Mehdi Hassan (King of Ghazal)

Mehdi Hassan Khan, one of the greatest name in the world of music and Ghazal singing, he was born in July 18, 1927 in Luna, Rajasthan, India.
He is former playback singer for Lollywood and the greatest Ghazal singer, he achieved number of awards and honors like Tamgha-e-Imtiaz , Pride of performance and Hilal-e-Imtiaz by Government of Pakistan and Gorkha Dakshina Bahu by Government of Nepal on his best way of singing.


The title he achieved by the world of music, the title that no body ever get, the honorable Pakistani ghazal singer Mehdi Hassan got that title on behalf of his great work for ghazal singing and the unique style that he used which makes him the best among all. Mehdi Hassan was awarded with the title of
Shahnshah-e-Ghazal which means King of Ghazal.

Career : 


Mehdi Hassan was born in the family of musicians, he had his music grooming by his father
Ustad Azeem Khan and on of his uncle Ustad Ismail Khan and both were famous dhropad singers.
Mehdi Hassan's early life was full of hurdles and problems, after partition his family migrated to Pakistan and that time they were suffering with severe financial problems, to cover such issues he started working in bicycle workshop and later he became car diesel tractor mechanic, along with his work he kept up his music practice on daily routine because music was his only passion.

Later he got chance to sing for Radio Pakistan in 1957 and he started singing with Thumri, at that time there were number of ghazal and thumri singer like Begum Akhtar, Ustad Barkat Ali khan so competition was quiet tough for him.

Later in early 1980's he started singing as a playback singer for Pakistani films.











Mehdi Hassan visited almost everywhere in the world and showed the people his magic in music, he's been awarded with number of titles by different governments. He launched his number of albums, and he had sung number of duets with many of the singers from the world.

Here we can see Mehdi Hassan with the Indian Queen of music Lata Mangeshkar.

 Mehdi Hassan with Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhoslay.

Mehdi Hassan with one of the best Bollywood hero Salman Khan.












Here we have few of his ghazals for Lollywood and his own singles.

Ab k hum bichre to shaid ......