India’s nightingale, Lata Mangeshkar, who passed away Sunday morning at 92 in Mumbai’s Breach Candy hospital, had a career spanning almost 80 years.
There are a few facts about the legendary singer which are not known much to her millions of admirers.
- Born in 1929 in Indore in a Sikh neighbourhood, Lata Mangeshkar was raised in a family of performers. From her siblings Meena, Asha, Usha, and Hridaynath to her father, the love for music ran closely in her family. Her father ran a theatre company, and she grew up listening to her father’s musical talents.
- Her first ever song Naachu Yaa Gade, Khelu Saari Mani Haus Bhaari for the Marathi movie called Kiti Hasaal, unfortunately, didn’t make the cut and was removed.
- Reportedly, the singer started giving music lessons on the very first day of her school, and when the teacher asked her to stop it, Lata Mangeshkar left the educational institution and never returned.
- Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Shivaji University, Pune University, Khairagarh Music University, Hyderabad University, New York University and the Baroda University have all given her honorary doctorates according to a report in One India.
- Lata Mangeshkar is the most recorded voice in history having crooned over 30,000 songs in 14 Indian languages.
- The singer never listened to her own songs. In a conversation with Bollywood Hungama, she revealed how she may many find a hundred faults in her singing if she ever glanced at her tracks.
