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Mukesh was an Indian male artist active from 1940 until his death in 1976. Born in 1923, he was associated with the bollywood, filmi, and hindi genres. His musical career is categorized under tags including bollywood, Hindi, Indian, and old hindi.
The name Mukesh is also linked to the author Mukesh Kumar, who has 24 works listed in Open Library. These include titles such as "Basel Mission Between Switzerland, Germany a - Entangled Histories from Conversion to Commerce" and "Advances in Metrology." Additionally, Crossref lists five works under this name.
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Key facts
- Born
- Mukesh Chand Mathur , ( 1923-07-22 ) 22 July 1923, Delhi , British India
- Died
- 27 August 1976 (1976-08-27) (aged 53), Detroit , Michigan , U.S.
- Other names
- Voice of the Millennium, Tragedy King
- Occupation
- Playback singer
- Years active
- 1940–1976
- Spouse
- Saral Trivedi Raichand ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1946 )
- Children
- 5, including Nitin Mukesh
- Relatives
- Mathur family
- Awards
- 1 National Film Awards 3 Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards 4 Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Dominion of India
- Place of birth
- New Delhi
- Place of death
- Detroit
- Child
- Nitin Mukesh
- Occupation
- film producer
- Educated at
- Hindu College, University of Delhi
- Religion
- Hinduism
- Genre
- bhajan
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- Mukesh 2016 stamp of India.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1923-01-01
- date of death
- 1976-08-27
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- name in native language
- मुकेश
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- Mukesh Chand Mathur
- start of work period
- 1940-00-00
- end of work period
- 1976-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Mukesh Chand Mathur (22 July 1923 – 27 August 1976), better known mononymously as Mukesh, was an Indian playback singer. He is considered to be one of the most popular and acclaimed playback singers of the Hindi film industry. Among the numerous nominations and awards he won, his song "Kai Baar Yuhi Dekha Hai" from the film Rajnigandha (1973) won him the National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer.
Mukesh was also popular as being the voice of actors Raj Kapoor, Manoj Kumar, Feroz Khan, Sunil Dutt and Dilip Kumar.
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