He also worked on very successful tracks with Laxmikant Pyarelal starting with the movie Parasmani in 1963. He won three Filmfare awards working with the legendary duo, out of his total 6 such awards. However his work with OP Nayyar and Shankar Jaikishan as music directors is considered the most noteworthy. Mohammad Rafi worked with the top artists of his times. He was a truly multilingual artist singing in Bhojpuri, Odia, Punjabi, Sindhi, Telugu, Kannada, Urdu, Gujarati, English, Dutch and Arabic Rafi has sung across all genres be it sad songs, romantic numbers, ghazals, bhajans, patriotic tracks or classical renditions. He started his singing career back in 1944 has sung more than 7,400 songs till his death in Jul 1980 He took his elementary classical music lessons from Pandit Jiwan Lal Mattoo. His singing talent was recognized by his elder brother’s friend Abdul Hameed. He was born on in Kotla Sultan a village in Amritsar Punjab. Mohammad Rafi is undoubtedly among one of the most famous singers in the Hindi playback singing industry.
