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Mehdi Hassan

By Ustad Ghulam Haider Khan

Mehdi Hassan was no different. A young, relatively unknown singer at the time, he had nothing to lean on in his new homeland. He started a cycle repair shop. Within the year he had upgraded it to a motor mechanic’s workshop. Determined though he was to survive, Mehdi didn’t give up his passion for music: it is said that he would drive a tractor along the Punjabi fields under the setting sun, and use the machine’s persistent drone as a kind of background music against which to practice his sur. Keeping his voice steady on that impossibly bumpy tractor must have removed every extraneous quiver from his voice!

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