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Mehendra
Kapoor
Name: Mahendra Kapoor
Birthday: January 9,
1934
Star Sign : Capricorn
First Film : Naurang
Mahendra Kapoor was born in Amritsar in January 9, 1934,
but soon moved to Mumbai. At an early age he was inspired by singer Mohammed
Rafi but soon he started learning classical music under many well known
classical singers. He created a style of his own and won the Metro Murphy
All-India singing competition, which led to his debut as a playback singer in V.
Shantaram’s Navrang in 1958, singing Aadha Hai Chandrama Raat Aadhi, under the
musical direction of C. Ramchandra [1].He sang many hit songs of yesteryears,
and the most notable ones being those for B.R. Chopra's Films (Dhool Ka Phool,
Gumrah, Waqt, Hamraaz, Dhund etc.) and for Legendary Actor/Director Manoj Kumar
(Upkaar, Purab Aur Paschim etc.)
Mahendra had a very large vocal range with a
beautiful vocal timber and was loved by all his composers and fans for the same.
He was the first Indian Playback Singer to record music in English. He sang 'Oh
Saly please Help me.. & I am Feeling Blue" both which were an amazing feat
for an Indian singer to do. He was asked by the famous "Boney M" group to sing
their songs in Hindi with Musarat from Pakistan & they recorded the EverHit
Pop Album M-3
On September 27, 2008, he died following a cardiac failure, he
is survived by his wife, three daughters and a son [3].
