parvez says he has had a passion for music since his childhood. he began his career as a child artist in 1954 at radio pakistan, lahore in the children's' programme 'honhaar' before appearing on 'khatir-e-ehbaab' in the sixties. he trained in classical singing from the ustads of sham chaurasia gharana such as ustad nazakat ali khan-ustad salamat ali khan duo (became their pupil in 1976), ustad ghulam shabbir khan-ustad ghulam jaffar khan duo (1992), and music composers akhtar hussain akhian and veteran music composer mian sheheryaar. he is a practising singer at the central production unit, radio pakistan, where he has recorded hundreds of ghazals, geets, and other songs since the 1970s in his monthly performances. for the past two decades, he has performed a raag for the programme "ahang-e-khusrovi" every month and has rendered more than fifty raags in khayal form. parvez performs both light, semi-classical music and classical music songs.