The nightingale. Living legend. Melody queen. There is no dearth of epithets when it comes to Lata Mangeshkar. Her name is synonymous with melody.
Born September 28, 1929 in Indore, Lata Mangeshkar has been active in all walks of Indian popular and light classical music having sung film songs, ghazals, bhajans and pop. She is the supreme voice of popular Indian music, an Indian Institution. Until the 1991 edition, when her entry disappeared, the Guinness Book of Records listed her as the most recorded artist in the world with not less than 30,000 solo, duet and chorus-backed songs recorded in 20 Indian languages between 1948 and 1987. Today the number might have reached 50,000!!!
Not for nothing did Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, whose famous vow was to wage a 1,000-year battle with India, once say, "Give us Lata Mangeshkar and you can keep Kashmir." |
# posted by SV @ 9/28/2003 06:22:00 AM