Tributes on his 42nd Death Anniversary The angel of music, Mohammed Rafi with unique tonal voice, with versatility and crystal clear intonations rendered thousands of heart-warming songs. These varied from fast peppy numbers to classical songs, lamenting melodies to highly romantic songs, qawwalis to ghazals and bhajans to patriotic songs. He poignantly brought out emotions with his exquisite melodious and mellifluous voice for over seven decades. Goddess Saraswati’s abode was in his sublime divine voice. In Baiju Bawra, he demonstrated his virtuosity while in ‘Pyasa’ he gave the evocative power to the lyrics. Though he did make a partial transition to a more playful style as in Junglee, he was too closely wedded to the classical tradition to wander too far from it. Celebrities have fans but Mohammed Rafi had worshippers, who have built “Temples” in his sweet remembrance. Mohammed Rafi was born as Pheeku to Hajji Ali Mohammed and Allah Rakhi on 24 December, 1924, in the village K
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