His family migrated from Mandawa in Rajasthan, to Pakistan at the time of partition of India in 1947.
When he sang, his father Mehdi Hasan was so annoyed that he rebuked him for singing in an effeminate voice.
He has toured India, along with ghazal singer Jagjit Singh, in 2009 on the concert tour called Music for Peace which seeks to establish peaceful relations between India and Pakistan which share a common culture and language.
[3] He signed a contract with Sony Entertainment last year and the album will be released across the globe in January 2010.
Asif Mehdi lived with his family in Karachi, Pakistan, where he breathed his last on 2 August 2021.