Kishore Kumar Musical artist

Kishore Kumar (Bengali: কিশোর কুমার গাঙ্গুলী; born Abhas Kumar Ganguly 4 August 1929 – 13 October 1987) was an Indian film playback singer, actor, lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenplay writer and scriptwriter. He is in general considered the most successful & greatest playback singer of the film industry. He sang in many Indian languages including Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Assamese, Gujarati, Kannada, Bhojpuri, Malayalam, Oriya, and Urdu. He has also sung in private albums in several languages especially in Bengali which are noted as all time classics. He won 8 Filmfare Awards for Best Male Playback Singer and holds the record for winning the most Filmfare Awards in that category. He was awarded the "Lata Mangeshkar Award" by the Madhya Pradesh government and from that year onwards, the Madhya Pradesh Government initiated a new award called the "Kishore Kumar Award" for contributions to Hindi cinema.

Personal facts

Birth dateAugust 04, 1929
Birth place
Khandwa , Central Provinces and Berar
Date of deathOctober 13, 1987
Place of death
Maharashtra , Mumbai

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Musical artist

Career started1946
Career ended1987
BackgroundSolo singer
genre
Rock and roll
Classical music
Dance music

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