2. Early Life
Latif Mohammed was born on November 16, 1951 in a
Village named Jalal in Bhatinda, Punjab. His Father
was also a singer Called Nikka Khan. Later on in his
life he changed his religion to sikhism and changed
his name to kuldeep manak.
3. Started Singing
He started singing at the really early age of 17 years
in 1968.He moved to Ludhiana to start his career. He
started singing with a popular Duo of that time called
Harcharan Grewal and Seema. When he went to
Delhi a Records Label offered him a song and he sang
it and got successful. He used a old instrument called
tumbi in all his songs.
4. Family
He got married to a women called sarabjeet and they
became parents of two children. His sons name is
Yudhvir Manak and her daughters name is Shakti.
His Son Yudhvir Manak is also a singer but he isn’t
as famous as his dad. He has two brothers, Siddiqui
who is a well known devotional singer.
5. Importance to punjabi Culture
He is Important to Punjabi culture due to his Songs
and kali’s related with punjab’s history like his song
Mirza Sahiba which was one of his Hits. He also sang
songs about the sikh history such as his song banda
singh bahadur. Kali’s are songs with really Long
heks.
6. Died
He died on November 30,2011 in Ludhiana,Punjab
with a heart attack while asleep. He died at the age of
62 years. There were a lot of popular people at his
funeral like all the punjabi singer’s and Badal the CM
of punjab.
7. Extra Information
After a year after his death all the famous punjabi
singer made a tribute song for him. Jazzy B treated
kuldeep manak as his ustad(Teacher) and kuldeep
manak treated him like his son.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qy7YGn9Kkw
