Mohammed Aziz

Born:2 July 1954

Died:27 November 2018

He was an Indian playback singer in the Bollywood, Bengali and Odia film industries.
He made his film debut in a Bengali language film, Jyoti.
He came to Mumbai in 1984, with references from a producer’s relative.
His first Hindi film was Ambar (1984).
He started out his musical career as a singer in the restaurant Ghalib in Kolkata.
He got a break when the music director Anu Malik got him to sing the song Mard Taangewala for the movie Mard, starring Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan.
He worked in the Odia film industry and sung several Odia bhajans, private albums, and Odia film songs since 1985.
Some of his Odia bhajans (Lord Jagannath’s Bhajans) are famous.
He has performed stage shows in India and abroad, and has been nominated twice for best male playback singer award.
He was very close to Laxmikant-Pyarelal; After Laxmi-Pyare, his career went down and other music directors took to other singers such as Kumar Sanu, Udit Narayan.
He was one of the rare singers who can sing at the 7th note (saatwan sur) — an example being his song, “Saare Shikawe Gile Bhulaa Ke Kaho”.
Laxmi-Pyare recognised his potential very early and repeated him in a lot of their movies.