Lata the Nightingale of India has many awards to her credit. Starting her career at the age of 13 in 1942 with songs in her mother tongue Marathi, Mangeshkar has sung over 30,000 songs in several Indian languages in an over seven-decade career. She has lent her golden voice to generations of film heroines, from Madhubala to Kajol.<\/p>\n
Some of her most loved tracks are \u201cAjeeb dastan hai ye\u201d, \u201cPyar kiya to darna kya\u201d, \u201cNeela asman so gaya\u201d and \u201cTere liye\u201d. Didi tera deewana is also very popular.<\/p>\n
Her first Hindi song was \u201cPaa lagoon kar jori\u201d for Vasant Joglekar’s movie \u201cAap Ki Seva Mein\u201d in 1946. Two years later, composer Ghulam Haider gave Mangeshkar her first major break with the song \u201cDil mera toda\u201d in \u201cMajboor\u201d and after that there was no looking back for \u2018Lata didi\u2019, as she is fondly called.<\/p>\n
Lata has recorded songs for over a thousand Bollywood movies and has sung songs in over thirty-six regional Indian languages and foreign languages. However, her major work is in Hindi.<\/p>\n
Considered one of Indian cinema’s greatest singers, Mangeshkar received the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian honour, in 2001. She was also the recipient of several other awards, including the Padma Bhushan, the Padma Vibhushan and the Dada Saheb Phalke Award, and multiple National Film Awards. Mangeshkar was the first Indian to perform at London\u2019s Royal Albert Hall in 1974.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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