MULTAN, Jun 14 (APP): Pride of performance melodious singer Ghulam Abbas said that peerless Mehdi Hassan Khan is widely considered one of the greatest Ghazal singers who gave a new lease to it.
Best known as Shahenshah-i-Ghazal, Mehdi Hassan gave honour to this type of music and blew an innovative spirit into it, the living legend Ghulam Abbas said while addressing a tribute titled “Tumko ek shaks yaad aayega” by the Multan Arts Council here on Tuesday night.
He reminisced that the music maestro was unique for his melodic patterns and maintaining the integrity of the ragas in a novel way, who brought Ghazal singing to audiences worldwide.
Abbas, who received a standing ovation on his arrival at the stage, stated that Ghazal was part of books before Khan Sahib and it was none other than him who made it much popular. He sang everything with a proper accent of words.
He inspired a generation of singers from diverse genres and was the leading playback singer of Pakistan film industry, the Nigar Award winner stated.
He noted that he had never gone to India for singing despite attractive offers because he had been singing for 25 years with legendary Mehdi Hassan and Melody Queen Noor Jehan who had no comparison in their field.
Later, Ghulam Abass sang beautiful songs of Mehdi Hassan which included: Sath humara toote na, Jab koe payar sy bulayega, aj tusi gae mil, Aap ko bhool jain hum, Jis din sy dekha hai tum ko sanam and shola tha jul bhoja hoon.
Local singers Adeel Mazhar, Shahab Khan,Neebela Aslam, Hadiya Hashmi, Khalil Guggar and Fayyaz Bokhari also gave solo performances and sang duets of Mehdi Hassan.
