Shabbir Kumar

Infobox Musical artist
Name = Shabbir Kumar


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Born = Vadodara
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Genre = Playback singing
Occupation = Singer
Years_active = 1982–present
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Shabbir Kumar is an Indian singer. He was a leading Bollywood playback singer in 1980s.

Biography

Shabbir Kumar started his music career with the stage show "Ek Shaam Rafi Ke Naam", a tribute to Mohammed Rafi. Shabbir claims that when he attended Rafi's funeral in 1980, his pen fell into Rafi's open grave. He interpreted the incident as a divine message that he was to be Rafi's successor. [cite web
url=http://www.desiest.com/music/singer.jsp?id=711
title=Singer : Shabbir Kumar
accessdate=2007-07-06] Shabbir Kumar tried for a break in the Bollywood films, among other Rafi-inspired singers such as Anwar and Mohammed Aziz.

Music director Usha Khanna gave Shabbir Kumar a break in the film "Tajurba" (1981). Shabbir got a major break, when the director Manmohan Desai, who was looking for a Rafi substitute, noticed him recommended him to music director duo Laxmikant-Pyarelal (L-P). Within a few days, L-P gave Shabbir Kumar songs in the film "Coolie", which was released in 1983. Shabbir's first relased film with L-P was "Main Intequam Loonga".

Shabbir Kumar was first noted for a duet with Lata Mangeshkar, "Shaam Hai Ye Kuch Khoyi Khoyi" from "Prem Tapasya" (1983). Music director Anu Malik got him to sing for Rajeev Kapoor in his debut film "Ek Jaan Hain Hum" (1983). Shabbir Kumar was acknowledged as a leading playback singer with the film "Betaab". Music director Rahul Dev Burman got him to sung all the five songs for Sunny Deol. Also, in 1983, "Coolie" was released, in which L-P had given him all the seven songs, six for Amitabh Bachchan, and one for Rishi Kapoor.

In the 1980s, Shabbir Kumar sang for all the leading music directors including Laxmikant-Pyarelal, Rahul Dev Burman, Kalyanji-Anandji, Rajesh Roshan, Usha Khanna, Bappi Lahiri, Anu Malik, Ravindra Jain, Raamlaxman, Nadeem Shravan,Uttam Singh and also for Ismail Darbar and A.R. Rahman. He did playback singing for leading actors such as Dilip Kumar, Amitabh Bachhan,Dharmendra, Jackie Shroff, Rishi Kapoor, Jeetendra, Mithun Chakraborty, Raj Babbar, Govinda, Chunky Pandey, Sanjay Dutt, Kumar Gaurav, Kamal Hassan, Rajnikant, Anil kapoor, Rajeev kapoor and Sunil Shetty.

His last hit songs were "Gori Hai Kalaiyan" from "Aaj Ka Arjun" (1990) and "Sochna Kya" from "Ghayal" (1990).

Shabbir then started concentrating on stage shows. He sang for a few films in 2000s, "Ghaath" (2000), "Awara Paagal Deewana" (2002), and "" (2004).

Notable songs

* "Jab Hum Jawan Honge" from "Betaab" (1983), composed by Rahul Dev Burman (duet with Lata Mangeshkar)
* "Tumse Milkar Naa Jaane Kyon" from "Pyaar Jhukata Naheen" (1985), composed by Laxmikant-Pyarelal
* "Jeet Jayenge Hum" from "Meri Jung" (1985), composed by Laxmikant-Pyarelal
* "Naa Maange Sona Chandi" (parody) from "Mr. India" (1987), composed by Laxmikant-Pyarelal
* "Gori Hai Kalaiyan" from "Aaj Ka Arjun" (1990)
* "Sochna Kya" from "Ghayal" (1990)
* "Zeehal-e-Musqeen" from Ghulami
* "Pyar kiya nahi jaata" from Woh Saat Din
* "Saari duniya ka bojh" from Coolie

References

External links

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* [http://www.earthmusic.net/search.php?singerid%5B%5D=sk&singermtype=exact Songs sung by Shabbir Kumar]