Write a few lines on Lata Mangeskar? (In 150-250 words)
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Lata Mangeshkar (born September 28, 1929), popularly called Lataji, is an Indian singer and an occasional music-composer. In her singing career of over seven decades she has been one of the best-known and most admired playback singers in India. She is also known by the epithet "Melody queen". Her songs are recorded in over thirty-six regional Indian languages and foreign languages with maximum recordings in more than 1,000 Hindi films and also songs in her mother tongue Marathi. She has won innumerable awards for film songs and is also the recipient of the Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award of India. She is also recipient of the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award. She is the world's most prolific recording artist. She was featured in the Guinness Book of World Records from 1974 to 1991 for recording over 25,000 solo, duet, and chorus-backed songs in 20 Indian languages between 1948 and 1974.
India's greatest playback singer Lata Mangeshkar who sang for him [Naushad] in the film.
Comment made after she sang for the film Baiju Bawra with Naushad as music director The Literary Works of Ranganathan Magadi. Ranganathan Magadi. pp. 657–. ISBN 978-1-4116-7004-4.
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 given various awards by governments of varying political hues only and only for her mind-boggling contribution to film music.
"Strip Lata Mangeshkar of Padma, Bharat Ratna awards, says Congress leader Janardhan Chandurkar". DNA India. Retrieved on 29 November 2013.
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.
She is the world's most prolific recording artist. She was featured in the Guinness Book of World Records from 1974 to 1991 for recording over 25,000 solo, duet, and chorus-backed songs in 20 Indian languages between 1948 and 1974. India's greatest playback singer Lata Mangeshkar who sang for him [Naushad] in the film.
Lata Mangeshkar was born in 1920 in Indore. Her father's name was Pandit Deenanath Mangeshkar and her mother's name was Sevanti.