1. Mahendra Kapoor was born in Amritsar, but soon moved to Bombay.
10 Facts About Mahendra Kapoor
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Mahendra Kapoor started learning classical music under classical singers like Pt.
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Mahendra Kapoor had a very large vocal range, and he is sometimes known as The Vibrant Voice of India.
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Mahendra Kapoor was the first Indian playback singer to record music in English.
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Mahendra Kapoor was asked by the group Boney M to sing their songs in Hindi with Musarat from Pakistan, which resulted in the Pop Album M-3.
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Mahendra Kapoor was married and had three daughters and one son.
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Mahendra Kapoor's son Rohan Kapoor is an actor and singer, who acted in a few films in the 1980s such as Yash Chopra's Faasle and Love 86, and Prakash Mehra's Imandaar, and later did stage shows together with his father.
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On September 27,2008, Mahendra Kapoor died following a cardiac failure at his home in Mumbai, aged 74.
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Mahendra Kapoor was survived by his wife, children, children-in-law and grandchildren.
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Mahendra Kapoor remained as one of the most popular singers in Bollywood who has given his voice to almost all of the popular heroes and leading well known actors.