She first started taking music lessons from the famous singer Ustad Khwaja Ghulam Mustafa Warsi.

It was this music teacher who gave her this professional name due to her small size and young age.

She studied in PAF Shaheen School,[5] Dacca; however, she moved to Karachi, West Pakistan due to Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971.

[4] In the 1980s, Munni Begum's rise coincided with the rapid growth of a then new technology, the cassette tape.

She has two daughters, Muniba Hasnain and Minara Umer, and one son Syed Mohammad Asad Ali.