Lata Mangeshkar

Indian playback singer

Born: 28th September 1929, Indore (now Madhya Pradesh), India
Died: 6th February 2022, Mumbai, India (COVID-19)

One of India’s greatest playback singers (a vocalist who provides the soundtrack that actors lip-sync to on screen) with a four-octave range. She is the most-recorded voice in history, with over 30,000 songs to her credit that have appeared in over 1,200 films and sung in more than 20 different languages.

Daughter of Hridaynath Mangeshkar.