Latha Mangeshkar biography

"Lata Mangeshkar, a woman who won the Bharat Ratna award as a singer"

Lata Mangeshkar was born in 1929 in a Sikh mohalla in Indore. Her father Pandit Ninanath Mangeshkar Gomantak was a singer and actor born into a family in the Maratha community. The mother was his second wife Shevanti. Hema was the name given to Lata when she was born. Her parents changed her name to Lata to play a female character named Latika in a play written by her father. Descendants born to them after she was Asha, Usha, Hridayanath. She learned her first lessons from her father. At the age of five, she starred in a musical staged by her father. The children were taught to sing on the first day of school. She stopped going to school when the teacher got angry. Others say that her younger sister Asha did not come to school with her and that she also stopped going to school. Lata Mangeshkar was raised by her friend Vinayak Damodar when her father died when she was 13 years old. She first sang her first song in the 1942 Sant Joginder Marathi film Kiti Haasat Nachu Yaga, Khelu Sarimani House heavy but the song was cut short after the film came out. Vinayak Sahali sang the song Nattali Chitra Been Lie in Mangedar. She sang her first Hindi song Maa Ek Safut Ki Duniya Badal Detu, a Marathi film Gajabahu. It was released in 1943. She also joined the Vinayak Company in Mumbai in 1945. There he learned Hindi basic music from Ustad Amant Ali Khan. After arriving in Mumbai in 1946, she sang the song Palagunkar Jori in the film Apki Senamine. Lata sang a bhajan while playing a minor role in the Vinayak-produced Hindi film Lata's younger sister Asha Bhadima. Vinayak introduced Latina to director Vasantha Desai in his second Hindi film Subhadra.

After the partition of India in 1947, Ustad Amant Ali Khan left for Pakistan to study music with Lata Amant Khan, a native of Pandit Tulsi Das Sharma. She was also trained by Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan. When Vinayak died in 1948, music director Ghulam Haider became her mentor. He introduced her to a producer and denied that she had a sore throat while Haider vowed that those who were not now would fall at her feet to sing her song. Haider Lata is best known for her song Dil Marathoda in the movie Mazboor. At first, she thought of singing Noor Han singing but later learned to sing with her own voice. Dilip Kumar once said that she looks good in Marathi, but she learned Urdu by recognizing the combination of Urdu and Hindi languages. In 1949, she lent her voice to Madhubala's lips in the film Mahal. She worked with many music directors from the 1950s to the 60s and sang countless songs. In 1958, she received her first Filmfare Award. Bees Salbad has won a second Filmfare Award. In June 1963, Nehru sang a patriotic anthem during the Sino-Indian war in front of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, bringing tears to his eyes.

The same goes for the song Aye Mary Watan K Logo. She split from r.d Burman due to differences with him and sang many great songs with him back in 1963. Booth Bangla 1965, Patipatni 1966, Abhilasha 1969 are just a few of them. She has also worked with Laxmikant Pyarelal and brought some great songs to life. She also sang for Marathi and Bengali similar between 1960-1970. She also sang duets with Mukesh, Mannade, Mohammad Rafi and Kishore Kumar. In 1972, Meena Kumari's songs on Pakiza became very popular. The singer won the Best National Film Award in 1973. Back in 1975, she received the National Prize. In 1974 she sang on some stage in India in London and donated the wealth to some charities. In 1990, Gulzar himself produced the film Lekin. Although she was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 1999, she never participated in the assembly. Heftula, Pranab Mukherjee, and Shabana Ajmer criticized her for not accepting the reward for her illness. In 2001, she was awarded the Government of India Bharat Ratna. She set up a company and built a hospital in Pune on its behalf. In 2005, she sang in Lajju, a vocal composition by a Tamil music director. She has received the Padma Bhushan, Padma Vibhushan, Dadasaheb Palke Award, and the Maharashtra Bhushan Award and received the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993. The Governments of Madhya Pradesh in 1984 and Maharashtra in 1992 announced annual awards in her honor. In 1974, Mohammed Rafi challenged the Guinness Book of World Records for the most songs sung in her history. But after his death, she was recorded to have sung 50,000 songs.