Masood Rana was a film singer from Pakistan. He began his singing career in 1962 with the film Inqalab and became the top male singer in both Urdu and Punjabi films for more than three decades. He sang in the highest number of films and was a busy film singer until his death on October 4, 1995.
Masood Rana was born in Mir Pur Khas, Sindh to a landowner family which had migrated from the East Punjab city Jalandhar. His started his singing career on Radio Pakistan Hydrabad in 1955 and established a singer group in Karachi in the early 60's with two other famous names in showbiz - Nadeem and Akhlaq Ahmad. Masood Rana was got his first breakthrough when the renowned actor Saqi introduced him to producer and director Iqbal Shehzad and musician Deebo. His first film song was in the film Inqalab and the song was Mashriq ki tareek faza mein nya svera phoota hay... composed by music director N. K. Rahoor but he got fame from his second film Banjaran in 1962. He was proudly introduced as "Pakistani Rafi" and always lived up to his reputation. He was a specialist in singing difficult songs in very high pitch and was the first choice for title and theme songs.

In 1964, the Punjabi song Tange wala khair mangda... in the film Daachi was a street song. he then became the most dominating male singer in both Urdu and Punjabi films when his six songs in film Hamarahi (1966) were mega hits. Masood Rana is still the only male singer in Pakistani films who sang more than 300 songs in each of two languages - Urdu and Punjabi. He sang in more than 550 films and he worked continuously from his first film in 1962 till his death in 1995. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.