Money was hard to come by for the dislocated family, and 20 year old Mehdi Hassan was forced to work in a bicycle shop and then as a car and tractor mechanic. The family migrated to Pakistan after Partition. His father and uncle were dhrupad singers, and the young Mehdi Hassan sang dhrupad and kheyal in his first concert. He had been ill for almost 12 years, suffering from lung, chest and urinary tract diseases.īorn in 1927 in a Rajasthani village called Luna, Mehdi Hassan Khan was the 18th generation of a family of musicians hailing from the Kalawant clan. ![]() Mehdi Hassan, also known as the Shahanshah-e-Ghazal, died in a private Karachi hospital today.
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