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Kishore Kumar
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Indian singer and actor (1929–1987)
OverviewAI-generated
Kishore Kumar was an Indian male actor-singer whose career began in 1946. He was born on August 4, 1929, and died on October 13, 1987. His musical output is associated with genres including Hindi, Indian, filmi, and Asian styles. On Last.fm, his music is tagged with terms such as bollywood, Hindi, india, and desi.
In addition to his musical career, Kishore Kumar is listed as an author with four works on Open Library. These include titles such as "Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on Computer and Communication Technologies," "Learn Python," "One Step Closer," and "Pro Apache Geronimo." Crossref records indicate he has five works. His encyclopedia entry is referenced by 1,414 other articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on Computer and Communication Technologies
- Learn Python
- One Step Closer
- Pro Apache Geronimo
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- India
- Active from
- 1929-08-04
- Active to
- 1987-10-13
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 147,747
- Total plays
- 3,980,030
Tags
Kishore Kumar (4 August 1929 – 13 October 1987) was a popular Indian film playback singer, actor, lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenplay writer and scriptwriter. He sang in many Indian languages including Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Assamese, Gujarati, Kannada, Bhojpuri, Malayalam, Oriya, and Urdu. He won 8 Filmfare Awards for Best Male Playback Singer and holds the record for winning the most Filmfare Awards in that category. Along with Mukesh and Mohammed Rafi <a href="https://www.las
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- MEGA7: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 7.0 for Bigger Datasets
· 2016 · cited 38,962x
- MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0
· 2013 · cited 34,833x
- MEGA X: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis across Computing Platforms
· 2018 · cited 33,759x
- MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods
· 2011 · cited 33,642x
- MEGA4: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (MEGA) Software Version 4.0
· 2007 · cited 23,334x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Abhas Kumar Ganguly , ( 1929-08-04 ) 4 August 1929, Khandwa , British India
- Died
- 13 October 1987 (1987-10-13) (aged 58), Bombay , India
- Other name
- Kishore Da
- Occupations
- Playback singer actor music director lyricist film producer film director screenwriter composer
- Years active
- 1946–1987
- Works
- Films songs
- Spouses
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- Children
- 2, including Amit
- Relatives
- See Ganguly family , See Mukherjee-Samarth family
- Awards
- Full list
- Genres
- Filmi Disco Pop Yodelling Rock and Roll Semi-Classical Comedy Music Rabindra Sangeet
- Instruments
- Vocals, piano
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Kishore Kumar (born Abhas Kumar Ganguly; pronunciation; 4 August 1929 – 13 October 1987) was an Indian playback singer, musician and actor. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest, most influential and dynamic singers in the history of Indian music. Kumar was one of the most popular singers in the Indian subcontinent, notable for his yodelling and ability to sing songs in different voices. He used to sing in different genres but some of his rare compositions, considered classics, were lost in time. In 2013, Kumar was voted "The Most Popular Male Playback Singer" in a poll conducted by the Filmfare magazine.
Besides Hindi, he sang in many other Indian languages, including Bengali, Marathi, Assamese, Gujarati, Kannada, Bhojpuri, Malayalam, Odia and Urdu. He also released a few non-film albums in multiple languages, especially in Bengali, which are noted as all-time classics. According to his brother and legendary actor Ashok Kumar, Kishore Kumar was successful as a singer because his "voice hits the mike, straight, at its most sensitive point".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kishore Kumar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.