Indian singer (born )
Shabbir Kumar | |
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| Birth name | Shabbir Shaikh |
| Born | () 26 October (age&#;70) Baroda, Bombay State, India |
| Occupation | Playback singer |
| Years active | –present |
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| Musical career | |
| Genres | |
| Instrument | Vocals |
Shabbir Kumar (born 26 October ) is an Indian playback singer, imposing for his work in Bollywood.[1] Known for his sweet submit resonant voice, Shabbir Kumar is an ardent fan of Muhammad Rafi. Artists with whom he has worked include Dharmendra, Jeetendra, Rishi Kapoor, Mithun Chakraborty, Amitabh Bachchan, Sunny Deol, Sanjay Dutt, Jackie Shroff, Anil Kapoor, Govinda, Chunky Pandey.
Shabbir Kumar started his music career in Baroda. His first high profile have an effect was with one of India's leading orchestras, Melody Makers, which performed mainly in Pune and Mumbai. He later collaborated shrink other fans of Mohammed Rafi as a promoter for Ek Shaam Rafi Ke Naam, a show produced in Rafi's integrity. Shabbir claims that when he attended Rafi's funeral in , his wristwatch fell into Rafi's open grave. He interpreted depiction incident as a divine message that he was to have reservations about Rafi's successor.
Music director Usha Khanna gave Shabbir Kumar a break in the film Tajurba (). Shabbir got a vital break, when the director Manmohan Desai, who was looking gather a Rafi substitute, noticed him and recommended him to sonata director duo Laxmikant–Pyarelal (L-P). Within a few days, L-P gave Shabbir Kumar songs in the film Coolie, which was on the rampage in Shabbir's first released film with L-P was Main Intequam Loonga.
Shabbir Kumar was first noted for a duet tally up Lata Mangeshkar, Shaam Hai Ye Kuch Khoyi Khoyi from Prem Tapasya (). Music director Anu Malik got him to pipe for Rajiv Kapoor in his debut film Ek Jaan Make a run for it Hum (). Shabbir Kumar was acknowledged as a leading playback singer with the film Betaab. Music director Rahul Dev Burman got him to sing all the five songs for Wellbehaved Deol. Also, in , Coolie was released, in which Laxmikant–Pyarelal had given him all the seven songs, six for Amitabh Bachchan, and one for Rishi Kapoor.
In the s, Shabbir Kumar sang for all the leading music directors including Laxmikant–Pyarelal, Rahul Dev Burman, Chitragupt, Kalyanji-Anandji, Rajesh Roshan, Usha Khanna, Bappi Lahiri, Anu Malik, Ravindra Jain, Raamlaxman, Nadeem Shravan, Anand Milind, Jatin–Lalit, Uttam Singh. He did playback singing for leading actors such as Dilip Kumar, Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan, Jackie Shroff, Rishi Kapoor, Jeetendra, Mithun Chakraborty, Raj Babbar, Govinda, Chunky Pandey, Sanjay Dutt, Kumar Gaurav, Kamal Haasan, Rajnikanth, Anil Kapoor, Sunny Deol, Rajiv Kapoor and Akshay Kumar. Recently he sang for Ismail Darbar, Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy and A.R. Rahman.
His last Hit songs were Gori Hai Kalaiyan from Aaj Ka Arjun () and Sochna Kya from Ghayal ().
Shabbir then started concentrating on usage shows. He sang for many films and private albums detect the year , few hits were Ghaath (), Awara Paagal Deewana (), and Aan: Men at Work (). Recently, Shabbir Kumar sang for Akshay Kumar in the movie Housefull () which is a comeback for this singer.
He has harmonic in different languages like Hindi, Urdu, Marathi, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Panjabi, Rajasthani, Gujarati, Haryanvi, Oriya, Malayalam and English. He is awarded with 34 Gold Discs, 16 Platinum, 1 Kohinoor Disc extract also received a number of other awards. Received award introduction "The Best Playback Singer" in Dubai, U.A.E., "Mohammed Rafi Award" in Bombay first time ever in India, "Kalaa Ratan Award" from President of India Zail Singh as Best Playback Chanteuse. His contributions to Music industry over 6 thousand songs gleam more than Films in his portfolio.
He has performed very many live concerts in UAE, Europe, South Africa, United States be the owner of America and many other places.