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His first public performance came at the age of 13, when he sang in Lahore featuring K. Rafi learnt classical music from Ustad Abdul Wahid Khan, Pandit Jiwan Lal Mattoo and Firoze Nizami. Abdul Hameed later convinced the family elders to let Rafi move to Mumbai he accompanied him in 1944. His elder brother, Mohammad Deen, had a friend, Abdul Hameed, (future brother-in-law), who recognised the talent in Rafi in Lahore and encouraged him to sing. Rafi's father moved to Lahore in 1935, where he ran a men's salon in Noor Mohalla in Bhatti Gate. Rafi, whose nickname was Pheeko, began singing by imitating the chants of a fakir in the streets of his native village Kotla Sultan Singh where his family lived. The family originally belonged to Kotla Sultan Singh, a village near present-day Amritsar in Punjab, India. Mohammed Rafi was the second oldest of six brothers born to Hajji Ali Mohammad.

3 Recording career in the 1950s and 1960s.

Apart from Indian languages, he also sang songs in English, Farsi, Arabic, Creole, and Dutch. He sang in other Indian languages including Assamese, Konkani, Bhojpuri, Odia, Punjabi, Bengali, Marathi, Sindhi, Kannada, Gujarati, Telugu, Magahi, Maithili and Urdu. Rafi is primarily noted for his songs in Hindi, over which he had a strong command. In 1967, he was honoured with the Padma Shri award by the Government of India. He received six Filmfare Awards and one National Film Award. Between 19, Rafi was the most sought after singer in the Hindi film industry.

He was known for his ability to mould his voice to the persona of the actor, lip-synching the song. Rafi was notable for his versatility, his songs ranged from classical numbers to patriotic songs, sad lamentations to highly romantic numbers, qawwalis to ghazals and bhajans. Mohammed Rafi (24 December 1924 – 31 July 1980) was an Indian playback singer and one of the most popular singers of the Hindi film industry.

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Indian classical, Ghazal, Playback singing, Qawwali, Thumri, Bhajan, Western music Kotla Sultan Singh, Amritsar district, Punjab, British Raj football player, see Mohammed Rafi (footballer).