Born – 4 August 1929
Died – 13 October 1987

Achievements – He was a famous Bollywood playback singer, actor, lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenwriter cum a scriptwriter. He used to be among the three leading male Bollywood playback singers along with Mukesh and Mohammed Rafi during his life time.

Born on 4 August 1929 at the Khandwa town of Central Provinces and Berar, British India that is now located in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, Kishore Kumar was a man of many talents. He was a famous Bollywood playback singer, actor, lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenwriter cum a scriptwriter. Kishore Kumar, however, was more popular as an actor during his lifetime. And his songs gained more mass appeal especially after his passing away in 1987. Today, if you are an avid Bollywood songs listener, you’ve to have a CD of Kishore Hits in your music collection.

Asha Bhosle, the golden voice of Indian music, turned 76 on September 8th. The melody queen celebrated in a quiet way albeit with release of an album of romantic songs.

A very well known Bollywood playback singer, she is as popular as her elder sister, who is also a renowned singer. Well, we are talking about Asha Bhosle, who has mesmerized the entire country with her amazing voice. She has dominated the Indian music industry for a period more than six decades. Even now, she is constantly enhancing her music collection and entertaining the people.

Asha Bhosle is a very versatile singer, who has put her heart and soul in modulating her voice to come up with something original and creative. Her voice is very adaptative. She is very well able to sing the songs for romantic situation. When naughtiness is required, she can change her voice and sing according to the situation. In this article, we will present you with the biography of Asha Bhosle.

Oscar-winning musician A R Rahman has pipped another great Ilayaraja to win the ‘Grassroot Grammy’ held in the US.
The ‘Mozart of Madras’ bagged the top prize for the soundtrack in the Tamil film Godfather in the ‘Best Indian album’ category at the ‘Just Plain Folks 2009 Music Awards’ held recently.

Bangla band ‘Krosswindz’ and Ilayaraja were among others nominated in the category.

With over 50,000 members worldwide, the ‘Just Plain Folks 2009 Music Awards’ is aimed at supporting grassroot songwriters and musicians through networking, education and promotional support.

Rahman also won the third place in the ‘Best Indian Song’ category for ‘Innisai’ (Radio Mix) from Godfather while his ‘Illamai’ was fifth in the same category.

Ilyaraja’s “Music Journey: Live in Italy” was third in the ‘Best Indian album’ category.

In ‘Indian Classical and Traditional Album’ category, Shweta Jhaveri’s “Avishkar” clinched the first position.

The awards received responses from over 163 countries

Kishore Kumar was a prolific vocalist and sang in many Indian languages including Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Assamese, Gujarati, Kannada, Bhojpuri, Malayalam and Oriya. Along with Mohammed Rafi , and Mukesh, he was one of the leading male Bollywood playback singers from the 1950s to the mid-1980s.

Kishore Kumar was born in a Bengali family in a small place known as Khandwa. This place is situated in the state of Madhya Pradesh. He was youngest among his siblings with two elder brothers and a sister (Sati Devi). Both of his elder brothers ventured into acting and established their names in a big way. The eldest one, Ashok Kumar is known for giving numerous hits. Right from his childhood, he was interested in becoming a playback singer. To follow his dreams, he too soon shifted to Mumbai and started living with his brothers.

Kishore Kumar had no formal training in music. Knowing that, it feels even more wonderful to see his repertoire. He was a great mimic and his favorite singer was K L Saigal. He always imitated Saigal with perfection. He took his own sweet time to develop his natural style of singing. He continued trying for work and also started to refine his voice. He is credited to give a style known as ‘Yodeling’ which was his signature style. Yodeling is basically an Austrian style which he perfected to the hilt and used it in his various hits. A complete natural, he kept on experimenting with new voices and often non-sensical terms in his songs.

July 31 will never be the same again for Mohd Rafi”s innumerable fans the world over. For on this day in 1980, Rafi saaheb as he was fondly called, left for ever, succumbing To a massive heart attack at age 56. And Tu kahin aas paas Hai dost from Aas Paas became the last recorded song of the Singing legend.

Its 29 years since Rafi died but his songs are as fresh as the morning flower. He continues to live in the hearts and souls of music lovers.

On july 31st (Friday) hundreds of his fans from many parts of The country and abroad as well will visit the juhu garden mosque from morning onwards – the Burial ground of MOHD RAFI to pay homage and seek his blessings.