‘Nightingale of India’ Lata Mangeshkar passes away

India’s nightingale Lata Mangeshkar is no more. She breathed her last on Sunday.

Lata Mangeshkar, who was under treatment for COVID-19, died in Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital on Sunday. She was 92.

Lata Mangeshkar is India’s greatest singer. A recipient of the Bharat Ratna, she was popularly known as the ‘Nightingale of India’.

Born in 1929 in a Marathi classical music family, Lata Mangeshkar began her career at the age of 13 in Marathi films.

Lata Mangeshkar had sung songs in almost all Indian languages and a few foreign languages. She is estimated to have sung 30,000 film songs, private songs, bhajans. She recorded her first Hindi song in the year 1943. She received her first break in 1948. After that, she never looked back and went on ruling the Indian film music industry for many decades.

Some of her best-known works in Hindi include Baiju Bawra, Mother India, Mughal-E-Azam, Barsaat, Shree 420, Madhumati, Bees Saal Baad, Khandan, Jeene Ki Raah, Parichay, Kora Kagaz, Lekin, Pakeezah, Abhimaan, Amar Prem, Aandhi, SIlsila, Chandni, Sagar, Rudali, Kabhi Kabhi, Lamhe, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, etc.

From SD Burman to AR Rahman, she sang for all the great music composers in India. She crooned two hit songs in Telugu as well.