Legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar has passed away in Mumbai at the age of 92 after suffering a multi organ failure last night.
The Bharat Ratna awardee was admitted to the hospital after being diagnosed with pneumonia and tested positive for COVID-19 this month.
She was on the ventilator for weeks but then on January 28, she was taken off the ventilator as she showed signs of improvement.
Her health condition deteriorated again, and she was put back on the ventilator.
Her sister Asha Bhosle and actor Shraddha Kapoor visited the hospital late last night to meet the ailing singer.
Lata Mangeshkar, who was popularly known as the “Nightingale of India”, was a recipient of the country’s highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna. In her glorious career of over six decades, Lata Mangeshkar bagged several awards, including three National Film Awards, 15 Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards, four Filmfare Best Female Playback Awards, two Filmfare Special Awards and Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award.
She was also conferred by France its highest civilian award, the Officer of the Legion of Honour, in 2007. Besides this, she was a recipient of honorary doctorates from the Sangeet Natak Akademi in 1989, Indira Kala Sangeet Vishwavidyalaya, Khairagarh, and Shivaji University in Kolhapur.
Mangeshkar had crooned over 30,000 songs in different Indian languages. Her popular tracks include Bheegi Bheegi Raaton Mein, Tere Bina Zindagi Se, Tum Aa Gaye Ho Noor Aa Gaya, Kora Kagaz, Naina Barse Rim Jhim, Tu Jahan Jahan Chalega, Inhi Logon Ne, Lag Ja Gale Se Phir, Dekha Ek Khwab, Tere Liye and many others.
She worked with composers like Shankar Jaikishan, Naushad Ali, S. D. Burman, Sardul Singh Kwatra, Amarnath, Husanlal, C. Ramchandra, Hemant Kumar, Salil Chowdhury, Datta Naik, Khayyam, Ravi, Sajjad Hussain, Roshan, Kalyanji-Anandji, Vasant Desai, Sudhir Phadke, Hansraj Behl, Madan Mohan, Laxmikant-Pyarelal, AR Rahman and others.
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