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Lata Mangeshkar

1929 - 2022

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Lata Mangeshkar (Hindi pronunciation: [ləˈt̪aː məŋˈɡeːʃkəɾ] ; born Hema Mangeshkar; 28 September 1929 – 6 February 2022) was an Indian playback singer and occasional music composer. She is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential singers of the Indian subcontinent. Her contribution to the Indian music industry in a career spanning eight decades gained her honorific titles such as the "Queen of Melody", "Nightingale of India", and "Voice of the Millennium". Mangeshkar recorded songs in over thirty-six Indian languages and a few foreign languages, though primarily in Hindi, Bengali and Marathi. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lata Mangeshkar is the 200th most popular singer (down from 88th in 2019), the 154th most popular biography from India (down from 60th in 2019) and the most popular Indian Singer.

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Lata Mangeshkar ranks 200 out of 4,381. Before her are Usher, Feodor Chaliapin, Kendrick Lamar, Celia Cruz, Mina, and David Coverdale. After her are Meat Loaf, Johnny Logan, Valery Leontiev, Cass Elliot, İbrahim Tatlıses, and Rob Halford.

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Among people born in 1929, Lata Mangeshkar ranks 80. Before her are Lennart Johansson, Mike Hawthorn, Dick Clark, Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow, George Steiner, and Helmut Rahn. After her are Nikolai Ryzhkov, Chadli Bendjedid, P. Ramlee, Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Stirling Moss, and Yozo Aoki. Among people deceased in 2022, Lata Mangeshkar ranks 58. Before her are Kirstie Alley, Issey Miyake, Angelo Badalamenti, Hardy Krüger, Raymond Damadian, and Ash Carter. After her are Meat Loaf, Pat Carroll, Bill Russell, Teresa Berganza, Stanislav Shushkevich, and Jerry Lee Lewis.

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In India

Among people born in India, Lata Mangeshkar ranks 154 out of 1,861. Before her are Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551), Guru Arjan (1563), Rajaraja I (947), Ahilyabai Holkar (1725), Basava (1134), and Lawrence Durrell (1912). After her are Sushruta (-620), Sher Shah Suri (1486), Kasturba Gandhi (1869), Bindusara (-320), Abdul Qadeer Khan (1936), and Wilfred Bion (1897).

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Among SINGERS In India

Among singers born in India, Lata Mangeshkar ranks 1. After her are Engelbert Humperdinck (1936), Mohammed Rafi (1924), Navneet Aditya Waiba (null), Kishore Kumar (1929), Asha Bhosle (1933), Kavita Krishnamurthy (1958), Kumar Sanu (1957), Gangubai Hangal (1913), M. S. Subbulakshmi (1916), Jasraj (1930), and S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (1946).

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