Kundan lal saigal madan mohan biography
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K.L. Saigal
1904-1947
Kundan Lal Saigal was a singer, and actor in the early days of the Indian cinema. He is generally acknowledged to be the first Bollywood superstar. In his 15 year career, he acted and sang in 36 feature films, a number of shorts, and numerous of disks.
K.L. Saigal was born April 11, 1904 in Nawa Shahar in Jammu. His father was named Amar Chand and he worked in the service of the Raja of Jammu and Kashmir. His mother was named Kesar Bai. Kundan was one of five children.
Formal music education was not easily obtainable in those days. The obstacles of class, community, and economics kept many people from having such benefits. Saigal too felt these obstacles. Never-the-less, the young Saigal did what ever he could to learn music. Initially it was singing and acting in the local Ram Lilas. He also spent much time at the shrine of the Sufi saint Salamat Yusef, there he sang and practiced along with other musicians and devotees. It is said that as a youth he used to sneak near the house of a local tawaif so that he could hear her sing; afterwords he would imitate what he heard.
As a young man he had several occupations. After he dropped out of school, he worked for a while as
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K. L. Saigal
Musical artist
Kundan Lal Saigal, often abbreviated as K. L. Saigal (11 April 1904 – 18 January 1947), was an Indian singer and actor who worked in Hindi cinema, which was centred in Calcutta (Kolkata) during his time, but is currently based in Bombay (Mumbai).[1][2] Saigal's unique voice quality which was a mixture of baritone and soft tenor was the benchmark for most of the singers who followed him. In fact it remains the gold standard even today shining through very early and practically primitive recording technology. He did not sing songs on which other actors would lip-sync for the camera. It was only towards the very last stages of his career, during 1945 to 1947, that he sang to make studio recordings, and these were for himself as the actor on the screen. Thus, while other singers in Hindi Cinema are playback singers, he was not a playback singer.
Early life
[edit]Saigal was born on 11 April 1904 in Jammu to a Dogra family.[3][4] His father Amarchand Saigal was a tehsildar at the court of the Maharaja Pratap Singh of Jammu and Kashmir, while his mother, Kesarbai Saigal, was a deeply religious Hindu lady who was very fond of music. She used to take her young son to religious functions where bhajan, kirta
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