- Name: Hema Mangeshkar ( Lata Mangeshkar)
- NickName(S): Queen of Melody, Voice of the Nation, Voice of the Millennium, Nightingale of India
- Profession: Playback singer, music director, producer
- Nationality: Indian
- Religion: Hindu
- Date of Birth: 28-09-1929 (age 91)
- Birth Place: Indore, Indore State, Central India Agency, British India (Madhya Pradesh)
- Age: 91 Years, as of 2020
- Education: N/A
- Height: 1.55m ( 155cm)
- Weight: 69 kgs (152 lbs)
- Eye Color: Black
- Hair color: Salt & Pepper
- Father: Pandit Deenanath Mangeshkar (classical singer and theatre actor)
- Mother(S): Shevanti Mangeshkar (Shudhamati), Died: Narmada (Shevanti's Older Sister )
- Brother(s): Hridaynath Mangeshkar
- Sister (s): Asha Bhosle, Meena Khadikar, and Usha Mangeshkar
- Husband: N/A
- Children: N/A
- Years Lively: 1942-Present
- Lata Mangeshkar has received about 250 trophies and 150 gold discs.
- The Guinness Book of Records listed Lata Mangeshkar in 1974, as the most recorded artist in history, Expressing that she had Evidently recorded "not less than 25,000 solo, duet, and chorus-backed songs in 20 Indian languages" between 1948 and 1974.
- She Sang Around 25,000 Songs in Over 7 Decades
- Lata Mangeshkar is Melodious, mesmerizing, ravishing, captivating, charming, spellbinding, alluring, delightful, soul-touching Singer
- The last song sung by the great Lata Mangeshkar was in a pretty unknown movie namely, ‘Dunno, Y…, Na Jaane Kyun’
Career as Singer
- She is the eldest daughter of Deenanath
- At the age of 13, her father died of heart disease.
- Vinayak Damodar Karnataki, Who is the owner of the Navyug Chitrapat movie company and a friend of the Mangeshkar family, took care of them.
- Vinayak Damodar Karnataki helped Lata to get started in a career as a singer and actress.
- Lata Mangeshkar sang songs composed by assorted music directors of the period, together with Anil Biswas, C. Ramchandra, Hemant Kumar, Salil Chowdhury, Datta Naik, Khayyam, Ravi, Sajjad Hussain, Roshan, Kalyanji-Anandji, Vasant Desai, Sudhir Phadke, Hansraj Behl, Madan Mohan, and Usha Khanna.
- In 1978 Satyam Shivam Sundaram(Directed By Raj Kapoor), Lata sang the main theme song "Satyam Shivam Sundaram,".
- Lata Mangeshkar worked Hard with music directors such as Shiv-Hari in Silsila, Faasle, Vijay, and Chandni and Ram Laxman in Ustadi Ustad Se, Bezubaan, Woh Jo Hasina, Prem Rog, Hero, Pyar Jhukta Nahin, Ram Teri Ganga Maili, Nagina, and Ram Lakhan, Ye Kesa Farz, and Maine Pyar Kiya. She sang in other movies, such as Karz, Ek Duuje Ke Liye, Silsila.
- In the Bengali Language, Lata Mangeshkar sang around 185 songs.
- And Many More Songs Sung By The Queen of Melody Lata Mangeshkar
- She is the Member of Parliament(Rajya Sabha), In-office From 22 November 1999 – 21 November 2005.
Awards
Government of India Awards
Lata Mangeshkar Awarded many, In 1969 - Padma Bhushan, In 1989 - Dada Saheb Phalke Award, In 1999 - Padma Vibhushan, In 2001 - Bharat Ratna, In 2008 - "One Time Award for Lifetime Achievement" honor to commemorate the 60th anniversary of India's independence
- Lata Mangeshkar has received about 250 trophies and 150 gold discs.
- She Awarded With Maharashtra State Film Award 5 Times, National Film Award 3 Times, Filmfare Award 7 Times, Bengal Film Journalists' Association Award 15 Times.
- She Awarded With Doctor of Letters By Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (2005), Shivaji University, Kolhapur(India), Pune University(India), Indira Kala Sangeet Vishwavidyalaya, Khairagarh(India), Fellow at Sangeet Natak Akademi in 1989, Hyderabad University(India), New York University, Baroda University.
- Lata Mangeshkar has received Many Other awards and honors Such as the Rajiv Gandhi Award(1997), NTR National Award(1999), Zee Cine Award for Lifetime Achievement(1999), IIFA Lifetime Achievement Award(2000), Noorjehan Award(2001), Asha Bhosle Award(2002), ANR National Award(2009), "Avadh Samman" by the Government of Uttar Pradesh, and Many more Awards...