The late Lata Mangeshkar is one of Indian popular music and Bollywood's most
prized and prolific voices, famed for her four-octave vocal range and known
variously as "Queen of Melody," "Nightingale of India," and "Voice of the
Millennium." Born on 28 September 1929 in Indore (in the present-day central
Indian state of Madhya Pradesh), she caught the music bug early, first receving
music lessons aged five under the tutelage of her father Deenanath Mangeshkar, a
singer and classical theater actor. She began contributing to her father's
muscial plays until he passed away prematurely...