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Lata Mangeshkar

Lata Mangeshkar
Lata Mangeshkar at an event.jpg
Mangeshkar in 2014
Native name लता मंगेशकर
Born (1929-09-28) 28 September 1929 (age 87)
Indore, Indore State, Central India Agency, British India
(now Indore, Madhya Pradesh)
Nationality Indian
Occupation Playback singer
Years active 1942–present
Parent(s) Deenanath Mangeshkar (father)
Shevanti Mangeshkar (mother)
Relatives Asha Bhosle (Sister)
Usha Mangeshkar (Sister)
Meena Mangeshkar (Sister)
Hridaynath Mangeshkar (Brother)
Awards Bharat Ratna 2001
Padma Vibhushan 1999
Padma Bhushan 1969

Lata Mangeshkar (About this sound pronunciation ) (born 28 September 1929) is an Indian playback singer, and occasional music-composer. She is one of the best-known and most respected playback singers in India. Mangeshkar's career started in 1942 and has spanned over seven decades. She has recorded songs for over a thousand Hindi films and has sung songs in over thirty-six regional Indian languages and foreign languages, though primarily in Marathi and Hindi. She is the elder sister of singers Asha Bhosle, Hridaynath Mangeshkar, Usha Mangeshkar and Meena Mangeshkar. India's highest award in cinema, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, was bestowed on her in 1989 by the Government of India. She is the second vocalist, after M. S. Subbulakshmi, to have ever been awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour.

Lata Mangeshkar was born in a Marathi-speaking Gomantak Maratha family, in the princely state of Indore, part of the Central India Agency (now part of Madhya Pradesh). Her father, Pandit Deenanath Mangeshkar, was a classical singer and theater actor. Her mother Shevanti (Shudhamati) who was from Thalner, Maharashtra, was Deenanath's second wife. The family's last name used to be Hardikar; Deenanath changed it to Mangeshkar in order to identify his family with his native town, Mangeshi in 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, BhaawBandhan. Lata is the eldest child of her parents. Meena, Asha, Usha and Hridaynath are her siblings in sequence.


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