How did lata mangeskar father realise that she would make an extraordinary singer
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On her 84th birthday on September 28, Lata Mangeshkar looks back at all the people who influenced her the most in her life.
Take a look.
My father, Pandit Dinanath Mangeshkar
My father had a huge hand in shaping me into the singer that I became. He taught me music.
But do you know for a very long time, my father didn’t know I could sing?
I was scared to sing in front of him. I would go into the kitchen and force my domestic helpers to listen to me sing.
My mother would scold me and shoo me away for wasting her time.
Then something happened.
A student of my father (who later became the very well-known Marathi actor Chandrakant Gokhale) was doing riyaaz while my father had stepped out. I was playing outside.
I was five years old.
I went inside and told Gokhale he was singing it wrong, and I sang it the way I had heard my father sing.
My father returned and made me sing it again. I sang and fled. I’d learnt from hearing my father sing though I never had the courage to go and sing with him. After I corrected his student, things changed.
The next morning, he told me to come to his room. I was petrified of him. He was very conservative and a disciplinarian.
All the ladies of the house, young or old, had to wear kum-kum on the forehead and bangles on their hands. We were not allowed to use powder. Those were the days of the freedom struggle.
Our home was filled with talk of anti-colonialism. (Freedom fighter) Veer Savarkar was my father’s friend.
That day when he asked me to learn music from him, he told me to take out the tanpuraand showed me how to hold it. He asked me to sing the same raga that I he had heard me sing the previous day. That’s how I was initiated into formal singing.
He taught me music regularly. My elder sister Meena and I learnt music from our father. The other siblings were too young when he died. My brother Hridaynath was only four when my father passed away.
My father didn’t see me become a singer but he predicted my success. He was a very good astrologer. He had prophesied that I would become so successful that no one would be able to reach my level.
He also predicted that he would not be alive when I became famous and that I’d look after the entire household.
After his death, I learnt music from others. I consider my father as my true guru. I don’t think I’d have become a singer if my father had lived. He wouldn’t have allowed it.
On her 84th birthday on September 28, Lata Mangeshkar looks back at all the people who influenced her the most in her life.
Take a look.
My father, Pandit Dinanath Mangeshkar
My father had a huge hand in shaping me into the singer that I became. He taught me music.
But do you know for a very long time, my father didn’t know I could sing?
I was scared to sing in front of him. I would go into the kitchen and force my domestic helpers to listen to me sing.
My mother would scold me and shoo me away for wasting her time.
Then something happened.
A student of my father (who later became the very well-known Marathi actor Chandrakant Gokhale) was doing riyaaz while my father had stepped out. I was playing outside.
I was five years old.
I went inside and told Gokhale he was singing it wrong, and I sang it the way I had heard my father sing.
My father returned and made me sing it again. I sang and fled. I’d learnt from hearing my father sing though I never had the courage to go and sing with him. After I corrected his student, things changed.
The next morning, he told me to come to his room. I was petrified of him. He was very conservative and a disciplinarian.
All the ladies of the house, young or old, had to wear kum-kum on the forehead and bangles on their hands. We were not allowed to use powder. Those were the days of the freedom struggle.
Our home was filled with talk of anti-colonialism. (Freedom fighter) Veer Savarkar was my father’s friend.
That day when he asked me to learn music from him, he told me to take out the tanpura and showed me how to hold it. He asked me to sing the same raga that I he had heard me sing the previous day. That’s how I was initiated into formal singing.
He taught me music regularly. My elder sister Meena and I learnt music from our father. The other siblings were too young when he died. My brother Hridaynath was only four when my father passed away.
My father didn’t see me become a singer but he predicted my success. He was a very good astrologer. He had prophesied that I would become so successful that no one would be able to reach my level