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Kaifi Azmi
real name Akhtar Hussein Rizvi
Kaifi Azmi is credited on 568 releases across 138 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1956–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
568
Credits
138
Albums
8
Decades active
7
In collections
Biography
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Akhtar Hussein Rizvi, known as Kaifi Azmi, (14 January 1919 – 10 May 2002) was an Indian Urdu poet. He is remembered as the one who brought Urdu literature to Indian motion pictures. Together with Pirzada Qasim, Jon Elia and others he participated in the most memorable mushairas of the twentieth century.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
568 releases · 138 albums · active 1956–2026
- Performance · 711
- Other credits · 18
- Production · 1
Studios: Planet Studios (3) · Frantic Studio · Jasmine Cafe, The Studio · Melody Productions (3)
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Madan Mohan
- Mohd. Rafi
- Hemant Kumar
- Lata Mangeshkar
- Khayyam
- S. D. Burman
- Ghulam Mohammed
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