Mohammed Aziz was involved with music during his childhood. Later he started his professional musical career with a Bengali film titled Bouma (1986). He went to Mumbai for a better career opportunities in film industry where he was introduced to Bollywood’s film Amber (1984) by music director Sapan-Jagmohan; however his first prominent singing role appeared in Mard film, by music director Anu Malik. The title song “Mard Tangewala” of this film became a super hit.
After the success of this song he gave several hits in 1985 such as “Aate Aate Teri Yaad Aa Gayi” from Jaan Ki Baazi. Since then, he was the most sought singer in Bollywood film industry in that decade. He worked with several famous music directors such as Naushad, O. P. Nayyar, Kalyanji-Anandji, Laxmikant-Pyarelal, R. D. Burman, Bappi Lahiri, Rajesh Roshan, Usha Khanna, Anu Malik, Anand-Milind, Jatin-Lalit, Ravindra Jain, Raamlaxman, Aadesh Shrivastava, Nadeem-Shravan and among others.
He had sung nearly 250+ songs for Laxmikant Pyarelal which is the highest for any composers he has sung for. He had also sung bhajans, private albums and Odia film songs until he was introduced as a playback singer in Hindi language films. Besides working in films, he also participated in stage shows in India and other countries.
During his career, Mohammed Aziz has sung for Bollywood’s prominent actors such as Dilip Kumar, Shammi Kapoor, Dharmendra, Jeetendra, Amitabh Bachchan, Rajesh Khanna, Vinod Khanna, Shatrughan Sinha, Shashi Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor, Mithun Chakraborty, Govinda, Sanjay Dutt, Sunny Deol, Anil Kapoor, Ajay Devgan, Jackie Shroff, Aditya Pancholi and several others. Apart from the female singers, he appeared some duets with some male singers such as Kishore Kumar, Amit Kumar, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Suresh Wadkar, Manhar Udhas, Shailendra Singh, Nitin Mukesh, Kumar Sanu, Vinod Rathod and Sudesh Bhosle.
