India’s Best Playback Singer Lata Mangeshkar | Nightingale of India | Birthday Special

India Best Playback Singer Lata Mangeshkar Birthday special

Lata Mangeshkar’s career started in 1942, when a 13-year-old girl. First time – she sang a Marathi song, ‘Natali chaitraachi navalaai’ in the Marathi film, Pahili Mangalagaur – no one knew that Lata Mangeshkar would go on to become a true-blue legend. As the ‘nightingale of India’ turns 88 today.

Lata Mangeshkar (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 25,000 Hindi films and has sung songs in over 36 regional Indian languages and foreign languages, though primarily in Marathi and Hindi.

She is the recipient of three National Film Awards, 12 Bengal Film Journalists’ Association Awards, four Filmfare Best Female Playback Awards and many more. The Dadasaheb Phalke Award was bestowed on her in 1989 by the Government of India.

She is also the second vocalist, after M. S. Subbulakshmi, to have ever been awarded the Bharat Ratna in 2001, India’s highest civilian honour. She has four siblings—Asha Bhosle, Hridaynath Mangeshkar, Usha Mangeshkar and Meena Mangeshkar—of which she is the eldest.

Awards and Recognition’s

Lata Mangeshkar has won several awards and honours, including Bharat Ratna (India’s Highest Civilian Award), Padma Bhushan (1969) Padma Vibhushan (1999), Dadasaheb Phalke Award (1989), Maharashtra Bhushan Award (1997), NTR National Award (1999), Bharat Ratna (2001), ANR National Award (2009), three National Film Awards and 12 Bengal Film Journalists’ Association Awards. She has also won four Filmfare Best Female Playback Awards. In 1969, she made the unusual gesture of giving up the Filmfare Best Female Playback Award, in order to promote fresh talent. She was later awarded Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993.

In 1984, the State Government of Madhya Pradesh instituted the Lata Mangeshkar Award in honour of Lata Mangeshkar. The State Government of Maharashtra also instituted a Lata Mangeshkar Award in 1992.

Personal Information

• Real Name : Hema Hardikar
• Date of Birth : 28 September 1929
• Age (as in 2017) : 88 Years
• Father : Deenanath Mangeshkar
• Mother : Shevanti Mangeshkar
• Sister : Asha Bhosle, Usha Mangeshkar, Meena Mangeshkar,
• Brother : Hridaynath Mangeshkar
• Marital Status : Unmarried
• Eye Colour : Black
• Hair Colour : Salt & Pepper
• Birth Place : Indore, Indore State, Central India Agency, British India
• Zodiac sign/Sun sign : Libra
• Nationality : Indian
• Religion : Hinduism
• Hometown : New Delhi, India (Ancestral origin – Lusiana, Italy)
• Ethnicity : Maharashtrian
• Favourite Actor(s) : Dilip Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan, Dev Anand
• Favourite Actresse(s) : Nargis, Meena Kumari

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