HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - History was made Sunday in a storied race from Molokai to Oahu. As Ihilani Vaa took first place and became the first team from Tahiti to win the coveted Na Wahine O Ke Kai ...

MOHAMMAD Rafi, the legendary play-back singer, died this day 45 years ago, but his art and craft continue to be as alive today as they ever were. Moving from Lahore to the then Bombay in the early ...

Indian film music has always and will always have a varied range of music to create and support the story being told onscreen. From ballads to heartstopping dramatic pieces to full-on dance party ...

The golden-voiced Mohammad Rafi’s birth centenary falls on December 14, 2024. Shoma A. Chatterji offers a brief glimpse into the life and times of this legend of Indian film music in a year-end ...

Dilip Kumar, in his memoir The Substance and the Shadow (2014), recalls an incident from 1962, soon after the conflict at the Indo-China border, where he and Mohd Rafi were present to entertain the ...

New Delhi, Dec 24 (PTI) The anguish of “Yeh Duniya Agar Mil Bhi Jaye” and the lilting playfulness of “Sar Jo Tera Chakraye”, one filmed on the intense Guru Dutt and the other on a goofy Johnny Walker, ...

"We had some good times together," recalled the legendary Lata Mangeshkar once about Rafi. "We had our little differences. But he was a very simple and uncorrupted man." Rafi had a strong command over ...

Back in the early 1970s, during the black n' white Doordarshan era, one often saw actor Bharat Bhushan in the song ‘Man Tadapat’ from the 1952 film ‘Baiju Bawra’. Over time, the other details became ...

Mumbai, Dec 24 (UNI) Exactly 100 years back on this day was born a singing colossus whose mellifluous voice transcended the barriers of language and time to leave an indelible mark on the cultural ...

Mumbai, Dec 23 (PTI) Lunch, a Coke and then to the studio. Other singers may have worried about a sore throat but not his father, the “god gifted” Mohammed Rafi, a man of simple tastes who didn’t like ...