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Indian music, musicians, singers, and composers.

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Mukesh (singer)

Overview Mukesh Chand Mathur (22 July 1923 – 27 August 1976), known mononymously as Mukesh, was one of the most popular playback singers of Hindi cinema. With a soft, plaintive baritone, he became closely identified w...

Manna Dey

Overview Manna Dey (1 May 1919 – 24 October 2013), born Prabodh Chandra Dey, was an Indian playback singer and classical vocalist regarded among the most versatile voices of Hindi cinema. Active in playback singing fr...

Hemant Kumar

Hemant Kumar Hemant Kumar Mukhopadhyay (16 June 1920 – 26 September 1989), known professionally as Hemant Kumar and in Bengali as Hemanta Mukherjee, was an Indian playback singer, music director and producer who worke...

Talat Mahmood

Overview Talat Mahmood (24 February 1924 – 9 May 1998) was an Indian playback singer and ghazal artiste, widely regarded as one of the foremost exponents of the non-classical ghazal in Hindi cinema and Urdu light musi...

Geeta Dutt

Geeta Dutt Geeta Dutt (born Geeta Ghosh Roy Chowdhuri; 23 November 1930 – 20 July 1972) was an Indian playback singer and Hindi cinema vocalist. Active primarily during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, she was known for he...

Shamshad Begum

Shamshad Begum Shamshad Begum (1919–2013) was one of the earliest and most influential playback singers of Indian cinema. Known for her distinctive, robust and slightly nasal voice, she sang in Hindi, Punjabi and seve...

Suraiya

Suraiya Suraiya Jamal Sheikh (15 June 1929 – 31 January 2004), known mononymously as Suraiya, was an Indian playback singer and actress in Hindi cinema. Active primarily during the 1940s and 1950s, she was one of the ...

Noor Jehan

Overview Noor Jehan (1926–2000) was a celebrated singer and actress whose career spanned the cinema of British India, post-Partition India, and Pakistan. Widely known by her honorific Malika-e-Tarannum ("Queen of Melo...

S. D. Burman

Overview Sachin Dev Burman (1 October 1906 – 31 October 1975), popularly known as S. D. Burman or Burman Dada, was an Indian music director and singer. One of the most influential composers of Hindi cinema, he scored ...

R. D. Burman

Overview Rahul Dev Burman (27 June 1939 – 4 January 1994), popularly known as R. D. Burman or by the nickname Pancham, was an Indian music director and composer who reshaped the sound of Hindi film music between the l...

O. P. Nayyar

Overview Omkar Prasad Nayyar, popularly known as O. P. Nayyar, was an Indian film music composer associated with Hindi cinema during its golden era of the 1950s and 1960s. Known for his rhythmic, melodic and Western-i...

Shankar–Jaikishan

Overview Shankar–Jaikishan was an Indian composer duo who scored music for Hindi cinema from the late 1940s through the early 1970s. Comprising Shankarsingh Raghuwanshi and Jaikishan Dayabhai Panchal, the duo became o...

Laxmikant–Pyarelal

Overview Laxmikant–Pyarelal was an Indian composer duo comprising Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar (1937–1998) and Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma (born 1940). Active in Hindi cinema from the early 1960s until the late 1990s, t...

Kalyanji–Anandji

Overview Kalyanji–Anandji is the professional name of the Indian music director duo comprising the brothers Kalyanji Virji Shah (1928–2000) and Anandji Virji Shah (born 1933). Active primarily in Hindi cinema from the...

Nadeem–Shravan

Overview Nadeem–Shravan is an Indian music director duo comprising Nadeem Akhtar Saifi and Shravan Kumar Rathod. The pair composed for Hindi cinema from the early 1970s as assistants and rose to prominence in the 1990...

Jatin–Lalit

Overview Jatin–Lalit is an Indian music director duo consisting of brothers Jatin Pandit and Lalit Pandit. Active primarily through the 1990s and early 2000s, the duo composed soundtracks for several commercially and ...

Ilaiyaraaja

Overview Ilaiyaraaja is an Indian film composer, songwriter, singer, instrumentalist and conductor known primarily for his work in Tamil cinema. Active since the mid-1970s, he has composed scores and soundtracks for o...

Vishal–Shekhar

Overview Vishal–Shekhar is an Indian music composer duo comprising Vishal Dadlani and Shekhar Ravjiani, primarily working in Hindi cinema. The pair has been one of the most prolific composing teams in Bollywood since ...

Amit Trivedi

Overview Amit Trivedi is an Indian music composer, singer, and lyricist who works primarily in Hindi cinema, with additional contributions to Tamil, Telugu, and Marathi films, as well as independent and theatre music....

Anirudh Ravichander

Overview Anirudh Ravichander, often credited mononymously as Anirudh, is an Indian film composer, music producer, singer and instrumentalist who works primarily in Tamil cinema, with assignments in Telugu, Hindi and o...