Mohammed Aziz

Mohammed Aziz (born 2 July 1954) is an Indian playback singer in Bollywood and Bengali film industry.Aziz made his film debut in a Bengali language film, Jyoti. He came to Mumbai in 1984, with reference from a producer's relative. His first Hindi film was Ambar (1984).[1] Aziz started out his musical career as a singer in a renowned restaurant GHALIB in Calcutta. He got a big break when the music director Anu Malik got him to sing the song Mard Taangewala for the movie Mard, picturised on Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan, People thought it was a Shabbir Kumar's song and that was one of the reasons of the song to be a hit and then Aziz became a popular singer, and was patronised by leading music directors including Kalyanji-Anandji, Laxmikant-Pyarelal, Rahul Dev Burman, Naushad, O. P. Nayyar, Bappi Lahiri, Rajesh Roshan, Usha Khanna, Anand-Milind, Nadeem-Shravan, Jatin Lalit, Anu Malik, Anand Raj Anand and Aadesh Shrivastava. Mohd.Aziz is now busy in the Oriya film industry. He has sung several Oriya bhajans, private albums, and Oriya film songs since 1985. Some of his Oriya bhajans (Lord Jagannath's Bhajans) are famous almost in every oriya family. He has been performing many stage shows in India and abroad. Mohd. Aziz was nominated twice for best male playback singer award. Mohd. Aziz was very close to Laxmikant Pyarelal; After Laxmi-Pyare, his career went down and other music directors took to other singers such as Udit Narayan. Mohd. Aziz is one of the most versatile and authentic singers who had equally good command over classical as well as non classical music. At his peak, he used to be considered as an heir to Mohd. Rafi. He is one of the rare singers who can sing at the 7th note (saatwan sur) - example being his song, "Saare Shikawe Gile Bhulaa Ke Kaho". Laxmi-Pyare recognized his potential very early and repeated him in a lot of their movies. He has done playback singing for famous actors such as Amitabh Bachchcan, Govinda, Rishi Kapoor, Mithun chakraborty and several others.