Mohammed Vakil was born on January 25, 1976 at Jaipur (Rajasthan) in the family of renowned classical Ghazal singers, who made their original contributions to the ghazal tradition.Even before he was five years, Vakil became conscious of his singing skills. But it was only after his first stage performance in 1985 at the very young age of eight years, that the music bug bit hard his talent. The young boy was so moved by the episode that he made a firm decision to take up music professionally.
His singing talent was nurtured and nourished by rigorous training and Riaz since his early childhood under the very able guidance and continuous motivation provided by his maternal uncles renowned Ghazal maestros Ustad Mohammed Hussain and Ustad Ahmed Hussain, who possess extremely significant place in making Vakil what he is today. For Vakil his Ustads (the Hussain brothers) are second to Almighty on this earth.
From his first ghazal album Sapne released in 1998, Vakil has released two more albums since then. In all his albums he has always tried to present ghazals in a manner more appealing to the masses yet maintaining the essence of ghazals. Since singing ghazals by itself is a very limited area with very little scope for innovativeness, Vakil has tried to use the little scope to the best as he could. In the process he has given the world of music some amazing ghazals, which will remain in the hearts of music lovers for time immemorial.
Then he started a journey for an identity in the film world. He was fortunate to get his first break in a film called Veer Zara released in 2006. And then life took a right turn for the youngster. Mohammed Vakil found his destiny.
The innovativeness of Mohd. Vakil is depicted in intermingling the western and eastern instruments. But even then he has succeeded to maintain ‘Ragdari’ and ‘Roohdari’ in his presentation. The ghazal is a challenging form featuring both structure and improvisation to fill out an ensemble capable of both delicacy and powerMohd. Vakil entered the hive of creative activity looking for words for his music and he was not disappointed.
Mohamad Vakil had performed in various prestigious programmes. He has also participated in different compititions that is why he got honour to present his art and able to perform in front of different personalities from Sangeet Jagat.He performed in front of The renouwnd personalities such as :
• Lata Mangeshkar Ji,• Pandit Jasraj Ji, • Anil Biswas ji, • Naushad Saheb, • Jagjit Singh ji, • Kalyanji-Anandji Bhai, • O.P. Nayyar Saheb,
• Khayyam Sahebb, • Madhurani ji, • Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasiya ji,• Pankaj Udhas ji,• Talat Aziz ji, • Bhupendra-Mitali ji and • Kavita Krishnamurti ji.
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