Mohammed Rafi (24 December 1924 – 31 July 1980), was an Indian playback singer.whose career spanned four decades. He won a National Award and 6 Filmfare Awards. In 1967, he was honoured with thePadma Shri by the Government of India.In a career spanning about 40 years, Rafi sang over 26,000 film songs. His songs ranged from classical numbers to patriotic songs, sad lamentations to highly romantic numbers,qawwalis to ghazals and bhajans,and from slow melancholic tunes to fast and melodious fun filled songs.He had a strong command of Hindi and Urdu and a powerful range that could accommodate this variety. He sang in many Indian languages including Hindi,Konkani, Urdu, Bhojpuri, Oriya, Punjabi, Bengali, Marathi, Sindhi, Kannada, Gujarati,Telugu, Maghi, Maithili and Assamese. He also recorded a few English, Persian, Spanish and Dutch songs.
