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1948 -Received a silver medal from the Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, on the first anniversary of the Indian Independence day
1967 - Honored with the Padma Shri by the Government of India.
2001 – Honored with the “Best Singer of the Millennium” by Hero Honda and Stardust magazine.
2013 – Won the CNN-IBN poll for the Greatest Voice in Hindi Cinema
26th Dec 2017 – Rafi sahab is a an “Avataar of Gandharva” Vice president Shri Venkaiah Naidu
2019 – World Book of records for matchless contribution to cinema world
6 Film Fare awards & 1 national award
Sang for more than 4 decades
Sang for almost all the actors associated with Bollywood ( Big & Small)
Worked for almost all the Music directors and Lyricist in Bollywood.

Sang highest number of patriotic songs
Sang more than 7500 songs in 15 Indian languages and 4 Foreign languages
Sang in many regional languages other than Hindi and Urdu like konkani, Assamese, Bhojpuri, Odia, Bengali, Marathi, Sindhi, Kannada, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Magahi, Maithili,etc.
Apart from Indian languages, he also sang in some foreign languages, including English, Farsi, Arabic, Sinhala, Mauritian Creole, and Dutch
Sang all types of songs like bhangra, ghazal, qawwali, romantic songs, lullaby, classical, folk song, patriotic song, playful number, bhajan and even the rare ‘rukhsati’song,
One of the best and most loved singer in the country
“Lata Mangeshkar, his contemporary, has said that “Rafi bhaiya was not only India’s greatest playback singer but also a wonderful person” and that “he was one singer whose vocal range could outclass any other singer, whether it was me, Asha, Manna da or Kishore bhaiya”.”
Only Singer in the world who is worshipped in many places in the country by his fans.

Smt. M.S Subbulakshmi – Carnatic classical vocalist (16 September 1916 – 11 December 2004) Year awarded: 1998 ; State: Tamil Nadu
Pandit Ravi Shankar (7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012) Year awarded: 1999 ; State: West Bengal
Smt. Lata Mangeshkar (28 September 1929 – 6th February 2022) Year awarded: 2001; State: Maharashtra

Ustad Bismillah Khan – Indian Musician (shehnai vadak) (21 March 1916 – 21 August 2006) Year awarded: 2001; State: Bihar
Pandit Bhimsen Joshi – Hindustani Classical singer (4 February 1922 – 24 January 2011) Year awarded: 2009 ; State: Karnataka
Shri Bhupen Hazarika – Play back singer, lyricist, Poet (8 Sept 1926 – 5 November 2011) Year awarded: 2019 ; State: Assam

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