Born as Hema Mangeshkar. She was an Indian singer and music composer. She was widely considered one of the greatest and most influential singers in India. Her contribution to the Indian music industry in a career spanning seven decades has gained her honorific titles such as the Nightingale of India and Queen of Melody.
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Lata Mangeshkar was born in 1929, the eldest daughter of Deenanath Mangeshkar, a Marathi and Konkani musician, and his wife Shevanti in Indore (in present-day Madhya Pradesh and then the capital of the princely state of Indore which was part of the Central India Agency in British India).
Her father, Deenanath Mangeshkar, was a classical singer and theatre actor. Her mother, Shevanti (later renamed Shudhamati), a Gujarati woman from Thaler, Bombay Presidency (now in northwest Maharashtra), was Deenanath's second wife.
His first wife Narmada, who had died, was Shevanti's older sister. Her father was a well-known Marathi musician and theatre artist. She was first tutored by her father and later appeared as a child artist in several of his plays.
Deenanath adopted the surname Mangeshkar to identify his family with his native town of Mangeshi, Goa. Lata was named "Hema" at her birth.
Her parents later renamed her Lata after a female character, Latika, in one of her father's plays, भाव बंधन. Lata was the eldest child of the family. Meena, Asha, Usha, and Hridaynath, in birth order, are her siblings; all are accomplished singers and musicians.
Lata received her first music lesson from her father. At the age of five, she started to work as an actress in her father's musical plays (Sangeet Natak in Marathi).
On her first day of school, she left school because they would not allow her to bring her sister Asha with her, as she would often bring her younger sister with her.
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Lata had recorded songs in over thirty-six Indian languages and a few foreign languages, though primarily in Hindi and Marathi. In her unmatched career during which she sang in more than 1,000 movies, Lata Mangeshkar became one of the most acclaimed playback singers of Bollywood.
She has received several accolades and honors throughout her career. In 1987 The Dadasaheb Phalke Award was bestowed on her by the Government of India.
Lata Mangeshkar recorded her first Hindi song called "Mata Ek Sapoot Ki Duniya Badal De Tu" for the Marathi feature Gajaabhaau and went on to collaborate with Bollywood titans like Anil Biswas, Shankar Jaikishan, Naushad Ali, and SD Burman among others. In 2001, in recognition of her contributions to the nation, she was awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honor, and is only the second vocalist, after M. S. Subbulakshmi, to receive this honor.
France conferred on her its highest civilian award, the Officer of the Legion of Honour, in 2007.
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Lata Mangeshkar has won several awards and honors, including the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, Padma Bhushan (1969), Padma Vibhushan (1999), Zee Cine Award for Lifetime Achievements (1999), Dadasaheb Phalke Award (1989), Maharashtra Bhushan Award (1997), NTR National Award (1999), Bharat Ratna (2001), Legion of Honour (2007), ANR National Award (2009), three National Film Awards and 15 Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards.
She has also won four Filmfare Best Female Playback Awards. In 1969, she made the unusual gesture of giving up the Filmfare Best Female Playback Award to promote fresh talent. She was later awarded the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993 and Filmfare Special Awards in 1994 and 2004.
In 1984, the State Government of Madhya Pradesh instituted the Lata Mangeshkar Award in her honor. The State Government of Maharashtra also instituted a Lata Mangeshkar Award in 1992.
In 2009, Mangeshkar was awarded the title of Officer of the French Legion of Honour, France's highest order
In 2012, Mangeshkar was ranked number 10 in Outlook India's poll of the Greatest Indian.
Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan said kambakht, Kabhi besuri na hoti ("[she] is never off-key"). Dilip Kumar once commented, Lata Mangeshkar ki awaaz kudrat ki takhleek ka ek karishma hain, meaning "Lata Mangeshkar's voice is a miracle from God".
Mangeshkar is also a recipient of honorary doctorates from the Sangeet Natak Akademi in 1989, Indira Kala Sangeet Vishwavidyalaya, Khairagarh, and Shivaji University in Kolhapur.
𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲: She had four siblings: Meena Khadikar, Asha Bhosle, Usha Mangeshkar, and Hridaynath Mangeshkar – of whom she was the eldest.
Mangeshkar died on 6 February 2022, from multiple organ failure after contracting COVID-19 and undergoing 28 days of treatment at the Breach Candy Hospital, Mumbai, India.
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She was the true VOICE OF INDIA. She will be remembered for all times to come. Her voice shall also remain immortal.