Unfortunately, the Indian public was reluctant to buy them. On one side of the record, he dubbed Bahadur Shah Zafar’s ghazals and on the other side, Ghalib's ghazals. He put a lot of effort and came out with a gramophone record of ghazals in his voice. In his own words, "He was not happy in ‘Ujray dayar mein’, the same ghazal which had won him an award of a lifetime. Hence, he felt lonely and missed his earlier college functions in Bombay. During his stay in America, he had been out of touch with music. His winning performance was singing the ghazal of the last Moghul Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, Lagta Nahin Hai Jee Mera Ujray Diyar Mein.Įncouraged by this honour, at a young age, he took more interest in ghazal singing. In 1941, Habib Wali was awarded first prize in a Bombay music competition with 1200 contestants, including the singer Mukesh Chand Mathur. He completed his bachelor's degree in Bombay. In college, he became active in the musical functions of Ismail Yusuf College, gaining the nickname 'Taan Sen'. CareerĪs a youth, Habib Wali received classical music lessons from Ustad Latafat Hussain, nephew of Ustad Fayyaz Khan. The Tabanis belong to the Gujarati-speaking Memon community. He died on 3 September 2014 in Los Angeles, USA. Tabani was the governor of the province of Sindh, Pakistan around 1988.
He received his MBA from Syracuse University, New York in 1947, and then lived in Mumbai for about 10 years before moving to Pakistan.
But due to economic and business reasons, he gave priority to academics. His family, Tabani, an industrial house has large business holdings in Pakistan.ĭuring his childhood Habib Wali Mohammad often listened to Qawwali music. Habib Wali Mohammad was born in 1921 at Rangoon to a conservative Memon family, which later moved to Mumbai.
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