Artist of the Week: Mohammed Rafi
The artist of the week for this week is Bollywood superstar singer, Mohammed Rafi.
I first heard Mohammed Rafi on the soundtrack to the Bollywood cross-over film, Monsoon Wedding but did really discover more until watching the indie cult film "Ghost World" and loved the Bollywood music video that appears in the begining of the film. Mohammed Rafi has been the male vocalist in many soundtracks and often duets with female Bollywood superstar Asha Bhosle. I decided to commemorate the 26th anniversary of Mohammed Rafi's death by making him Culture Clash's artist of the week.
"Mohammed Rafi (December 24, 1924 - July 31, 1980) was arguably the greatest of Hindi/Urdu playback singers in Bollywood - along with Kishore Kumar and Mukesh. Rafi still remains popular in Indian Subcontinent and in many other parts of the world such as the UK, Kenya, and the West Indies, where people of Indian origin have settled. He continues to inspire new Bollywood playback singers like Sonu Nigam, Mohammed Aziz, Shabbir Kumar and Anwar.
Rafi sang many duets with Lata Mangeshkar, but he has also sung a large number of songs with Geeta Dutt and Lata's sister Asha Bhosle as well.
His songs ranged from classical numbers to patriotic songs, sad lamentations to highly romantic numbers, qawaalis to ghazals and bhajans, and from slow melancholic tunes to fast fun-filled songs.
He sung for Rajendra Kumar and Jeetendra, the tragedy heroes Dilip Kumar and Bharat Bhushan, comedian Johnny Walker, and many more. His voice personified the rebellious image of the star Shammi Kapoor and also gave expression to smaller and younger heroes like Biswajit and Joy Mukherjee. Rafi has also sung for singer-actor Kishore Kumar in a few movies like Raagini, Baaghi Shehzaada, and Shararat." - From Wikipedia.com
The movie Gumnaam, "Jaan Pehechaan Ho" on YouTube.com
posted by Steppie @ 9:51 PM
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