Bappi Lahiri Started Playing Tabla At The Age of 3 Years, Holds 3 World Records For His Strong Singing Skills
Who doesn’t know Bappi Lahiri, he is someone who needs no introduction today. He is popularly known as the ‘Gold Man’ of the country. The legendary singer passed away in the year 2022. In his career spanning over four decades, Bappi Da has composed more than 5 thousand songs in more than 500 films which were hits as well. Almost everyone knows him for his singing style and song but only a few of them know that he holds a world record as well.
Bappi Lahiri
Yes, we are telling you right, in the year 1986, his name was recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records for one of his registered songs. Apart from this achievement, two more world records are also registered in his name. Bappi Lahiri composed songs in Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Gujarati, Punjabi, Oriya, and even Bhojpuri and Assamese. He was Kishore Kumar’s nephew by relation and started playing tabla at the age of just 3 years.
Bappi Lahiri
Let us tell you that Bappi Lahiri was born in a Bengali Brahmin family and his parents were famous Bengali singers and musicians. He was not only a music composer and singer, but he was also an actor and very few people know that Bappi Lahiri worked in ‘Badhti Ka Naam Daadi’, ‘Main Aur Mrs Khanna’, ‘It’s Rocking: Dard-e-Disco’ and ‘Masaba Masaba Season 2’.
Bappi Lahiri
According to ‘The World Book of Records’, Bappi Lahiri was the first person who brought disco beats to Indian cinema and entertained the audience. According to one of the media houses, when Bappi Da was once going to Delhi, he bumped into actor Raj Kumar on the flight and started talking to him. Let us tell you that Bappi Lahiri recorded 180 songs in about 33 films in the year 1986 which made him create a world record.
