To beat the pandemic blues, standard playback singer and music composer Amit Kumar has introduced out a sequence of re-recorded digital cowl model of his songs that grew to become superhits within the seventies, eighties and nineties.
The 68-year-old son of legendary Kishore Kumar and Bengali actress and singer Ruma Guha Thakurta mentioned in an announcement on Wednesday that many followers had been requesting him on his Facebook web page to carry out his standard numbers.
Amit Kumar began singing from an early age, acting at Durga Puja festivities right here. After his mom complained that he was singing “filmi” songs, his father determined to take him to Bombay.
He shot to fame with the tune “Bade Acchhe Lagte Hain” for the movie Balika Badhu in 1976. It was named the twenty sixth hottest tune by Binaca Geetmala, a radio present hosted by Ameen Sayani.
Three of his songs, launched as a part of the brand new sequence on Eid, have develop into hits on YouTube.
“Performing on stage is not happening in this current scenario. So I planned to choose my own songs from the requests that everyone wants to listen to and re-recorded some of those songs once again. Now everyone is enjoying listening to them with new-age sound,” Amit Kumar mentioned.
“At first I did ‘Bade Acchhe Lagte Hai’, then ‘Roz Roz Ankhon Tale’ (from the film Jeeva). The first song has got 2 lakh views on my YouTube page already, the second one got one lakh views. There are also some stories behind the songs,” the singer, who had lent his voice to over 350 compositions by RD Burman, mentioned.
His different well-known renditions embrace “Aati Rahengi Baharein” in Kasme Vade, all of the numbers for the 1981 film Love Story, “Laila o Laila” for Qurbani, “Oye Oye Tirchi Topi Waaley” from Tridev, duets like “Tu Rotha Toh Main Ro Doongi Sanam”, “Yun Toh Haseen Hazar” and lots of others.
Amit Kumar sang for nearly all music administrators and actors within the Nineteen Eighties, although he was used extra by R D Burman from 1975 to 1994 and by Bappi Lahiri from 1983-1995.
Citing a dearth of high quality music composition after RD Burmans demise, Kumar withdrew from playback singing and focused on reside orchestra reveals
“Besides my own songs, I also did a series of my favourite Western songs. That was also very much appreciated,” he mentioned.
Since many individuals had needed him to sing his favorite Western numbers as effectively, he determined to do it, the singer mentioned.
“I enjoyed doing it. I have my own compositions too. Kumar Brothers Music will release more songs of mine in the coming days,” he added.
Besides Hindi, Amit Kumar has carried out in Bengali, Bhojpuri, Odia, Assamese, Konkani and Marathi.
