Lata Mangeshkar turns 91: The nightingale, with 25,000 songs in over seven decades, is a ...
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Lata Mangeshkar`s first recorded song was in 1942. She was only 13. It was for a Marathi movie but was later dropped from the album. Despite every filmmaker`s best efforts to have at least one ditty sung by THE Lata Mangeshkar, these days the nightingale rarely enters the studio – her “temple”, in the immortal words of Naushad. Her last recorded song was in 2015, in an Indo-Pak gay love story. From 1942 to 2015, that`s a record-shattering 73 years of continuous playback and only Mangeshkar, the high priestess of Bollywood singing, could have managed that momentous feat. For 73 years, and even longer, she has regaled music listeners with her mellifluous voice and in total domination as...