Kolkata, Aug 4 (PTI) Tracing back his association with the legendary playback singer Kishore Kumar on his 88th birthday, Indian disco king Bappi Lahiri today said he would forever cherish the duets rendered with the mercurial songman. Describing Kishore Kumar as the man with a golden heart, Lahiri said, "Kishoreda was the epitome of the best Bengali gayak(singer) and nayak(actor) combined together." "If the Sera Bengali icon crown has to be conferred on someone with a mass base, in recent times it cannot be anyone but Kishore Kumar," he said. Abhijeet also pointed out that every singer, who has the calibre to make a mark, ultimately creates his own genre of music and his own trademark style like Kishore Kumar." Singer Kumar Sanu, who during the early stage of his career had delivered a Bengali chart buster "Amar Shilpi Tumi Kishore Kumar" said, "All of us have been influenced by a versatile singer like Kishore Kumar but he himself had inspired us to grow out of the mentors style to evolve and grow."

Source: India Today August 04, 2017 07:52 UTC