Kishore Kumar

Kishore Kumar strikes me as the rarest kind of genius: the untrained one who outsings everybody. He could yodel, switch voices mid-song, and carry the emotional weight of Indian cinema's golden era on his vocal cords alone. What I love most is the playfulness — you can hear a man having fun in every recording, and that joy is why his songs outlive trends. Add directing, composing, and producing to the resume and you get an artist who refused to stay in one box. Nearly four decades after his death, he remains the default voice of Bollywood nostalgia, and deservedly so.

Name (English)

Kishore Kumar

Name (Japanese)

キショール・クマール

Reading

きしょーる・くまーる

Born

August 4, 1929 – October 13, 1987

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Snake

Origin

Khandwa, Khandwa district, India

Occupation

singer / composer / film director / musician / film producer

Awards & achievements

• Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB

Tags

• Khandwa district
• singer
• composer
• film director

Last updated

2026-06-11

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.