Mehdi Hassan losing Speaking Power
Shahanshah-e-Ghazal Mehdi Hassan
who had ruled the world of music half a century was losing speaking power fast.
Mehdi Hassan’s voice and unique performance skills in ‘Ghazal ghaiki’ were
unmatched in world of music. This great icon of music world called king of
lyricism today caught in the midst of inevitable aging afflictions is reported
to be fast losing his voice. The art of music in the decades of 60s and 70s
could be justifiably named to Mehdi Hassan’s decades, as hardly there would have
been any one hero of the cine-world on whom Mehdi Hassan’s song was not filmed,a
private television channel reported.
The maestro Mehdi Hassan, who kept the music lovers captivated by singing his
thousands of ‘geets and ghazals’ and captured the imagination of listeners
worldwide, was born in the Jaipur city of the Indian state of Rajasthan. The
King of Ghazal started his career as a lyricist from Radio Pakistan in 1952 by
singing the hit song “Gulo may rang bharay bad-e-now bahar chalay”. And,
thereafter, he never looked behind but went on singing one hit after the other
over a span of 50 years totaling over 30,000 geets and ghazals, whose popularity
among the masses shot him to pinnacles of glory and made him Pakistan’s supreme
specialist in the art of Ghazals.
This legend vocalist gave to ghazals’ performance a new tune and tenor never
heard before by the lovers of music, who got enchanted and simply turned mad for
Mehdi’s songs all over.
Mehdi Hassan has now taken Karachi as his permanent abode and when
ever he visited Lahore he (Medhi Hassan) spent most of his time with his sons,
daughters and other family members.
The art and artist in any society are valued as cultural heritage, whose due
care and protection are attributes of civilised nations. Mehdi Hassan now cannot
sing, but we have to keep his art alive for the next generations, report added.
