Along with Kalyanji Veerji Shah, he introduced electronic music to Bollywood.
Along with Kalyanji Veerji Shah, he introduced electronic music to Bollywood.
Brother of Ashok Kumar and Anoop Kumar.
Died on the birthday of his eldest brother Ashok Kumar.
Had a misunderstanding with Amitabh Bachchan in the mid 1980s. He refused to sing for Amitabh when Amitabh refused to act in a movie produced by Kishore. Amitabh then faced his worst phase in his career after this. He later made a comeback several years later with Kaun Banega Crorepati.
Has sung 327 duets with Lata Mangeshkar. At 440, only Mohammad Rafi has sung more duets with Lata.
In the film Zamana (1985) Kishore sang the solo songs for both the male heroes Rajesh Khanna and Rishi Kapoor but in the duets between the heroes, Kishore very specifically told that he would sing only the lines which the character played by Rajesh Khanna would be required to sing in the film.So Mohd.Aziz and Hariharan became the voice of Rishi Kapoor in the film for the songs Kisko Kahe Hum and Tal Betal Sara Jiwan respectively .
Kishore Kumar had declared that if he is offered any film as a playback singer , with main lead as Rajesh Khanna and another actor, then he would lend his voice only to Rajesh Khanna and not to the other lead hero in case of a duet between the two characters of the lead heroes in the film and that all solos picturised on Rajesh Khanna will have his voice as the playback.
Kishore Kumar's best friends from the Hindi Film industry were R.D.Burman and Rajesh Khanna. The trio together worked in 32 films. Kishore sang for Rajesh Khanna in a record of 91 films. The most number of films for which a singer has sung for a particular actor is 91 films, which was sung by Kishore for Superstar Rajesh Khanna.
Kishore learnt yodeling by listening to his brother Anoop Kumar's Austrian records.
Learnt yodeling by listening to his brother Anoop Kumar's Austrian records.
Was a big fan of Alfred Hitchcock films.