Kishore Kumar is immortally eternal: Ali Zafar

In a recent conversation about music, Ali Zafar shared his list of favourite singers with us. “Internationally, I love Roger Waters for his music and the way he propagates social awareness. I also like Sting, Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Jeff Buckley.
Within India, it’s Kishore Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar. There are people who belong to this planet and there are people who are beyond that and therefore, immortally eternal.Kishore Kumar iss duniya ke nahi the. You can feel the emotion by the way he connects with you. The way he sang cannot be learnt, it can only be felt. Lataji for her purity and where you can see Hindustani music ki shudhta. Within Pakistan, Mehdi Hassan Khan sahab. I am the shagird of one of his shagirds. There was no milawat in his singing. Some people show off a lot. But his greatness was in the simplicity of his music,” he says.