Mohammad Aziz
| Mohammed Aziz | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Syed Mohammed Aziz-un-Nabi |
| Also known as | Munna |
| Born |
2 July 1954 (age 62) Kolkata, West Bengal |
| Genres | Playback singer |
| Occupation(s) | Singer |
| Years active | 1982–present |
Mohammed Aziz (Bengali: মোহাম্মদ আজিজ) (born 2 July 1954) is an Indian playback singer in the Bollywood, Bengali and Odia film industries.
His nickname is Munna and his real name is Syed Mohammed Aziz-un-Nabi. Being an ardent lover of music and Mohammed Rafi, he started singing from childhood.
Aziz made his film debut in a Bengali language film, Jyoti. He came to Mumbai in 1984, with references from a producer's relative. His first Hindi film was Ambar (1984).
Aziz started out his musical career as a singer in the restaurant Ghalib in Kolkata. He got a break when the music director Anu Malik got him to sing the song Mard Taangewala for the movie Mard, starring Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan. People thought it was a Shabbir Kumar's song and the song became a hit and Aziz became a popular singer, and was patronised by leading music directors including Kalyanji-Anandji, Laxmikant-Pyarelal, Rahul Dev Burman, Naushad, O. P. Nayyar, Bappi Lahiri, Rajesh Roshan, Usha Khanna, Anand-Milind, Nadeem-Shravan, Jatin Lalit, Anu Malik, Damodar Raao, Anand Raj Anand and Aadesh Shrivastava.
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