Lata Mangeshkar

                      Present -1941 

                   Many Languages

                Lata mangeshkar (born twenty eight sep 1929) is associate degree indian singer, and occasional music-composer. she is one in every of the known and most revered playback singers in republic of india. mangeshkar's career started in 1942 and has spanned over six and a 0.5 decades. she has recorded songs for over 1000 hindi films and has sung songs in over 36 regional indian languages and foreign languages, tho' primarily in hindi. she is that the elder sister of singer asha bhosle, hridayanath mangeshkar, usha mangeshkar and meena mangeshkar. she is that the second instrumentalist to possess ever been awarded the bharat ratna, india's highest civilian honour.

               Mangeshkar was featured within the guinness book of world records from 1974 to 1991 for having created the foremost recordings within the world. the claim was that she had recorded or so 25,000 solo, duet, and chorus-backed songs in twenty indian languages between 1948 to 1974. over the years, whereas many sources have supported this claim, others have raised considerations over its truthfulness, claiming that this variety was extremely exaggerated which mangeshkar's younger sister, asha bhosle, had additional song recordings than she had. in 2011 guinness formally acknowledged bhosle because the most recorded creator in music history.

Life

               Lata mangeshkar was born gomantak indian family, within the princely state of indore, a {part of} the central asian nation agency (now part of madhya pradesh). her father, pandit deenanath mangeshkar united nations agency belonged to a gomantak indian samaj family from goa, was a classical singer and theater actor. her mother shevanti (shudhamati) united nations agency was from thalner, geographic region, was deenanath's second better half. the family's surname wont to be hardikar; deenanath modified it to mangeshkar so as to spot his family together with his native city, mangeshi in goa. lata was named "hema" at her birth. her folks later renamed her lata once a feminine character, latika, in one in all her father's plays, bhaawbandhan. lata is that the eldest kid of her folks. meena, asha, usha and hridayanath area unit her siblings in sequence.

              Mangeshkar took her initial lessons from her father. at the age of 5, she began to work as an histrion in her father's musical plays (sangeet natak in marathi). on the primary day within the faculty, she started teaching songs to different kids. once the teacher stopped her, she was therefore angry that she stopped planning to the varsity. different sources cite that she left faculty as a result of they'd not permit her to bring asha together with her, as she would usually bring her younger sister together with her.

Non-Singing Career

Music Direction : 

               Lata mangeshkar composed music for the primary time in 1955 for sanskritic language moving-picture show ram ram pavhane. later in nineteen sixties, she composed music for following sanskritic language movies underneath the anonym of anand ghan.

1960 - Ram ram pavhana 

1963 - Maratha tituka melvava

1963 - Mohityanchi manjula

1965 - Sadhi manase

1969 - Tambadi mati

              She won maharashtra state government's best director award for the film sadhi manase. the song "airanichya deva tula" from identical film received best song award.

Production : 

Lata mangeshkar has produced four films :

1953 - Vaadal (marathi) 

1953 - Jhaanjhar (hindi), co-produced with c. ramchandra

1955 - Kanchan (hindi) 

1990 - Lekin... (hindi) 

Awards And Recognitions

              Lata mangeshkar has won many awards and honors, together with asian nation ratna (india's highest civilian award)

1969 : Padma bhushan 

1999 : Padma vibhushan

1989 : Dada saheb phalke award

1997 : Maharashtra bhushan award

1999 : Ntr national award

2001 : Bharat ratna (2001),

2009 : Anr national award (2009),

Three national film awards, and 12 bengal film journalists' association awards.

1969 : Four film fare best female playback awards

She made the unusual gesture of giving up the film fare best female playback award, in order to promote fresh talent.

1993 : Film fare lifetime achievement award

                 In 1984, the regime of madhya pradesh instituted the lata mangeshkar award in honour of lata mangeshkar. Theregime of geographic region conjointly instituted a lata mangeshkar award in 1992.

              In 1974, the guinness book of records listed lata mangeshkar because the most recorded creative person within the history, stating that she had reportedly recorded "not but 25,000 solo, duet and chorus backed songs in twenty indian languages" between 1948 and 1974. her record was oppose by prophet rafi, world health organization was claimed to own sung around 28,000 songs.once rafi's death, in its 1984 edition, the guinness book of world records declared lata mangeshkar's name for the "most recordings", however additionally declared rafi's claim. the later editions of guinness book declared that lata mangeshkar had sung no fewer than 30,000 songs between 1948 and 1987.

             Although the entry has not been written in guinness editions since 1991, many sources claim that she has recorded thousands of songs, with estimates travel up to figures as giant as 50,000. but, even the earliest guinness claim of 25,000 songs (between 1948–1974) was claimed to be exaggerated by many different sources, with one amongst them stating that the amount of songs sung by lata mangeshkar in hindi films until 1991 was found to be 5250. mangeshkar herself explicit that she doesn't keep a record of the amount of songs recorded by her, which she failed to understand from wherever guinness book editors got their data. in 2011 asha bhosle was formally acknowledged by guinness because the most recorded creative person in music history, surpassing mangeshkar.