- Died after suffering a massive heart attack.
- Has sung more duets with Asha Bhosle than any other playback singer.
- Son Hamid ran a laundry passed away from a heart attack. His wife and children are based in London.
- In 1974,Rafi did a tour of Fiji Islands and did a few concerts in Suva,Nandi and Labasa (Subrail Park).
- Was mentioned in the the Cornershop song "Brimful of Asha".
- Father-in-law of Actress Leena Das. Leena is married to his son Shahid Rafi.
- Daughter named Yasmin. ( Not to be confused with his daughter in law by the same first name).
- Daughter named Parveen Rafi Ahmed .She is settled in UK. She is married to Aftab Ahmed.
- Daughter in law Firdaus Rafi. She is married to son Shahid Rafi. This is after Leena Das.
- Father name is Mohammed Ali.
- Son named Khalid Rafi. Khalid was married to Yasmin K. Rafi. Yasmin has written a book about Mohammed Rafi . Son Khalid passed away some years back. Khalid and Yasmin have a son named Raashid Rafi and daughter named Farhana.
- Daughter named Nasreen.
- Son names Saeed Rafi. He was married to Zakia Saeed Rafi.
- Son name is Hamid Rafi, he is married to Fouzia. Their children are Imran, Ali and Faiz.
- Granddaughter named Shabana (Born in London 1971, daughter of Khalid).
- Daughter Parveen's 18-year-old son Feroz Ahmed died in a car accident. She has another son named Iliyas.
- Grandson names Raashi Rafi. Raashi lives in London. He is the son of Khalid.
- After serving with Air India and Air Kuwait, Saeed and Khalid have started their own air freight business in London.
- Grandson name Fuzail Rafi. He is also a singer. He is the son of Shahid Rafi. His mother's name is Firdaus Rafi.
- Grandson name Irfan (Son of Yasmeen).
- Son Shahid Rafi sang and acted in the film Socha Na Tha (1989).
- His eldest son Saeed died in London some years back. Saeed has left behind a wife, a son,Rizwan and two daughters Rabia and Razia, all settled out of India.
- The last song sung by Rafi was for the movie Aas Paas, with music by Laxmikant-Pyarelal. One source says it was "Shaam Phir Kyun Udaas Hai Dost/Tu Kahin Aas Paas Hai Dost", recorded just hours before his death. Another source says that it was "Shehar mein charcha hai" from the same film.
- In the early '70s, Rafi suffered a major setback, when Kishore Kumar emerged as the main Bollywood playback singer, with Aradhana.
- In the 1970s, Rafi suffered from a throat infection for an extended period of time. During a brief period then, he recorded relatively fewer songs. Although his musical output was relatively low during this period, he did sing some of his best numbers then.
- Annually his birth and death anniversaries inspire several thousand musical tributes on stage, radio and television.
- In 2001, Rafi was named as the "best singer of the millennium" by Hero Honda and Stardust magazine.
- In a CNN-IBN survey in 2013, he was voted the greatest voice of Hindi Cinema.
- Rafi was buried at the Juhu Muslim cemetery and his burial was one of the largest funeral processions in India as over 10,000 people attended his burial. The government of India announced a two-day public mourning in his honour.
- Rafi's popularity today spans across the Indian sub-continent, having a reach to Indian communities in Singapore and Malaysia.
- In 2010, Rafi's tomb along with many film industry artists such as Madhubala, was demolished to make space for new burials. Fans of Mohammed Rafi, who visit his tomb twice a year to mark his birth and death anniversaries, use the coconut tree that is nearest his grave as a marker.
- Rafi recorded Hindi songs in English on 7" release in 1968. He also sang 2 songs in Mauritian Creole while on his visit to Mauritius in the late 1960s.
- Rafi is one of the recording artists mentioned in the 1997 hit British alternative rock song "Brimful of Asha" by Cornershop.
- When producer-director Manmohan Desai (who was a big fan of Rafi) and used him in numerous hit films, was asked to describe the voice of Rafi he remarked that "If anyone has the voice of god, it is Mohammed Rafi".
- Rafi's Baharon Phool Barsao was voted the most popular Hindi song in a BBC Asia Network poll commemorating 100 years of Hindi Cinema.
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