|
 Bhupinder
and Mitalee Singh are one of the more famous ghazal
couples and behind such hit albums as Ek Haseen Shaam
and Mohabbat.
Bhupinder was born in
Amritsar. His father, Prof Natha Singh, was a
professor of music. He got his break early in 1963
when he sang for the film Haqeeqat,
along with Mohd Rafi and Talat
Mahmood.
The song, Hoke majboor mujhe, was
quite a hit. He continues to sing sporadically for the
films.
Bhupinder's first Ghazal
album was released in 1978 and has since then released
several ghazal albums. He is very well versed with the
Spanish guitar and has worked as a studio artist
playing the guitar for several years. He played for
almost all songs composed by R.D. Burman.
His ghazals are
characterized by a heavy influence of western chords,
guitars and western drums. Perhaps he was the first to
move away from ghazals as a form of light classical
music. While that made ghazals more popular, it also
made ghazals indistinguishable from film songs.
Mitalee Singh was
born in Bangladesh to a musical family. She came to
India on a government scholarship to study classical
music in Baroda. She is a disciple of Pandit Shiv
Kumar Shukla, a wizard of Bhendi Bazar Gharana. Around
1976 she got interested in Ghazals. In 1983 she
married Bhupinder, one of her favourite Ghazal singers.
Since then they
have been singing together for several joint albums
and live concerts. |
