The songs of KK that shall never die

Brut India

Millions of hearts broke with KK's passing. But his resounding music legacy lives on. Here's a flashback to the singer looking back at some of his most iconic songs.   Mihir Joshi

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00:00I've never wanted an award

00:02Maybe after I'm dead, you can give me one

00:08I sung that song, you know, actually

00:10after singing Ding Dong, can you believe it?

00:12I did Ding Dong for Anu Malik

00:14Alright? And I'm like, spritey and all

00:16like, full tapori and all

00:18And Mahesh Bhet looks at me, kya ga ke aayo?

00:20Tapori gaana, chalo bahar

00:22Acha abhi toh gaana kar rahe hain, dub

00:24He started talking about very morose, morbid things

00:26And I'm thinking, what is he doing to me?

00:28Good mood? Mood khaab kar diya

00:30Phir pata chala gaana kya jab

00:32Mood mein kisa, maine kisa hai, ab bahot chalu ho

00:34Toh kirti hai ki, yaar tera mood

00:36Nahin toh aadha ghatar lagta hai tereko extra

00:38Toh he just got me into the mood because

00:40A song like Aawar Apan has to be

00:42You have to feel, you know, very very

00:44Desolate, very very alone

00:46That space has to be there

00:48Correct

00:50Na ho iss baar kahin koi

00:54Khaab jala hai

00:56Khaab jala hai

00:58Seene mein

01:00Remember I was nominated for Filmfare Awards for Aawar Apan and

01:02Tu Aashqi

01:04I've never won one, but that's okay

01:06What's up with that Filmfare people?

01:08It's cool, no, it's not with them

01:10The problem lies here

01:12It's all here, I've never wanted an award

01:14I'll be very dead honest, you know

01:16In life, you have to want something for you to get it

01:18You know what, it's like that

01:20We were just talking, I just saw when I entered here

01:22He's a big Led Zeppelin fan

01:24I don't think they ever won a Grammy while they were performing

01:26And they got like a Grammy award much later

01:28Yes, maybe after I'm dead you can give me one

01:30No, no, they were alive when they got the Grammy

01:38It's one of my favourite songs

01:40I remember we did a song with Vishal Shekhar

01:42Kaafi kahaaniya bhiche jhudi hain, kabaristan ke saath hai studio

01:44Okay

01:46Problem ho rahi thi, main kaafi baar zikr kar chuka hu

01:48Par abhi kaafi zara nahi log hota hai aur waqt

01:50So we couldn't record this song for a bit, you know

01:52So we went out

01:54Kabar mein jaake badge koi baate kar rahe hain

01:56Aapas mein, little prayer

01:58I said, let me just do this song, I love this song

02:00The backup vocals and all are fantastic

02:02Behind, you know

02:04Clinton and Dominique and friends had done a superb job

02:06And I just had to sit on it

02:08And take a ride, you know

02:10That's what I thought, and I just loved it

02:14In 2004, there's a song

02:16Which people

02:18I know you've sung in multiple languages

02:20And this is one of those Tamil songs

02:22Which still works like a boss

02:24I mean, in Mumbai, whenever there are

02:26Parties, the song plays, everybody goes

02:28Ape sh**

02:30This is insane, you know what I'm talking about

02:32In fact, I must have done it

02:34Four times on stage, live, I don't know

02:36But it's a beautiful song

02:40Yeah, I love this song, it's got a great energy

02:42Did you know he sang this one?

02:44I did not, good god

02:46Phenomenal stuff man, phenomenal

02:50Yeah

02:56Oh yeah, there was a big

02:58There was a little sensuous kind of

03:00My

03:02I oomph song

03:08Then Tadap Tadap happened in 99

03:10Which is the best thing that could have happened to me

03:12And it was such a massive song

03:14It was a massive song

03:16This is a big, humongous song

03:18I hadn't done anything earlier like that

03:20That must have been like

03:22A massive song in terms of, you know

03:24Helping you out in terms of getting into live

03:26Spaces, right?

03:28It did, you know, but me being the kind of guy that I am

03:30That I run away from media, as such

03:32I've been a very shy guy

03:34So I didn't really capitalize on it

03:36If I think about it, what was the reason

03:38That I didn't do, I don't know

03:40But I really didn't chase it, in the sense

03:42If I had been

03:44A different personality

03:46A little more outgoing

03:48Then I would have gone there and said

03:50Okay, this is my song and I would have sung it out

03:52Wherever I could, you know, I'd promote it

03:54There's nothing wrong in that

03:56But my mind tells me something else

03:58I have to follow my heart

04:00So I didn't do it

04:02But having said that, without me doing it

04:04It garnered it on its own, you know

04:06That song was so big

04:08So it helped me ride on it by itself

04:10You know, people say, who is it, who is it

04:12People must have found out

04:14It found out

04:16And then after that I did Mujhe Kuch Kahna Hai

04:18I did Aks, Bandai Vindas, Sroli

04:20And I did, over the years I'm saying

04:22I'm just quickly mentioning songs

04:24Because it gave me a whole different identity of myself

04:26You don't have to necessarily

04:28Strike when the thing is hot

04:30You know, because

04:32It's not some kind of industry, I don't believe in it

04:34I'm an artist here

04:36I'm not here just to make money

04:38Or just to ride a success wave

04:40It's not a wave for me

04:42It's a space that I'm in, you know

04:44And I like to be there forever, as long as I'm alive

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