare Awards Punjabi for the song " Yaar Di Gali" in 2017. The same year they received their first major awards for the song "Patakha Guddi" in the film Highway including two Mirchi Music Awards "Upcoming Female Vocalist Of The Year" and "Vocalist (Female) Of The Year"), the Global Indian Music Academy Awards and the Screen Awards. The Nooran sisters released their first album Yaar Gariban Da in 2015. ![]() Their public recognition came in 2012 when they were featured with the song "Tung Tung" in MTV Sound Trippin of MTV India, which was adapted as a soundtrack in the 2015 Bollywood film Singh is Bling. Born to a family of Sufi musicians, they perform Sham Chaurasia gharana classical music. ![]() The Nooran Sisters are Sultana Nooran (born 14 June 1992) and Jyoti Nooran (born 24 February 1994) who are a devotional Sufi singing duo from Hoshiarpur, Punjab, India.
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