लता मंगेशकर


Lata Mangeshkar

(Marathi/Hindi:लता मंगेशकर) (born September 28, 1929) is an Indian singer. Focusing mainly on Bollywood film music, she is considered one of the foremost Indian vocalists of all time. She has sung in over twenty[1] major Indian languages and has been deemed the Nightingale of India[2][3][4][5], an honorary name also used for Sarojini Naidu and M. S. Subbulakshmi. Popular singer Asha Bhosle happens to be one of her sisters.

Lata Mangeshkar is the only second Indian singer to have received the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour,the other being M. S. Subbulakshmi. In fact, no other Indian singer of non-classical music has been awarded anything higher than the Padma Bhushan, the nation's third highest civilian honour as of April 2007.