When a boy, in 1970, he was noticed for his talent with the idiophone-style Kashmiri percussion instrument of nout (clay pot) by the local singer Mohammad Yousuf Shah who then invited him to his troup for training and work.

[5] In 2016, the posh Rawalpora (Colony) section of Srinagar, the summer capital of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, a group of young men for whom he performed filmed Shah on a mobile phone and uploaded the video to the internet.

The song which Noor Mohammad sang was "Kato chukh nudibaney walo mashiko myani" was filmed by Shah Jahan Tantray of Rawalpora.

The musician sang for them a famous elegy by a 16th-century Muslim poet and ascetic Habba Khatoon (who was also Empress Consort of the last Emperor of Kashmir).

[7] In 2018 the Kashmiri and Urdu-language poet and musician Mohammad Muneer Nazir and his band Alif, invited Shah to produce a Kashmiri-language single 'Ride Home'.