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Dil Kya Kare (Lyric Video)
Kishore Kumar
Gori Teri Jawani Pe (Lyric Video)
Kalyanji-Anandji & Kishore Kumar
Maine Dil Diya (Lyric Video)
R.D. Burman, Lata Mangeshkar & Kishore Kumar
Hum Bewafa (Lyric Video)
Kishore Kumar
Tere Meri Prem Kahani (From "Pighalta Aasman")
Kalyanji-Anandji, Kishore Kumar & Alka Yagnik
All Your Duty (Tamil Lyric Video [From "Goli Soda"])
S.N. Arunagiri & Gana Bala
Jani Jekhanei Thako (Lofi)
Sanaï, Mrinal Bandopadhyay, Kishore Kumar & Anupama Deshpande
Ei To Jiban (Lofi)
Saptak Das, Ajoy Das & Kishore Kumar
Momo Chithe (feat. Navin Iyer, Kishore Kumar & Raghavsimhan)
Vedant Bhardwaj
Aaj Jaane Ki Zid Na Karo (feat. Raghavsimhan, Kishore Kumar & Navin Iyer)
Vedant Bhardwaj
About Kishore Kumar
Artist Biography
Kishore Kumar wore many hats over his storied career in Bollywood: actor, producer, lyricist, composer. But what he’s most remembered for is his versatile, richly hued voice, which he lent to some of the most iconic Indian film songs of the 20th century. A self-taught singer, Kumar’s early work—singing mostly for himself in his acting roles and, intermittently, for Dev Anand—imitated the nasal twang of his idol K. L. Saigal. But over time, he developed a unique, full-throated singing style that incorporated the yodelling of country icons Jimmie Rodgers and Tex Morton. In comparison to his Hindustani classical-indebted peers, Kumar’s voice had a youthful vitality, which he deployed to great effect on songs like “Jeevan Ke Safar Mein Raahi” (1951) and the playful “Ek Ladki Bheegi Bhagi Si” (1958). He had a string of hits in the 1950s and 1960s, but it was his singing on the 1969 super-hit film Aradhana—with music composed by S.D. Burman, one of Kumar’s biggest champions—that catapulted him to Bollywood music royalty. He overtook Mohammed Rafi as the country’s most popular playback singer, a title he held onto for almost two decades till his death in 1987. Kumar and composer R.D. Burman formed a formidable team, dominating the Indian film music scene with ebullient, jaunty love songs (“Yeh Sham Mastani”, “Ye Jawani Hai Diwani”), soulful ballads (“Aaj Kahin Na Ja”, “Bahut Door Mujhe Chale Jana Hai”) and tunes dripping with pathos (“Hume Aur Jeene Ki Chahat Na Hoti”). His voice helped define the careers of many Bollywood superstars, including Dev Anand, Rajesh Khanna, Jeetendra and Amitabh Bachchan. One of Bollywood’s most endearing mavericks—he famously butted heads with Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi during the Indian Emergency, leading to a temporary unofficial ban from state radio channels—Kumar’s legacy lives on in the generations of younger singers he’s inspired and the evergreen popularity of his songs.
Hometown
Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, India
Genre
Bollywood
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