(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "WOH KAUN THI SONG") LATA MANGESHKAR: (Singing in Hindi). PATHAK: She was what we call in India a playback singer. Actresses would lip sync to the song she recorded.

Ms. Mangeshkar, a revered figure in India, recorded songs for countless films — not appearing onscreen herself, but providing characters’ singing voices. By Shalini Venugopal Bhagat Lata ...

Legendary Bollywood singer Lata Mangeshkar, “the Nightingale of India ... While most of her work has been in Hindi films, she has also sung many devotional songs, patriotic songs, ghazals ...

Mangeshi is the place where the first family of Hindi film music traces its roots to -- Lata Mangeshkar and her siblings get their surname from Mangeshi, which is where their father, Master ...

Lata Mangeshkar has sung at least 27,000 songs in 36 languages. Photos: Photographs courtesy ‘Lata Mangeshkar...In Her Own Voice’ by Nasreen Munni Kabir/Niyogi Books Lata is the Lata ...

NEW DELHI — Lata Mangeshkar ... smooth but sharp voice and immortalizing Hindi music for decades to come. Few musicians defined versatility like Mangeshkar, who issued her debut song in 1942 ...

Entering the sparkling galaxy of Hindi film music with the haunting "Aayega Aanewala" ("Mahal", 1949) for ethereal Madhubala, Lata Mangeshkar became the definitive voice of several generations of ...

Singing professionally from the age of 13, Lata Mangeshkar has lent her voice to four generations of heroines - an unparalleled and iconic phenomenon in Hindi cinema. Singing professionally from ...