Shahanshah-e-Ghazal Mehdi Hassan who had ruled the world of music for half a century is losing speaking power fast, according to a private TV channel report on Saturday.
His voice and unique performance skills in 'Ghazal gaiki' were unmatched in world of music. This great icon of music world being caught in the midst of inevitable aging afflictions is reported to be fast losing his voice.
The 60s and 70s could be justifiably named to be Mehdi Hassan's decades, as hardly there was one hero of the cine-world on whom Mehdi Hassan's song was not filmed.
The maestro, who kept the music lovers captivated with thousands of geets and ghazals and captured the imagination of listeners world-wide, was born in Jaipur, Rajasthan.
The King of Ghazal started his career from Radio Pakistan in 1952 by singing the hit ghazal "Gulo may rang bharay bad-e-nau bahar chalay". And, thereafter, he never looked behind but went on singing one hit after the other over a span of 50 years totalling over 30,000 geets and ghazals, whose popularity among the masses shot him to pinnacles of glory and made him Pakistan's supreme vocalist.