{"id":3372,"date":"2022-02-06T12:42:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T07:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/satyanewsalert.in\/?p=3372"},"modified":"2022-02-06T12:42:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T07:12:40","slug":"10-lesser-known-facts-about-legendary-singer-lata-mangeshkar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satyanewsalert.in\/?p=3372","title":{"rendered":"10 Lesser known facts about legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The legendary Singer Lata Mangeshkwar<\/strong> died today at the age of 92\u00a0 in Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital due to multiple organ failure after contracting COVID <\/strong>. Let us look at some of the lesser known facts about her :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lata Mangeshkar was born in 1929, the eldest daughter of\u00a0Deenanath Mangeshkar<\/a>, a\u00a0Marathi<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Konkani<\/a>\u00a0musician and his wife Shevanti . She belonged to family of performers . Her father, Deenanath Mangeshkar, was a classical singer and theatre actor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Lata Mangeshkar was name Hema at the time of birth . Her parents later renamed her Lata after a female character, Latika, in one of her father’s plays, \u092d\u093e\u0935 \u092c\u0902\u0927\u0928.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Lata was the eldest child of the family.\u00a0Meena<\/a>,\u00a0Asha<\/a>,\u00a0Usha<\/a>, and\u00a0Hridaynath<\/a>, in birth order, are her siblings; all are accomplished singers and musicians.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Lata received her first music lesson from her father. At the age of five, she started to work as an actress in her father’s musical plays (Sangeet Natak<\/a><\/em>\u00a0in\u00a0Marathi<\/a>).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

On her first day of school,\u00a0she left school because they would not allow her to bring her sister Asha with her, as she would often bring her younger sister with her.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Her first song “Naachu Yaa Gade, Khelu Saari Mani Haus Bhaari” which was composed by Sadashivrao Nevrekar for Vasant Joglekar’s\u00a0Marathi<\/a>\u00a0movie\u00a0Kiti Hasaal<\/em>\u00a0(1942) was removed from final cut .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Her first Hindi song was “Mata Ek Sapoot Ki Duniya Badal De Tu” for the\u00a0Marathi<\/a>\u00a0film\u00a0Gajaabhaau<\/em>\u00a0(1943)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

She received Padma Bhusan award in the year 1969 , Dada Saheb Phalke award in the year 1989, Padma Vibhusan award in the year 1999 ,Bharat Ratna in the year 2001 , “One Time Award for Lifetime Achievement” honour to commemorate the 60th anniversary of India’s independence in 2008 . She has also received various film fare awards.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

She has recorded songs in as many as 36 languages including Hindi, Marathi, Assamese, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Tamil, Kannada, etc.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Her Patriotic song Ae Mere Watan ke logon moved Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to tears in January 27, 1963 . The song was dedicated to soldiers who died in 1962 war .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The legendary Singer Lata Mangeshkwar died today at the age of 92\u00a0 in Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital due to multiple organ failure after contracting COVID . Let us look at some of the lesser known facts about her : Lata Mangeshkar was born in 1929, the eldest daughter of\u00a0Deenanath Mangeshkar, a\u00a0Marathi\u00a0and\u00a0Konkani\u00a0musician and his wife Shevanti […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/satyanewsalert.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/satyanewsalert.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/satyanewsalert.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satyanewsalert.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satyanewsalert.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/satyanewsalert.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3375,"href":"https:\/\/satyanewsalert.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372\/revisions\/3375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satyanewsalert.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/satyanewsalert.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satyanewsalert.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satyanewsalert.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}