BORN in the dusty village of Kotla Sultan Singh in Amritsar district on Christmas Eve in 1924, Mohammad Rafi was wonderstruck ...

Saifullah Cholakkal celebrates Mohammed Rafi's legacy, owning nearly 5,000 songs and cherishing a lifelong musical devotion.

Subhash K Jha refltects on the incredible career of one of film’s greatest singers, Rafi, and reveals his choices for the ...

Forty four years after Mohammed Rafi's untimely demise on July 31, 1980, at the young age of 55, the singer's work continues to enjoy a musical afterlife on radio, television and modern streaming ...

It’s been 44 years since his death in 1980 yet Rafi’s songs are just as popular and most frequently heard over the Vividh Bharati Service of Akashvani Mumbai and All India Radio’s Urdu Service from ...

Mohammad Rafi, one of the greatest singers of Hindi cinema, celebrated his birthday every year on 24th December. The singer, who has been inspiring generations of singers and music lovers, gave his ...

The 100th birth anniversary of legendary singer Mohammad Rafi went unnoticed in his native village of Kotla Sultan Singh near Amritsar. Despite modest memorials and an auditorium, villagers urge the ...

One of the greatest film playback singers of the subcontinent, Mohammed Rafi (24 December, 1924-31 July, 1980) had spent his childhood in Lahore. He was fond of singing since the beginning, which was ...

Growing up in Calcutta in the 1970s and 80s, it was difficult to avoid the Rafi-Kishore binary. The animosity between the two camps was as potent as between supporters of Mohun Bagan and East Bengal, ...

Dilip Kumar, in his memoir The Substance and the Shadow (2014), recalls an incident from 1962, soon after the conflict at the Indo-China border, where he and Mohd Rafi were present to entertain the ...

Mohammed Rafi remains the gold standard in the world of playback singing. Legendary Bollywood producer/director Manmohan Desai once called him the “Voice of God” — a testament to Rafi’s unparallelled ...