BORN in the dusty village of Kotla Sultan Singh in Amritsar district on Christmas Eve in 1924, Mohammad Rafi was wonderstruck when he heard, at the age of 13, a radio being played in the famous Hall ...

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

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 ...

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

Mohammad Rafi is often called the “Voice of God”, a title famously bestowed on him by the renowned Bollywood director/producer Manmohan Desai. This was a testament to Manmohan Desai’s deep admiration ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rafi was born to a Punjabi family and his father was a respected figure in the village with henna dyed hair and beard ...