Biography of Lata Mangeshkar complete biography for Class 10, Class 12, and Graduation and other classes.
India : Top Playback Singer
Birth : 1928
Lata Mangeshkar has ruled over the hearts of millions of her listeners throughout the world for the last forty years by the magic of her voice. Her voice is especially noted for its remarkable freshness and sonority. She has sung songs based on classical Indian music and ragas, bhajans or devotional songs, comic songs, romantic songs and melancholic songs.
Lata’s name has come in the Guinness Book of Records as the singer of the highest number of songs. She has already sung over 26,000 songs. She has sung in almost all the main Indian languages. It is due to the melodious voice of Lata Mangeshkar that many lyric writers and music directors became successful. She is the recipient of many awards and honors both within the country and abroad. The Government of India has conferred on her the title of ‘Padma Shri’. The Government of Madhya Pradesh has instituted an annual award of Rs. 1 lakh in her name. She has also received the prestigious Filmfare Award for best singer many times.
Lata Mangeshkar was born on 29th September 1928, in Indore (M.P.). She learned her early music lesson from her father. She is unmarried and is deeply religious in her personal life.
Though it is difficult to enumerate all those films which have hit songs of Lata but the following films are worth mentioning; Ancirkali, Mughul-E-Azam, Bees Saal Baad, Amar Prem, Guide, Khamoshi, Mehbooba, Zheel Ke Us Par, Asha, Prem Rog, Sargarn, Jurmana, Satyam Shivam Sundaram, Arpan, Ek Duje Ke Liye, etc. The songs sung by Lata in the recent film ‘Ram Teri Ganga Maili’ have become enormously popular and show that Lata’s voice has improved further.
