In the history of music, Lata Mangeshkar is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Lata Mangeshkar as Indian singer (1929–2022).
Lata Mangeshkar was born in 1929. Her recorded nationality is India.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
Lata Mangeshkar is described as singer, film actor and film score composer.
Lata Mangeshkar is associated first and foremost with discipline, Mangeshkar always recorded her songs barefoot as a mark of respect for the recording studio, which she considered a temple. Performance is the most perishable art and recording the most durable; a career sits between the two.
Formal recognition came in the shape of the Officer of the Legion of Honour (2007).
That the work was done from India matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Death came in 2022, at 93. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
Achievements
- Officer of the Legion of Honour — 2007
- Worked as singer, film actor and film score composer
