Talat Mahmood is known as ‘velvet-voice’ singer, ‘unique transparent voice’ singer, ’silky voice’ singer,’ satin-voice singer,’ golden-voice singer,’ ‘king of ghazals’, ‘king of sad and soulful songs’ etc. He was born on February 24, 1924, in Lucknow, India, in a conservative, middle-class family with a musical background in the sense that his father and sisters [...]

Today the nightingale of India, Lata Mangeshkar is celebrating her 80th birthday. Frankally speaking, the whole nation is celebrating her birthday. From last 6 decades, her melodious voice has been touching the hearts and souls of millions of her admirers around the world. She has been the first choice for all the film producers and [...]

Kurt Cobain was the lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of the one of the most popular rock bands of its time, Nirvana. Nirvana rocked the music industry with its superb songs and music. This rock band was formed by Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987. However, Nirvana’s brief run ended with [...]

Lata Mangeshkar has sung almost all types of songs which include popular and light classical music, ghazals, bhajans, hindustani or karnatic music and pop. She is the supreme voice of popular Indian music, an Indian institution. She is a living legend. Many of her songs are considered timeless and undatable. It is very difficult to [...]

Today India is celebrating its 62nd anniversary of Independence. 62 years ago, on 15th August 1947 India finally got freedom from 200 years old British rule. Millions of freedom fighters sacrificed their life for the purpose to achieve this independence. Independence Day holds is not only important for the people of India but also very [...]

This week Michael Jackson memorial service held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. This service was broadcast live and was watched by more than 1 billion people in the world. After the memorial service of Michael, a private family service held at Forest Lawn Memorial Park’s Hall of Liberty in Hollywood Hills which involved [...]

While searching for top 10 songs, I came to know about the Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs. It is a list of top 100 songs from the chart’s first 50 years, August 1958 through July 2008. Billboard is a weekly American magazine related to music industry, which maintains several internationally recognized music charts that [...]

Michael Jackson is no more. He was an American biggest Pop Singer, entertainer and businessman. He was also known as the King of Pop. He made his debut onto the professional music scene at the age of 11 as a member of The Jackson 5 in 1969, and began a solo career in 1971 while [...]

The King of Pop is no more. He was pronounced dead after arriving at a Los Angeles hospital in full cardiac arrest. He was 50. He remains the greatest entertainer of recent times. Entering popular music charts in early 1980s, he was the first African-American artist to gain constant airplay on MTV when Billie Jean, [...]

Today I got the chance to watch Anurag Kashyap’s Gulaal.  Believe me after a long time I have seen a Hindi movie having such nice and meaningful songs, for example I love Aarambh Hai Prachand. This song has very powerful and inspiring lyrics. Other songs of the movie are also worth listening. The movie is based on college politics so [...]

Now a days everyone is talking about A R Rahman. He recently won double oscar for his music direction in the movie Slumdog Millionaire. For the first time, the whole world is interested in knowing more about the Indian music directors. So I have decided to start “best of” series on Indian music directors where [...]

Thank God, finally a girl became India Idol. Indian Idol is one of the most popular television shows on Indian television. Basically, it is a singing talent contest to determine the best undiscovered young singer in the country. Sourabhee Debbarama is a girl from Agartala, who beat other 2 finalists Torsha Sarkar and Kapil Thapa [...]

After winning two oscar awards for the movie Slumdog Millionaire, A R Rahman has become a global star. Till now, he has won four National Film Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe two Academy Awards and 24 filmfare awards. He is the only Indian who has won two Oscars. Time Magazine has referred to [...]

Music is not only great source of entertainment but also good for our brain and memory. I am not joking. Recently scientists from UK have proved this through some experiments. They have suggested that Beatles music can help you in recalling memory, even you can remember long forgotten events of their lives. They have also [...]

On the grand occasion of completing 18 months on internet, I am introducing Music edition of abhisays.com. Being from India, I love Bollywood songs. Bollywood songs, also known as Hindi Film Songs are heard far beyond the borders of India. The lines of Bollywood songs are some of the most memorized and repeated expressions in [...]