Shahanshah-e-Ghazal Mehdi Hassan losing power to speak

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LAHORE: Shahanshah-e-Ghazal Mehdi Hassan, whose matchless voice and unique performing skills had ruled the world of music for over half a century, is fast losing his power to speak

The maestro Mehdi Hassan, who kept the music lovers captivated by singing his thousands of geets and ghazals and captured the imagination of listeners worldwide, was born in the Jaipur city of the Indian state of Rajasthan.

He started his career as a lyricist from Radio Pakistan in 1952 by singing the hit song ‘Gulo may rang bharay bad-e-now bahar chalay’ and, thereafter, he never looked behind but went on singing one hit after the other over a span of 50 years totaling over 30,000 geets and ghazals, whose popularity among the masses shot him to pinnacles of glory and made him Pakistan’s supreme specialist in the art of Ghazalas.

This legend vocalist gave ghazals’ performance a new tune and tenor never heard before by the lovers of music, who got enchanted and simply turned mad for Mehdi’s songs all over.

This great icon of music world called king of lyricism today caught in the midst of inevitable aging afflictions is reported to be fast losing his voice.

The art of music in the decades of 60s and 70s could be justifiably named to Mehdi Hassan’s decades, as hardly there would have been any one hero of the cine-world on whom Mehdi Hassan’s song was not filmed.

Mehdi Hassan has now taken Karachi as his permanent abode and when he visited Lahore now after a long time. He spent most of his time with his sons, daughters and other family members.

The art and artist in any society are valued as cultural heritage, whose due care and protection are attributes of civilized nations. Mehdi Hassan now cannot sing, but we have to keep his art alive for the generations to come.

akhtar

really sad to hear this unfortunate news about this great singer - i remember you had mentioned this on HF chat too !!

only hope that he is able to recover, like Julie Andrews did ..and will be able to use his voice to speak at least , if not sing. It's so tragic for a person whose voice is so famous - to even imagine that he may not be able to use that golden voice even to speak !

sri

ALLAHA UNKE SHEEFA AATA FARMAAYE

SUMMA AMEEN

hi seniors


i have good collection of khan sb

but i missed a ghazal in which starting with the coments of Gulzar some thing like this

GULZAR SAYS " BARI MUKAMMAL FORM HE GHAZAL KI, PAR LEGEYE YA GA LEGEYE IS SUNNAY WALA CHAHYE IS ORDIANCE CHAHYE, SAAZ KE SATH YA BINA SAAZ K, TARRANUM ME KAHYE YA GAA KER ADDA KEJYE , MEHBOOB K SATH GUFTAGOO ZAROORI HE...............................................



and then khan sb starts a ghazal


please brothers if any 0one have that track, then i desperatly need that

It would be nice If Mehdi Hasan sahib would have used his voice to read Hamd or Naat.