Singer Mohammad Aziz dies after suffering cardiac arrest, he was 64

Veteran singer Mohammad Aziz, who has lent his voice to over 2000 songs in various languages, died following a cardiac arrest in Mumbai on Tuesday. He was 64.

Veteran singer Mohammad Aziz died in Mumbai’s Nanavati Hosptial on Tuesday. He was 64. The singer has lent his voice to over 2000 songs in Hindi, Bengali and Odia films.

Mohammad Aziz died in a Mumbai hospital.

A big fan of veteran singer Mohammed Rafi, Aziz started singing when he was a child. After making his singing debut with Bengali film Jyoti, he moved to Mumbai and made his debut with the 1984 Hindi film, Ambar. Music composer Anu Malik gave him his big break in Amitabh Bachchan-starrerr Mard, in which he sang ‘Mard Taangewala’.

During his career spanning three decades, he would go on to work with Kalyanji-Anandji, Laxmikant-Pyarelal, Rahul Dev Burman, Naushad, O. P. Nayyar, Bappi Lahiri, Rajesh Roshan, Raamlaxman, Ravindra Jain, Usha Khanna, Anand-Milind, Nadeem-Shravan, Jatin Lalit, Anu Malik, Damodar Raao, Anand Raj Anand and Aadesh Shrivastava.

Aziz has sung for several A-list actors such as Amitabh Bachchcan, Govinda, Rishi Kapoor, Mithun Chakraborty and several others. He has also sung several popular duets with Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle, Anuradha Paudwal and Kavita Krishnamurthy.

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