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Singer known for patriotic songs
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Mahendra Kapoor
Mahendra Kapoor

Hit songs
Yeh maati sabhi ki kahani kahegi, Mere desh ki dharti, Kho gaya hai mera pyar, Kisi patthar ki moorat se, Na muhh chhupa ke jiyo, Chalo ek baar

MAHENDRA Kapoor was born in 1934 at Amritsar. He showed inclination towards singing when he was barely five. Mohammad Rafi became his idol and at 12, he met Rafi. It was here that Kapoor’s idol advised him to develop his original style rather than imitate him. Kapoor’s classical vocal mentors were literally who’s who of the music world. These included Pt. Husn Lal, Ustad Niaz Ahmed Khan, Pt. Jagannath Bua Purohit, Khan Saheb Abdur Rehman, Afzal Husain Khan and Pt. Tulsidas Sharma. Kapoor took part in several music competitions. When in college, he won the All-India Metro Murphy contest in 1957. This brought him a chance to sing in films. One of the judges of the competition was Naushad who recorded Chand chupa aur taare doobe for film, Sohni Mahiwal.

The song was appreciated and Mahendra Kapoor got many chances to sing after that. In 1970, he became famous and recorded songs for Manoj Kumar. Mahendra Kapoor worked for many films under many music composers. He is better known for his patriotic and devotional songs.

www.indianmelody.com/mahendrakapoor.htm

Four great songs of Mahendra Kapoor are available to listen online. The songs are Chalo ek baar from Gumrah, Neele gagan ke tale from Hamraaz, Tere pyar ka aasra from Dhool ka phool and the most famous Adha hai chandrama from Navrang. All songs are in Real Media Format and the quality of songs is good.

www.musicindiaonline.com/music/l/03030L

There are nearly 20 songs available on this site. One can mail the song link to friends from this site. This site also has the option of adding songs in online album for which one has to create ID. There are other pages where we can find Mahendra Kapoorsongs. One of the links where his songs are available is: www.musicindiaonline.com/music/s/?q=Mahendra%20Kapoor%20&c=03