» kishore kumar
Image: kisor4.jpg Kishore Kumar (August 4, 1929 October 13, 1987),
born in Madhya Pradesh to a Bengali family as Abhay Kumar Ganguly,
was an Indian film playback singer and actor. Kishore is widely acknowedged
as one of the finest Indian male playback singers of all time,
along with Mohammed Rafi and Mukesh. In addition to singing and acting,
Kishore Kumar achieved notable successes as a lyricist, composer, producer,
director, screenwriter and scriptwriter. He has sung in many Indian
languages including Hindi, Bengali (his mother tongue), Marathi, Assamese,
Gujarati, Kannada, Bhojpuri, Malayalam and Oriya.