New Delhi: Add an amazing singing voice to phenomenal acting talent and you have a performer who bordered on the genius. And like most geniuses he was notoriously eccentric! That's Kishore Kumar but for wife Leena Chandravarkar he was also a magician of sorts.
"He used to energise people around him. He was like an angel or you can say a magician of sorts. He meant a lot to me," Leena Chandravarkar said.
Kishore Kumar yodelled his way into Bollywood in the 1950s and changed Bollywood playback singing forever.
He added freshness and exuberance to playback singing and was instrumental in introducing electronic music to Bollywood.
"He knew how to get completely involved in his songs. My father’s contribution to making good music with music directors was simply unique," Singer and Kishore Kumar's son, Amit Kumar said.
Kishore Kumar inspired more playback singers than any other.
Many of today's leading singers including Kumar Sanu, Abhijeet and Babul Supriyo started their careers as 'copy singers' of Kishore Kumar.
Interestingly, Kishore Kumar also started his career imitating KL Saigal but adopted his unique style of singing on the advice of music director SD Burman. And the rest as they is history.
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