

Master Vinayak (Vinayak Damodar Karnataki), the owner of Navyug Chitrapat movie company and a close friend of the Mangeshkar family, took care of them. In 1942, when Mangeshkar was 13, her father died of heart disease. Main article: List of songs by Lata Mangeshkar Early career in the 1940s On her first day of school, Mangeshkar left because she was not allowed to bring her sister Asha along with her. At the age of five, she started to work as an actress in her father's musical plays ( Sangeet Natak in Marathi). She received her first music lesson from her father. Meena, Asha, Usha, and Hridaynath, in birth order, are her siblings all are accomplished singers and musicians. Her parents later renamed her Lata after a female character, Latika, in one of her father's plays, भाव बंधन. ĭeenanath adopted the surname Mangeshkar in order to identify his family with his native town of Mangeshi, Goa. She learned Gujarati folk songs such as garbas of Pavagadh from her maternal grandmother. Her maternal grandfather, Seth Haridas Ramdas Lad, was from Gujarat, a prosperous businessman and landlord of Thalner. Since Deenanath Mangeshkar's parents were not married to each other, he did not inherit his father's caste and surname but instead inherited his mother's caste status. Her paternal grandmother, Yesubai Rane, was his Devadasi mistress from Goa. Her paternal grandfather, Ganesh Bhatt Navathe Hardikar (Abhisheki), was a married Karhade Brahmin pujari who performed the abhisheka of the Shiva lingam at the Mangueshi Temple in Goa. Her mother, Shevanti (later renamed Shudhamati), a Gujarati woman from Thalner, Bombay Presidency (now in northwest Maharashtra), was Deenanath's second wife his first wife Narmada, who had died, was Shevanti's older sister. Her father, Deenanath, was a classical singer and theatre actor. Lata Mangeshkar was born on 28 September 1929 in a Maharashtrian Brahmin family the eldest daughter of Deenanath Mangeshkar, a Marathi and his wife Shudhamati, a Gujarati in Indore (in the present-day Indore district of Madhya Pradesh and then the capital of the princely state of Indore which was part of the Central India Agency in British India). Īt one point, she appeared in the Guinness World Records which listed her as the most recorded artist in history between 19. Her last recorded song was "Saugandh Mujhe Is Mitti ki" released on 30 March 2019 as a tribute to the Indian Army and the Nation.


In 1974, she was one of the first Indian playback singers to perform at Royal Albert Hall in London, UK. She was the recipient of 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 many more. France conferred on her its highest civilian award, Officer of the National Order of the Legion of Honour, in 2007. In 2001, in recognition of her contributions to the nation, she was awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour she is only the second female singer, after M. In 1989, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award was bestowed on her by the Government of India.

She received several accolades and honors throughout her career. Her foreign languages included English, Russian, Dutch, and Swahili. Lata recorded songs in over thirty-six Indian languages and a few foreign languages, though primarily in Marathi, Hindi, and Bengali. Her contribution to the Indian music industry in a career spanning seven decades gained her honorific titles such as the "Queen of Melody", "Nightingale of India", and "Voice of the Millennium". She is widely considered to have been one of the greatest and most influential singers in India. Lata Mangeshkar ( ( listen)) (born as Hema Mangeshkar 28 September 1929 – 6 February 2022) was an Indian playback singer and occasional music composer.
