Md. Raffi
Born on December 24, 1924 at Kolta Sultan village in Punjab.He started learning under Khan Abdul Wajeed Khan, Jeewan Lal Matto and Gulshan Ali Khan at the age of 14. His debut as a singer was in a Punjabi film Gul Baloch in 1944 with the music director Shyam Sunder. But his real mentor in music was legendary music director Naushad who gave him his break when Rafi arrived in Bombay in Pehle Aap in 1944 itself.
Not many people know that had acted in couple of films Laila Majnu (1945) and Jugnu (1947). Rafi sang more than 26,000 songs in all the national languages in his forty years long career in the film industry.