Please listen to him.’ Mehdi Sahab was dismissive.
My father’s friend said to him, ‘This is Talat Aziz. “I didn’t want to, but finally I gave in and went. A friend of my father’s told me to accompany him to where Mehdi Sahab was staying,” Talat Aziz said. “In Canada, I met Mehdi Sahab for the first time. He also got the opportunity to meet one of the men whose ghazals first drew his attention, the Pakistani legend Mehdi Hassan, who is also known as the Shehenshah-e-Ghazal. I swam.”Īn abortive move to Bombay, “the city of dreams,” once again put Talat Aziz in a dejected mood, but when a relative invited him to move to Canada, things began to change for the better. It was like throwing a non-swimmer into the sea and telling him to swim. “When I went on stage, I had the fright of my life,” he said. In 1975, his fame increased after he sang ghazals for more than 10,000 people at an international Urdu conference organized by Siyasat newspaper in Hyderabad. I started pursuing music seriously and by the mid-1970s when I was in college I had attained a measure of fame in the city.” I got so frustrated that one fine morning, I gave up on cricket completely and so ghazal singing became my only passion, my only creative outlet and my only refuge. But there were things that made me lose interest and become disillusioned. “I really wanted to make cricket my career. Everybody had some kind of interest in the game,” said Talat Aziz.
Ironically, the young Talat Aziz had career aspirations other than ghazal in those days. And the guests would invariably say: ‘Oh, he has a good voice.’” I sang at my parents’ literary meetings and they encouraged me. It was in such an environment that I grew up. It was there that grand mushairas were organized. One of my relatives donated all his property for the promotion of Urdu and, in fact, one of the buildings came to be known as Urdu Hall. “In addition to the regular meetings, famous guests in the city who were there for mushairas would come to our house. “Among those who came to our old-style house on Hyderabad’s Liberty Road were famous Urdu poets such as Shaaz Tamkanat and Jan Nisar Akhtar (lyricist Javed Akhtar’s father) and famous Bollywood singer Talat Mahmood,” Talat Aziz said. Such gatherings exposed him to a variety of artists, from poets and humorists to musicians and composers. There were no formal invitations to such gatherings. “As a child, I remember how we had literary gatherings - I will not call them mehfilen adabi nashisten is more appropriate - at home,” said Talat Aziz. Talat Aziz, whose career spans three decades, hundreds of performances, and dozens of hit records and Bollywood soundtracks, was well received not only by the South Asian community in Saudi Arabia but also by Arabs, many of whom were experiencing this distinctly Subcontinental musical form for the first time.įollowing a concert in Jeddah, Talat Aziz took some time from his schedule to talk about ghazal, his long career and his start in the 1960s in Hyderabad, when his father, Abdul Azeem Khan, and his mother, author Sajida Abid, instilled in him a love of the arts. Source: Talat Aziz and Sonu Nigam duet TALAT AZIZ SINGS CHAHENGE TUJHE PAR Kabhi Yun Bhi Aa, Talat Aziz, Ghazal TALAT AZIZ SINGS RANJISH HI SAHI Aye Mohabbat Tere Anjaam Pe Rona aaya – Talat Aziz.DURING recent India Week celebrations in Saudi Arabia, a number of music-lovers from the Indian Subcontinent had a rare opportunity to watch the 51-year-old ghazal singer Talat Aziz perform at various functions in Riyadh and Jeddah. Though he was nervous at his first performance in front of audience yet he performed well. He sung Kaise Sukoon Paoon and some ghazals by noted shaayars of Hyderabad.
His first major performance was in Hyderabad at a place called King Kothi. On many occasions, like on a concert tour of the US and Canada in 1986 he shared the same stage with him on concerts in India and abroad. He was trained primarily by Ustad Samad Khan and later by Ustad Fayaz Ahmed who were famous classical music singers.Īfter the initial training, Talat decided to learn music from music maestro Mehdi Hassan. Talat Aziz took his initial training in music from Kirana Gharana. This greatly influenced him and started learning music from an early age. His family loved fine arts and used to organize Mehfils in their house, inviting artists and poets like Jagjit Singh, Jan Nisaar Akhtar the father of the famous writer Javed Akhtar to name a few. He went to Hyderabad Public School till the 12th standard when he finished his ISC and then joined The Indian Institute of Management and Commerce for his B’Com(Hons) Course. Talat Aziz (born 11th Nov, 1956) is a popular ghazal singer from Hyderabad, India.īorn in Hyderabad, India to Abdul Azeem Khan and Sajida Abid, a famous Urdu writer and poet.