Singing legend - Mohd Rafi

In the memory of the singing legend Mohd Rafi on his 27th death anniversary on 31st July 1980, The Rafi Foundation €" Mumbai Chapter is releasing SARGAM €" a special issue magazine devoted to him.

The magazine will be a special Collectors item copy which will carry articles, photographs, anecdotes and reminiscences from people who were closely associated with the singing star.

The activities of The Rafi Foundation will be sustained by the advertising revenue. The main aim of this newly formed foundation is to bring closer all the Rafi fans on a single platform. It would also celebrate Rafi€™s birthday by building a library having Rafi€™s works and institute an award for extraordinary musicians in the memory of the prodigy.

Mohd Rafi is known for his mellifluous singing of soft romantic numbers ghazals, bhangra, bhajans, classicals, sad songs, duets, and even high pitched fast numbers.

Legendary singer, Mohd Rafi will soon be immortalised in the city centre in Birmingham as an architect fan of his Tasawar Bashir, is building a shrine with the idea of making the late singer a saint.

A modern day memorial will be built to honour a stalwart of the film industry says the former film producer turned architect.

Mohd Rafi us twenty-seven years ago but his songs are as popular as they were many a decade back. In a career spanning three -and- a -half decades Mohd Rafi rose to the top in male play-back singing giving us memorable songs for every mood and for every occassion.

We are glad to inform that music lovers in Mumbai have formed the 'Rafi Music Academy' and are now in the process of compiling a directory of RAFI music lovers. The academy has now added chapters in Delhi, Bangalore, Kolkatta and Hyderabad and RAFI fan can now interact and network through the Rafi website: www.mohdrafi.com. A pictorial biography on Mohd Rafi - the most melodious and versatile singer of our times - is being published.