There have been many singers in Hindi fim industries;but for me RAFI has been greatest among all.
Not because he dominated Hindi film industries for more than 3 decades;but because he was most versatile in all respects.
He is only one singer in the Hindi film industry who has been imitated the most is Mohammed Rafi. But his caliber was such that none of his imitators could match up to him. His voice was so versatile that it suited any mood ranging from the boisterous to the melancholic.
Rafi was born on December 24, 1924 in a small village near Amritsar and later shifted to Lahore. He was first trained in music by Ghulam Ali Khan and he recorded his first song in 1944 for a Punjabi film Gul Baloch with music director Shyam Sunder. Not many people know that had acted in couple of films, Laila Majnu(1945) and Jugnu(1947). Rafi made his mark with Tera Khilona Toota Balak in Anmol Ghari(1946).