Occupation(s) Singer Music director Jannat Ki Talash Name Asif Mehdi Grandparents Ustad Azeem Khan | Role Singer Parents Mehdi Hassan | |
Similar People Mehdi Hassan, Mir Taqi Mir, Shazia Manzoor, Nadeem Baig, Ghulam Ali | ||
Asif Mehdi Hassan Live in USA & Canada 2014
Humse Badal Gaya -Asif Mehdi Hassan son of Mehdi Hassan
Asif Mehdi (born 1966) is a Pakistani ghazal singer and a playback singer in Lollywood, Pakistan. He is known as much for reviving classical singing in his country as for being the son of the legendary Mehdi Hassan
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- Asif Mehdi Hassan Live in USA Canada 2014
- Humse Badal Gaya Asif Mehdi Hassan son of Mehdi Hassan
- Early life
- Performing career
- Films
- Awards
- Personal life
- References
Early life
Born in Pakistan to legendary ghazal singer, Mehdi Hassan. He started his training at age 13 from his father and his uncle Ghulam Qadir. His family migrated from Mandawa in Rajasthan, to Pakistan at the time of partition of India in 1947.
Performing career
Asif Mehdi performed with his father in Los Angeles in 1983 for the first time at age 17. When he sang, his father Mehdi Hasan was so annoyed that he rebuked him for singing in an effeminate voice. He has toured India, along with ghazal singer Jagjit Singh, in 2009 on the concert tour called Music for Peace which seeks to establish peaceful relations between India and Pakistan which share a common culture and language.
He, like his father, is fond of singing nazms by famous lyricists like Mir Taqi Mir, Ahmed Faraz, Qateel Shifai, Hafeez Jalandhari and Mirza Ghalib.
He signed a contract with Sony Entertainment last year and the album will be released across the globe in January 2010.
Films
He has done 60 movies in the Pakistani film industry.
Awards
Asif Mehdi won the Nigar Award in 1999 for his playback singing.
Personal life
Asif Mehdi lives with his family in Karachi, Pakistan.