Forty four years after Mohammed Rafi's untimely demise on July 31, 1980, at the young age of 55, the singer's work continues to enjoy a musical afterlife on radio, television and modern streaming ...

Mohammad Rafi is often called the “Voice of God”, a title famously bestowed on him by the renowned Bollywood director/producer Manmohan Desai. This was a testament to Manmohan Desai’s deep admiration ...

It’s been 44 years since his death in 1980 yet Rafi’s songs are just as popular and most frequently heard over the Vividh Bharati Service of Akashvani Mumbai and All India Radio’s Urdu Service from ...

The 100th birth anniversary of legendary singer Mohammad Rafi went unnoticed in his native village of Kotla Sultan Singh near Amritsar. Despite modest memorials and an auditorium, villagers urge the ...

Dilip Kumar, in his memoir The Substance and the Shadow (2014), recalls an incident from 1962, soon after the conflict at the Indo-China border, where he and Mohd Rafi were present to entertain the ...

At one stage in the 60s, Indian playback singer Mohammed Rafi was the regular singing voice of Dilip Kumar, Dev Anand, Shammi Kapoor, Rajendra Kumar, Joy Mukherjee, Biswajit, Dharmendra, Shashi Kapoor ...