Lata Mangeshkar
Lata Mangeshkar was an Indian playback singer and occasional music composer. She is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential singers of the Indian subcontinent. Her contribution to the Indian music industry in a career spanning eight decades gained her honorific titles such as the "Queen of Melody" and "Voice of the Millennium".
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Trending topics shown first"I went to the temple, not to pay homage to Lord Mangesh, but on a sort of pilgrimage to see the place where you were born."
"When I speak, my Urdu isn’t very good but when I sing I make sure there are no flaws in my diction."
"Lata Mangeshkar is known to have been a sympathiser of the Hindutva ideology. In fact, she was a sympathiser of the pro-Hindu Mahasabha, which is a hardcore rightist organisation. Despite that she was…"
"I first listen to someone who speaks the language and who reads the lyrics to me. I pay great attention to pronunciation. Once I hear the words spoken, I write the song lines phonetically in Hindi and…"
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1929
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