Bollywood playback singer Shabbir Kumar was born in Vadodara. He was the leading bollywood playback singer in the period of 1980. He started his singing career with the stage show Ek Shaam Rafi Ke Naam. He was highly inspired by the Mohammad Rafi’s style of singing which is quite understood by listening his songs.

Shabbir Kumar debut film as a playback singer was 1981 released Tajurba. But he eventually shot to fame when music director duo Laxmikant-Pyarelal gave him opportunity to sing for Amitabh Bachchan starrer movie, Coolie. After that he crooned some hit songs for Sunny Deol’s debut movie, Betaab. The songs rendered by him in the film were highly appreciated by the people and the success of the film established him as the leading bollywood playback singer of that time.

Shabbir Kumar sang for all the top music directors of bollywood including Laxmikant Pyarelal, R. D. Burman, Rajesh Roshan, Anu Malik, Nadeem Shravan, A.R. Rahman etc. His last hit song was Gori hain kalaiyan pehna de mujhe hari hari chudiyaan from Amitabh Bachchan starrer Aaj Ka Arjun.

Some of the hit songs of Shabbir Kumar are mentioned below :

1. Sochna kya jo bhi hoga dekha jaayega kal ke liye aaj ko na khona aaj ye naa fir aayega - Ghayal
2. Jab hum jawan honge jaane kahan honge lekin jahan honge tujhe fariyaad karenge tujhe yaad karenge - Betaab
3. Gori hain kalaiyaan tu laa de mujhe hari hari chudiyaan apna bana le mujhe balma - Aaj Ka Arjun
4. Saari duniya ka bojh hum uthate hain - Coolie
5. Tumse milkar naa jaane kyun aur bhi kuch yaad aata hai aaj ka apna pyaar nahi hai janmon ka yeh naata hai - Pyaar Jhukta Nahi
6. Zindagi har kadam ek nayi jung hai jeet jaayenge hum tu agar sang hai - Meri Jung
7. Naa maange sona chandi naa maange bangla gaadi ye mere kis kaam ke (parody) - Mr. India