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Bhupinder and Mitalee Singh are one of the more famous ghazal couples.

Bhupinder was born in Amritsar. His father, Prof Natha Singh, was a professor of music. He got his break early in 1963 when he sang for the film Haqeeqat, along with Mohd Rafi and Talat Mahmood. The song, Hoke majboor mujhe, was quite a hit. He continues to sing sporadically for the films.

His first Ghazal album was released in 1978 and has since then released several ghazal albums. He is very well versed with the Spanish guitar and has worked as a studio artist playing the guitar for several years. He played for almost all songs tuned by R.D. Burman.

His ghazals are characterized by a heavy influence of western chords, guitars and western drums. Perhaps he was the first to move away from ghazals as a form of light classical music. While that made ghazals more popular, it also made ghazals indistinguishable from film songs.

Mitalee Singh was born in Bangladesh to a musical family. She came to India on a government scholarship to study classical music in Baroda. She is a desciple of Pandit Shiv Kumar Shukla, a wizard of Bhendi Bazar Gharana. Around 1976 she got interested in Ghazals. In 1983 she married Bhupinder one of her favourite Ghazal singers.

Since then they have been singing together for several joint albums and live concerts.

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