In 1945, he appeared on the screen for the song “Tera Jalwa Jis Ne Dekha” in the film Laila Majnu. He considered this song to be his first Hindi language song. Around the same time, Rafi recorded another song for the 1945 film Gaon Ki Gori, “Aji Dil Ho Kaaboo Mein”. Rafi’s first song with Naushad was “Hindustan Ke Hum Hain” with Shyam Kumar, Alauddin and others, from A. Durrani, “Aji dil ho kaabu mein to dildar ki aisi taisi…,” for Gaon Ki Gori, which became Rafi’s first recorded song in a Hindi film. Shyam Sunder was in Mumbai and provided the opportunity to Rafi to sing a duet with G. Poet Tanvir Naqvi introduced him to film producers including Abdur Rashid Kardar, Mehboob Khan and actor-director Nazeer. He and Hameed Sahab rented a ten-by-ten-feet room in the crowded downtown Bhendi Bazar area. He made his Hindi film debut in Gaon Ki Gori in 1945. In that same year, Rafi was invited by All India Radio Lahore station to sing for them. In 1941, Rafi, under Shyam Sundar, made his debut in Lahore as a playback singer in the duet “Soniye Nee, Heeriye Nee” with Zeenat Begum in the Punjabi film Gul Baloch (released in 1944) under music director Shyam Sunder. His first public performance came at the age of 13, when he sang in Lahore featuring K. Rafi learnt classical music from Ustad Abdul Wahid Khan, Pandit Jiwan Lal Mattoo and Firoze Nizami. Rafi’s father moved to Lahore in 1935, where he ran a men’s salon in Noor Mohalla in Bhati Gate. Rafi, whose nickname was Pheeko, began singing by imitating the chants of a fakir in the streets of his native village Kotla Sultan Singh where his family lived. The family originally belonged to Kotla Sultan Singh, a village near present-day Majitha in Amritsar district of Punjab, India. Mohammed Rafi was the second eldest of six brothers born to Hajji Ali Mohammad. Apart from Indian languages, he also sang songs in English, Farsi, Arabic, Sinhalese, Creole and Dutch. He sang in other Indian languages including Konkani, Bhojpuri, Odia, Punjabi, Bengali, Marathi, Sindhi, Kannada, Gujarati, Telugu, Magahi, Maithili and Urdu. He sang around 7,405 songs in many languages.
Rafi is primarily noted for his songs in Hindi, over which he had a strong command. In 1967, he was honoured with the Padma Shri award by the Government of India. He received six Filmfare Awards and one National Film Award. Between 19, Rafi was the most sought after singer in the Hindi film industry. He was known for his ability to mould his voice to the persona of the actor, lip-synching the song on screen in the movie. Rafi was notable for his voice and versatility his songs ranged from classical numbers to patriotic songs, sad lamentations to highly romantic numbers, qawwalis to ghazals and bhajans. Mohammed Rafi (24 December 1924 – 31 July 1980) was an Indian playback singer and one of the most popular singers of the Hindi film industry.
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