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Bappi Lahiri
real name Alokesh Lahiri
Kolkata, India · 1952-11-27 – 2022-02-15
Bappi Lahiri is credited on 1,289 pressings across 286 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1974–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
1,289
Credits
286
Albums
6
Decades active
105
In collections
Biography
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Indian musician, composer and playback singer, born 27 November 1952 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India, died 15 February 2022 in Mumbai, India.
He was a son, a famous Bengali singer and Bansari, a musician and a singer who was well-versed in classical music. His parents trained him in every aspect of music. He began to play the tabla at the tender age of three.
Bappi Lahiri started as a music director for a Bengali film with 19 and popularized the use of synthesized disco music in Indian cinema. He was the pioneer of disco beats in India and is widely recognized throughout India as the sole originator. He is widely known as the "Disco King" in India, even today. Bappi Lahiri was the most popular music director in the 1980s in Bollywood.
He has been known to sing duets with Mohammed Rafi and Kishore Kumar. He has also worked with renowned singers like Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle. Bappi Lahiri is also known to be accredited with providing newcomers with opportunities in the Hindi film industry.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
1,289 releases · 286 albums · active 1974–2026
- Other credits · 1,563
- Performance · 126
- Production · 3
Studios: Chalice Recording Studios · Sunny Super Sounds · HMV Studios, Bombay · Abbey Road Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Anand Milind
- Anu Malik
- Laxmikant Pyarelal
- Kishore Kumar
- Asha Bhosle
- Yesudas
- Babla
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