Manna Dey, who sang scores of Hindi songs during the heyday of Bollywood, died Oct. 23 in Bangalore, India. He was 94 and had been ailing for some time. Dey broke into the Hindi film biz under the ...
The celebrated composer of the 1940s and 1950s brought a unique blend of Indian ragas and Western instruments to Hindi cinema. His melodies, including songs from Albela and the patriotic classic Ae ...
Jazz music has been an integral part of the Hindi movie industry since the early 1950s, an era that is also referred to as the Golden Age of film music. The unmistakable strains of the woodwind ...