Sunday, October 17, 2010
mohemmad rafi history
orn - 24
December
1924
Died - 31
July 1980
Achievements - Mohammed Rafi was among the
most popular male playback singers in the
Indian Bollywood film industry. Mohammed Rafi
has sung a number of famous songs like Mere
sapnon ki rani, Roohi Roohi with K. L. Saigal for
the movie Shahjahan made in 1946, Tera Khilona
Toota Balak for film Anmol Ghadi, Yahan Badla
Wafa for Jugnu and so on.
Mohammed Rafi was among the most popular
male playback singers in the Indian Bollywood
film industry. Though he used to sing in various
Indian languages such as Hindi, Marathi and
Telugu, Mohammed Rafi is primarily
remembered by people for all the melodious
songs he sang for the Hindi movies. Rafi was
born on 24 December 1924 at Kotla Sultanpur,
which is a town near Amritsar in undivided
region of Punjab. Mohammed Rafi was the son of
Hajji Ali Mohammad and was the youngest of his
five brothers.
Read on to know more about the biography of
Mohammed Rafi, whose nickname used to be
Pheeko. Mohammed Rafi's interest in singing
began by mimicking the chants of fakirs in his
village. Mohammed Rafi's elder brother-in-law,
Mohammed Hameed was aware of his interest in
music. And it was he who encouraged Rafi to
take it up seriously. As such, Rafi started learning
Hindustani classical music from Ustad Bade
Ghulam Ali Khan, Ustad Abdul Wahid Khan,
Pandit Jiwanlal Matto and Firoze Nizami.
One day, it so happened that Mohammed Rafi
and Hameed, his brother-in-law went to attend a
programme of the legendary Bollywood singer-
actor, K. L. Saigal. But there was a power failure
at the venue of the programme and Saigal
simply refused to sing because of this. Hameed
seized this opportunity to ask the organizer if
Rafi could sing in Saigal's place to pacify the
audience. And this became Mohammed Rafi's
first performance at the tender age of just 13.
Here's more information about the life history of
Mohammed Rafi.
It was in the year 1942 that Mohammed Rafi got
his first break as playback singer in a Punjabi
film, Gul Baloch. This happened because Rafi had
got noticed by Bollywood lyricist, Shyam Sunder
by then, who gave him an opportunity to sing a
duet with Zeenat Begum. And this was followed
by an invitation to Mohammed Rafi by the
Lahore radio station that offered him a chance to
work with them as a permanent singer. Rafi then
shifted to Mumbai city in the year in 1944.
Once in Mumbai, Rafi was introduced to some
leading film producers such as Abdul Rashid
Kardar, Mehboob Khan and actor-director Nazeer
by Tanvir Naqvi. This was the beginning of his
lustrous career as playback singer in Indian film
industry. Mohammed Rafi has sung a number of
famous songs like Mere sapnon ki rani, Roohi
Roohi with K. L. Saigal for the movie Shahjahan
made in 1946, Tera Khilona Toota Balak for film
Anmol Ghadi, Yahan Badla Wafa for Jugnu and so
on.
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