Those who cannot get out simply announce their retirement from the profession like the Pashtu singer Gulrez Tabassum who recently said that he would not sing anymore after receiving threats from the militants.

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He was afraid he would lose his heart if he was not able to sing like a woman.

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He would rear back and just sing this song and it's a very meaningful song to me, so I had to include it.

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Don't sing like me, he would urge his students.

ECONOMIST: Bhimsen Joshi

He just loved babies, and would rock Troy's children and sing, and hum the part where the bough breaks, and the baby falls.

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But next day he veered over to placate his other supporters, angrily telling Shas members that women would sing at the festive opening of his campaign on January 10th, and if that offended their religious sensibilities, they need not come.

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Unlike many stars, he hated to sing praises to the big man in the leopard-skin hat, who would rule ruinously for three decades.

ECONOMIST: Papa Wendo