Lata Mangeshkar was a playback singer and occasional music composer from India. Mangeshkar is widely regarded as one of India’s greatest and most influential singers. Mangeshkar’s contribution to the Indian music industry in a career spanning eight decades gained her honorific titles such as the “Queen of Melody”, “Nightingale of India”, and “Voice of the Millennium”.
Mangeshkar received three National Film Awards, 15 Bengal Film Journalists Association Awards, four Filmfare Best Female Playback Awards, two Filmfare Special Awards, the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award, and numerous other honors. Mangeshkar was one of the first Indian playback singers to perform at London’s Royal Albert Hall in 1974. Her most recent recorded song, “Saugandh Mujhe Is Mitti ki,” was released on March 30, 2019, as a tribute to the Indian Army and the nation.
In 2012, Mangeshkar was ranked tenth in Outlook India’s poll of the Greatest Indian Since Independence. Lata Mangeshkar was honored in the ‘In Memoriam’ section of the 2022 British Academy Film and Television Awards (BAFTA). Mangeshkar also received honorary doctorates from the Sangeet Natak Akademi in 1989, the Indira Kala Sangeet Vishwavidyalaya in Khairagarh, and Shivaji University in Kolhapur.
Why is Lata Mangeshkar so famous?
Mangeshkar was so famous because she sang over 5,000 songs in over a thousand Hindi and 36 regional films.
