Kishore Kumar

Kishore Kumar (1929-1987) is a Bollywood, Kannada Singer known for the movies Sholay(1975), Kulla Agent 000(1972)

Name	Kishore Kumar (কিশোর কুমার গাঙ্গুলী)
Other Names	Abhas Kumar Ganguly
Date Of Birth	4 August 1929
Age	(Age at Death: 58 years 2 months 9 days)
Place Of Birth	Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh
Date Of Death	13 October 1987
Father	Kunjalal Ganguly(lawyer)
Mother	Gouri Devi
Brothers	Ashok , Anoop(Bollywood actor)
Sister	Sati Devi
Wives	Ruma Guha Thakurta aka Ruma Ghosh(1st, m.1950 to 1958) , Madhubala(1958-) , Yogeeta Bali(1976 to 4 August 1978) , Leena Chandavarkar(1980-1987)
Sons	Amit Kumar(Ruma Guha) , Sumit Kumar(Leena Chandavarkar)
Biography an Indian film playback singer, actor, lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenplay writer and scriptwriter. He is considered one of the most successful playback singers of the Hindi film industry. He sang in many Indian languages including Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Assamese, Gujarati, Kannada, Bhojpuri, Malayalam, Oriya, and Urdu. He has also sung in private albums in several languages especially in Bengali which are noted as all time classics.

Interesting Facts and Trivia

the Madhya Pradesh Government initiated a new award called the "Kishore Kumar Award" for contributions to Hindi cinema.
He was awarded the "Lata Mangeshkar Award" by the Madhya Pradesh government and from that year onwards
He won 8 Filmfare Awards for Best Male Playback Singer and holds the record for winning the most Filmfare Awards in that category.
He won Best Male Playback Singer for 4 times