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Top 10 singers from India and Pakistan

Foozee said:
bhimsen joshi aint famous..coz he sucks lol
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LOL Says a guy who has Hetfield as his DP. If Hetfield could be as half as good as Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, then probably he'd not resort to so many aahs and oohs in during the intertwined harmonizations in a song.... Heck forget Bhimsen Joshi, if Hetfield were even half as good as Mustaine or Dickinson , he'd have been bloody awesome ...
 
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Cryin Out Loud said:
It's not just an Indian culture specific thing, though. Commercial/ Popular music tends to dominate traditional/ classical music in terms of reach. Look at the Western tradition.
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Yes i am mostly speaking for the non south indian belt with my generalization of course.

I guess the reason movie music never got big in Pak is because the movie industry never got a chance to flourish thanks to bollywood.
 
violet_may said:
I personally don't like female singers with the high pitched adolescent type voice...like asha+lata. Sorry folks.
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Do you think that they, in some ways, mis-represent females or, at least, mis-represent a facet of womanhood as they add something abnormal or unachievable to the Utopian idea of perfect woman?

I mean, nobody ever meets a woman who talks like a cuckoo but people keep listening to songs where the female singer sings that way, leading to some kind of aberration in the idea of what is supposed to be a good voice.
 
Who so special about Lata and Asha??--both are so overrated in Pakistan and India. Especially Asha, her voice (and attitude) is just awful.
 
I can't name all ten but few... I am a Southi so usually bias exists... only for playback/folk/ghazal singing...not classical music... without any particular order...

K.J.Yesudas...

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S.P.B...

Daler Mehndi...

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Kishore Kumar...

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Lata jee...

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Rafi saab...

Manna dey

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Jagjit Singh jee...

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accross the boarder...

Atif Aslam

Nusrat fateh ali khan saab...

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Sanam Marvi

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Shahid Afridi's Fan said:
Who so special about Lata and Asha??--both are so overrated in Pakistan and India. Especially Asha, her voice (and attitude) is just awful.
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don't go by her recent songs, her voice has'nt aged well,, her songs from the good ol days were amazing.

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you can't compare anyone with Nusrat
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Anuradha Paudwal......KK.....Mohit Chauan....Javed Ali...Mohammad Irfan...Kumar Sanu...Lata...Alka ....

Rahat fateh Ali Khan, Nusrat fateh Ali Khan, Nazia hasan, Shafqat Amanat Ali, Atif Aslam (if not live), Nayara Noor ....

That's about it.
 
Mohammed Rafi FTW...no singer comes close to his greatness...not even nusrat(that's my opinion
 
Mohit Chauhan is one great, great voice:14:!
 
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according to me,from India;
mohammad rafi
kishore kumar
kJ Yesudas
sonu nigam
chitra
shreya goshal.

From pakistan;
rahat fateh ali khan
atif aslam.
 
You can't compare singers of different styles. For mastery of different styles, bollywood singers would take the crown but if you want to make a list of specialist then not many bollywood singers would cut the cake.

I would like to throw in Abida Parveen into the mix. Up there with NFAK in getting the crowd going.
 
Kishore Kumar/ Mohd Rafi.. cant rate who is better
Kumar Sanu
Shreya Ghoshal
Manna Dey
Hemant Kumar
Bappi Lahiri
Abhijeet

from Pakistan
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Rahat Ali
hate atif aslam
 
I think currently Ustad Rashid Khan is best singer of the world. He is in a class where NO other singer in today's world can even match the dust of his shoes.
 
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Some from PAK I like (totally subjective, as guys like Bilal Maqsood are not the 'technically' most impressive vocals)

Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan

Ataullah Khan (the greatest Punjabi singer right now IMHO)

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Tina Sani

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Mehdi Hassan

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Sajjad Ali

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Junaid Jamshed

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Bilal Maqsood from Strings

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Ali Noor from Noori (listen from 4:07 onwards! That's what I call a powerful voice)

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Umair Jaswal from the band Qayaas

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Faraz Haider (latest 'discovery', one of the best English songs to come out of PAK watan :umarakmal)
 
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Top ten who comes to my mind in no perticular order
Kishore Kumar , Rafi , Mukesh , Manna Dey ,Hemant Kumar ,Lata ,Asha ,KL Sehgal ,Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan , Noor Jahan
 
- Mehdi hassan
- Nusrat
- Neyara Noor
- Sajjad Ali
- Shabnam Majeed
- Shafqat Ammanat ali
- Ustaad Ammanat ali
- Noor Jehan
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Top 10 Singers From India

1.M S Subbulakshmi
2.M L Vasantha kumari
3.Latha Mangeshkar
4.Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao
5.K J Jesudas
6.Mohammad Rafi
7.D K Pattammal
8.P Susheela
9.S Janaki
10.S P Balasubramaniam
 
Currently from pak singers I like atif aslam (amazingly powerful voice!)
Mohit Chauhan is very good too.
Also liked kumar sanu's songs
 
These days it has to be Shafqat Amanat Ali and A.R Rahman
 
These are more current singers I listen to all the time.

1) Rahat fateh ali khan
2) sonu nigam
3) shafqat amanat ali
4) KK
5) shreya goshal
6) Arjiit singh
7) Atif Aslam
8) Quratulain Balouch
9) Adnan Sami
10) JAL the band
 
Always loved hearing Mohammad Rafi and Kishore Kumar as well as Mukesh, Mahendra Kapoor.
Below are my favourite singers:
South Indian Singers:
S P Balasubramanyam
K J Yesudas
S Janaki

Kumar Sanu
Udit Narayan
Sonu Nigam
K S Chitra
Alka Yajnik
Shreya Ghoshal

SPB(S P Balasubrahmanya) is a great singer. the Hindi audience may not like the southern hits generally. yet some songs are so capturing..
S P Balasubramanyam
 
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sherlock89 said:
Sonu Nigam is the best singer in the sub continent.
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Not even. He's an excellant singer, but won't
call him the best. His voice turns in to a shrill at high notes.

Although if someone has gone through his renditions of Rafi's songs, you can't help but admire his versatility.


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Personal Favorites:

All-time: Mohd Rafi
Current/New Gen - KK, Mohit Chauhan


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Lata and Mohammad Rafi are great singers but Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is the Sultan.

Rest (eastern or western) can't be compared to this man

Imran Khan, Amitabh Bachan, Mick Jagger and Nusrat
 
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lilFlip said:
Lata and Mohammad Rafi are great singers but Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is the Sultan.

Rest (eastern or western) can't be compared to this man

Imran Khan, Amitabh Bachan, Mick Jagger and Nusrat
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Styles/techniques of opera singers are different from those of blues/rock singers which are again different from Indian/Pakistani singers. You can hardly compare.
 
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I am Pakistani but I love Rafi, Kishore, Lata, Kumar Sanu

Also recently I have heard songs of south Indian singer Yesudas (hindi songs) His voice is very good, specially sad songs
 
NFAK(Gorakh Dhanda)
Lata G (Mere Khwabo mai jo aye)
Mehdi Hasan
Attaullah ( Idhar zindagi ka)
Alka (Choli k peche)
Sanu Da (tum DIl Ki)
Rahat (tujhe dekh dekh
Kishore (Tera Sath hai kitna pyara)
Udit (Ae meri zindagi
 
NFAK, Rafi Sahib, Kishoreda, Mohtharma Lata, Asha Bhosle, Nur Jahan, Mehndi Hassan, Ghulam Ali, Atif Aslam, Mukesh.
Attaullah Khan Esakhelvi is 12th man:)
 
Pankaj Udhas is another fine singer. He has a nice soothing voice but for some reason is ignored by most.
 
1. Pankaj Udas
2. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
3. Abrar ul Haq
4. Shreya Ghoshal
5. Arijit Singh
7. Atif Aslam
8. Rahat Fateh Ali
9. Ankit Tivari
10. Palak Muchal

Pakistan Regional singers:

1. Rahim Shah (Pashto, Punjabi, Urdu)
2. Zek Afridi (Pashto, Urdu)
3. Musharaf Bangash (Pashto)
4. Waheed Achakzai (Pashto)
5. Sardar Takar (Pashto)
6. Shazia Khush (Sindhi,balochi)
7. Attaullah esakhailwi (Saraiki, urdu)
8. Hadiqa kyani (Punjabi, Pashto, Urdu)
9. Irfan Khan (Pashto)
10. Amanat Ali (Urdu, punjabi)
 
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Most of the lists here would make sense only if you were limiting the discussion to Hindi/Urdu language music.

You are doing a huge disrespect to singers who managed to make their mark even outside the comfort song of their native languages, while being the absolute best in theirs.

People like Yesudas, SPB , K.S Chitra and Lata and Asha to a smaller extend have managed that .

Among the present generation nobody holds a candle to Shreya Ghosal in that regard. She has won national awards singing in Bengali, Hindi and Marathi and has won numerous accolades singing in Tamil and Malayalam, two totally unrelated languages from Hindustani music belonging to a completely different language family. These two languages are traditionally considered the toughest to learn/sing in by northern singers and very few have made decent attempts.

She has songs in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Assamese, Nepali, Oriya, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Urdu and Tulu ! Imagine the skill required to simply get the enunciation right in such diverse languages, let alone the ragaas and swars. Shreya Nails it in almost all of the languages, she's a freak talent.
 
I can't stand Atif Aslam

My list of top 10 of all time from both countries is

1) Rafi/Kishore
2) Kishore/Rafi
3) Nusrat
4) Asha Bhosle
5) Lata
6) Mehdi Hasan
7) Mukesh
8) Sonu Nigam
9) Rahat
10) Sajjad Ali
 
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1) Nusrat saab

then the rest

No singer has the soft texture and intensity he had.
 
Nusrat
Mehdi hasan
Abida parveen
Rahat ali
Javed bashir

Not a fan of noor jehan... She used to be on PTV every morning before school...
 
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