The Famous Ghazal Singer Mehdi Hasan Passed Away at 84 years!
By AKRao24
@AKRao24 (27424)
India
June 13, 2012 2:26pm CST
The famous Gazhal Singer of Pakistan, Mehdi Hasan passed away on 13th June 2012 in Pakistan. He was suffering from a chronic illness and he was 84 years when he breathed his last at the Hospital at Karachi.
The Ghazal singer Mehdi Hasan was born in India in 1927 and after the partition of India he go shifted to Pakistan where he has spent his life in singing the Ghazals to achieve the fame of ‘Ghazal King’ by general public.
Though he got shifted to Pakistan he used to visit India frequently to perform and to sing along with the famous singers of India. He has got 25 albums of Ghazals to his credit apart from numerous Pakistani Film songs. He was active singing for Pakistani Films till 1980. Thereafter because of illness this great singer stopped singing for films there.
The famous Ghazal singer Mehdi Hasan, who kept the ‘soofi’ style of singing alive, will be remembered by the music lovers for his ever green Ghazals for ever! May his great soul rest in peace!
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@lalitcarpenter (12)
• India
23 Jun 12
Like mehdi hasan, nusrat fateh ali khan was also a great sufi singer. Its he because of whom i started listening to sufi songs and ghajals. I listen to many of his great compositions like aafreen, piya re. Saanware, more sayyan etc. he really had a great voice that had some kind of divine essence into it.everytime i listen to his voice it soothes me. His knowledge of sur was brilliant.he has given outstanding songs to this world where we can relish every of his songs.one of his unbeatable composition is aafreen where if you focus on the lyrics of the composition make us feel that it has sung in the praise of god himself. Each and every stanza of the composition is beautifully sung by nusrat sahab with a urdu essence into it. And one great work of nusrat sahab that i like most is choti si umar from bandit queen. It has explained how a girl child forced to marry at ayoung age by her parents and describe her feelings. Its a heart touching song. I really admire him for his great work.
@AKRao24 (27424)
• India
28 Jul 12
That was a nice tribute to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan! People interested in music , especially Ghazals and soofi style singing can never forget this great artist! I agree with your review about the Numbers you have mentioned and I am impressed with your keen observation about the Ghazal sung by the great artist in the movie 'Bandit Queen' ! Thanks a lot for responding!
@GajaGamini (1068)
• India
14 Jun 12
nice information about Gazal singer Mehandi Hasan.
Gazals are really nice to listen because of the lyrics.
