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Asha Bhosle[1] (born 8 September 1933), is an Indian singer.
She is best known as a playback singer in Hindi cinema, although she has a
wider repertoire.[2][3][4] Bhosle's career started in 1943 and has spanned
over six decades. She has done playback singing for over a thousand Bollywood
movies. In addition, she has recorded several private albums and participated
in numerous solo concerts in India and abroad.[5][6] Bhosle is the sister of
playback singer Lata Mangeshkar. Renowned for her voice range and often
credited for her versatility,[2][7][8] Bhosle's work includes film music,
pop, ghazals, bhajans, traditional Indian classical music, folk songs,
qawwalis, and Rabindra Sangeets. Apart from Hindi, she has sung in over 20
Indian and foreign languages.[9] In 2006, Asha Bhosle stated that she had
sung over 12,000 songs,[10] a figure repeated by several other
sources.[9][11] In 2011, she was officially acknowledged by the Guinness Book
of World Records as the most recorded artist in music history.[12] The Government
of India honoured her with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2000 and the Padma
Vibhushan[13] in 2008. In 2013, she made her debut as an actress in the film
Mai, and received critical acclaim for her performance. Asha Bhosle was born
in the small hamlet of Goar in Sangli, then in the salute princely state of
Sangli (now in Maharashtra), into the musical family of Master Deenanath
Mangeshkar, who belongs to the Marathi-speaking Gomantak Maratha Samaj. Her
father was an actor and classical singer on Marathi Musical stage. When she
was nine years old, her father died. The family moved from Pune to Kolhapur
and then to Mumbai. She and her elder sister Lata Mangeshkar began singing
and acting in films to support their family. She sang her first film song '"Chala
Chala Nav Bala" for the Marathi film Majha Bal (1943). The music for the
film was composed by Datta Davjekar. She made her Hindi film debut when she
sang the song "Saawan Aaya" for Hansraj Behl's Chunariya
(1948).[14] Her first solo Hindi film song was for the movie Raat Ki Raani
(1949). At the age of 16, she eloped with 31-year-old Ganpatrao Bhosle,
marrying him against her family's wishes.
Ustad Ghulam Ali (Urdu: غُلام علی ), (born 5 December 1940) is a
Pakistani ghazal and playback singer of the Patiala Gharana. Ghulam Ali was a
disciple of Bade Ghulam Ali Khan (elder Ghulam Ali Khan) and Chhote Ghulam
Ali (younger Ghulam Ali), who is another Pakistani singer in the "Qawwal
Bachhon ka Gharana. Ghulam Ali is considered to be one of the best ghazal singers
of his era. His style and variations in singing Ghazals has been noted as
unique, as he blends Hindustani classical music with ghazals, unlike any
other ghazal singer. Highly popular in Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, as
well as among South Asian diaspora in the USA, the UK and the Middle Eastern
countries. Many of his hit ghazals have been used in Bollywood movies. His
famous ghazals are Chupke Chupke Raat Din, Kal Chaudhvin Ki Raat Thi, Hungama
Hai Kyon Barpa,Chamakte Chand Ko, Kiya Hai Pyar Jisé, May Nazar Sé Pee Raha
Hoon, Mastana Peeyé, Yé dil yé pagal dil, Apni Dhun Mein Rehta Hoon a ghazal
by Nasir Kazmi, "Ham Ko Kiske Gham Ne Maara". His recent album
"Hasratein" was nominated in the Best Ghazal Album category at Star
GIMA Awards 2014. He was married to Afsana Ali and has a daughter Manjari
Ghulam Ali. In 2015, due to protest by Shiv Sena at Mumbai, his concert was
cancelled. After this, he received invitations from Delhi Chief Minister
Arvind Kejriwal, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee and Uttar Pradesh
Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.[1] After this cancellation, he performed at
Lucknow, India.,[2] New Delhi And in Trivandrum, and Kozhikode, Kerala,
India. In a news item reported in 2015, Ghulam Ali has said that he won't
perform in India in the future. He said that he does not want to be used for
political mileage
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