Popular Indian playback singer Sonu Niigaam along with a Birmingham-based music company staged a three-concert tour of Britain in memory of legendary singer Mohammad Rafi. The singer and the City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) staged three shows on their joint project Rafi Resurrected - a tribute album to Rafi, who gave innumerable Bollywood hit songs in the 1950s-80s. The concert was held at — Symphony Hall in Birmingham; Apollo Theatre in Manchester and Coliseum in London.

CBSO’s double-CD, 18-track album features some of Rafi’s memorable singles and duets sung by Niigaam and female singer Gunjan. The tracks include Suhani raat dhal chuki, Dil ke jharoke mein, Patthar ke sanam, Gulabi aankhen and the duet Mujhe teri muhabbat ka sahara.

The songs were selected from over 26,000 numbers of Rafi by Shin of Birmingham bhangra band DCS. CBSO recorded the orchestral parts at its home base, the CBSO Centre, with Niigaam adding the vocals in a studio in Mumbai. Some Indian percussion was also added at a different Mumbai studio, and the project then completed the square by being mixed in London.