MOHD RAFI SINGS FOR RAJ KAPOOR

Thursday, October 1, 2009

MOHD RAFI SINGS FOR RAJ KAPOOR!

Mohd Rafi (December 24, 1924 - July 31, 1980), was an Indian playback singer whose career spanned four decades.

Rafi was a versatile singer of Indian cinema and sang in many Indian languages including Hindi, Urdu, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Bengali, Marathi, Sindhi, Kannada, Gujarati and Telugu.He was one of the leading male singers in the Hindi film music industry from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Listen to Mohd. Rafi's great Bhajans, Comedy, fun songs, Qawalis, Bhangras, Desh Bhakti Songs (Indian Patriotic Songs) .

Rafi gave his voice to almost all the Actors and Comedians of bollywood including Kishore Kumar during his singing carreer.

In Bollywood, yodeling is generally associated with Kishore Kumar but Rafi introduced yodeling in Indian film as playback singing. Rafi yodeled in some of his old songs, such as "Hello sweety seventeen" (duet with Asha Bhosle), "O Chale ho kaha", "Dilke Aine main", and "Unse Rippy Tippy Ho gayee" (duet with Geeta Dutt).

No body on earth can match his golden voice style and range even today.
HERE R FEW SONG BY RAFI FOR ACTOR 'RAJ KAPOOR'

FILM: DO USTAD *ing RAJ KAPOOR, MADHUBALA, SHEIKH MUKHTAR

MUSIC: OP NAYYAR

FILM: DO USTAD *ing RAJ KAPOOR, MADHUBALA, SHEIKH MUKHTAR

MUSIC: OP NAYYAR

film: DO USTAD. (1959) *ing. RAJ KAPOOR, MADHU BALA

music: O P NAYYAR.

film: AMBAR singer: MOHD RAFI & LATA.
*ing. RAJ KAPOOR, NARGIS

MOHD RAFI

Mohd. Rafi was the best singer in the world he was known as the man with the golden voice nobody on earth can match his voice even today.
He sang for almost every gr8 actors, comedians of his time incld. Kishore Kumar.
Rafi was born on 24th December 1924 in Kotla Sultan Singh, Amritsar, in a middle class Muslim family. His elder brother, Janab Hamid Sahab, was the first to take notice of the divine gift in Rafi’s voice. He decided to concentrate all his efforts in providing all the support needed by his brother to make it big in the music world.
At the age of seven, Rafi learnt Hindustani Classical music under the renowned Ustaad Bade Gulam Ali Khan and Vahida Khan.
Mohd Rafi has sung more than 26,000 superhit songs.

Mohd Rafi started his career at the age of 20, with a punjabi song, Soniye Hiriye, teri yaad ne bahut sataya for the movie Gul Baloch, which was released on 28th February, 1944. The producer was Sham Sunderji, who was very much impressed by Rafi’s style of singing and did not think twice on booking Rafi for all his future films.
In 1944, Rafi was very famous as a singer. Many of his songs were sung by youths and school-going kids. Rafi was invited by Nasir, a well-known actor of those times to Bombay. From this point, there was no turning back. Rafi sang for Shamji Sundarji’s production Gaon Ki Gori. This movie was also a great hit. With this hit, Rafi was called Play Back

When Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated, Rafi sang a song Suno Suno Ay Duniya Walon, Bapu ki Yeh Amar kahani written by Rajinder Krishan and music by Hunslal Bhagatram, which touched everyone and was a great hit.

Thursday, October 1, 2009