This song is for Rafi Sahib:

Na to zameen ke liye, hai na assman ke liye
Tera wajood hai to sirf daastan ke liye

Mohammed Rafi was not a barber, they had fruit shop, it was their family business

I heard he had a son who died in a car accident in the UK. Interesting read about Rafi humble beginnings !!

yeh defin,,,, Rafi is Irreplaceable... Mashallah his voice has so much calmness and is so beautiful, all the songs that he sang nearly were top hits!!!

MissLondon it's normal that no one in his family followed his footsteps.
Because there WAS & IS only One RAFI.There will never be another one like him.Like Mozart or" La Joconde".
Once Manna dey said about Rafi : mer? ustad,ustadon ka ustad m.rafi.
And Mahendra kapoor answer to a question about who was the best among Rafi,Mukesh and Kishore, he said this :Both Mukesh & Kishore are good singers but Rafi was one step up.
Rafi is IRREPLACEABLE.

According to my knowledge Rafi was born at Kotla Sultan Singh Village near Amritsar in Punjab, to a middle class Muslim family then his family moved to Kot Radha Kishan city very close by lahore and then Lahore. Every day, a beggar used to come to their locality in Lahore and sing. The young Rafi was so fascinated by him, that he used to follow him around. His elder brother Hameed was aware of Rafi's love for music and he always encouraged it. There he studied music under Ustad Abdul Wahid Khan, Jeevanlal Matto and he also learned Indian classical music from Ghulam Ali Khan. One day Rafi and his brother Hameed went to attend a performance by K. L. Saigal. But h refused to sing because there was a power failure at the venue. Hamed went up to the organiser to ask whether his brother could sing to keep the audience quiet. That was Rafi's first public performnce at the age of 13. Among the audience sat noted composer Shyam Sunder, who invited Rafi to Bombay that was his rise to fame...