# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rahul-dev-burman
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:24:49.135Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rahul-dev-burman"
name: "Rahul Dev Burman"
slug: "rahul-dev-burman"
description: "Rahul Dev Burman was an Indian music director and singer, who is considered to be one of the greatest and most successful music directors of the Hindi film music industry. From the 1960s to the 1990s, Burman composed musical scores for 331 films, bringing a new level of music ensemble with his compositions. Burman did his major work with legendary singers Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle and Mohammed Rafi. He also worked extensively with lyricists like Majrooh Sultanpuri, Anand Bakshi and Gulzar, with whom he created some of the most memorable numbers in his career. Nicknamed Pancham, he was the only son of the composer Sachin Dev Burman and his Bengali lyricist wife Meera Dev Burman."
tagline: "Indian musician (1939–1994)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/RDBurman_and_Asha_Bhosle_MI'81.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1939-06-27"
deathDate: "1994-01-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump