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 Altaf Raja, the “Qawalli King” is one of the
pioneers of pop music in
India
. Altaf Raja made pop history with Tum To Thehere
Pardesi. The song made waves and introduced a new
voice to Indian listeners.
No one is really
certain what accounts for Raja's meteoric rise to
fame. There is no doubt, however, that he has a
mass appeal that most singers in the pop arena would
kill for. His brand of singing is fresh, he has
a trained voice, his music is hummable and his lyrics
simple. Yet he looks odd among the conventional
pop stars.
Raja is the most stunning surprise the country and
its currently sluggish music industry has had in
recent times. His album Tum To Thehre Pardesi
is
reported to have sold over four million copies.
No one is really
certain what accounts for Raja's meteoric rise to
fame. There is no doubt, however, that he has a
mass appeal that most singers in the pop arena would
kill for. His brand of singing is fresh, he has
a trained voice, his music is hummable and his lyrics
simple. Yet he looks odd among the conventional
pop stars.
Born to little known qawwals Rani
Roop Lata and Ibrahim Iqbal, Raja accompanied his
parents for shows all over the country. His parents
were acutely conscious of the need for a sound education.
By the time he was 20, Raja was singing Muslim devotional
songs in true Sufi tradition at public functions.
In 1996, Raja recorded his first commercial album.
Venus released it as Panga Le Liya. But it was Tum
To Thehre Pardesi that made waves. Since
then Altaf Raja has released many albums and sung
for features films including Company and Shapath.
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