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Exclusive! Lata Mangeshkar Features On Rolling Stone’s 200 Best Singers Of All Time
Updated on: 04 January, 2023 05:20 PM IST |Pallavi Parihar
Late singer Lata Mangeshkar has been featured at the 84th spot in the renowned American Magazine Rolling Stone`s 200 Best Singers of All Time. The list also features many popular singers who are known all over the world like the Late singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and famous South Korean singer-songwriter Lee Ji-Eun.
In honor of the Late Lata Mangeshkar Rolling Stones wrote, “The crystalline, the eternally girlish voice of ‘the Melody Queen; is a cornerstone of Indian pop music, with a global influence spread via Bollywood films, whose golden era she defined. Lata was the empress of playback singers, the vocal magicians who perform songs for actors to lip-sync in lavish movie musicals, recording over 7,000 such songs, by some estimates.”
“Even Asha Bhosle, her younger sister, and only true peer among playbackers, considered ‘Lata Didi’ her ‘favorite singer; — and if Bhosle was more versatile and prolific, her elder sister remained the gold standard for the piercing brilliance of her tone. The Lata Mangeshkar songbook has informed songs far beyond Bollywood, from Britney Spears’s Toxic (which sampled the 1981 Lata duet Tere Mere Beech Mein) to electronic jams by Madlib and Four Tet (who made a section of Lata’s exquisite Main Teri Chhoti Bahna Hoon the centerpiece of his 2015 Morning Side).” It further added.
You will be surprised to know that Lata Mangeshkar was the only Indian singer on the list. Reacting to this big achievement of the late singer, director Sanjay Leela Bhansali said, “It is good to know that she has been ranked among the 200 best. But Lataji is not only among the 200 best, but she is also THE best singer civilization has ever produced.”
The veteran singer passed away in the year 2022, but her soulful evergreen songs will remain in our hearts forever.
In honor of the Late Lata Mangeshkar Rolling Stones wrote, “The crystalline, the eternally girlish voice of ‘the Melody Queen; is a cornerstone of Indian pop music, with a global influence spread via Bollywood films, whose golden era she defined. Lata was the empress of playback singers, the vocal magicians who perform songs for actors to lip-sync in lavish movie musicals, recording over 7,000 such songs, by some estimates.”
“Even Asha Bhosle, her younger sister, and only true peer among playbackers, considered ‘Lata Didi’ her ‘favorite singer; — and if Bhosle was more versatile and prolific, her elder sister remained the gold standard for the piercing brilliance of her tone. The Lata Mangeshkar songbook has informed songs far beyond Bollywood, from Britney Spears’s Toxic (which sampled the 1981 Lata duet Tere Mere Beech Mein) to electronic jams by Madlib and Four Tet (who made a section of Lata’s exquisite Main Teri Chhoti Bahna Hoon the centerpiece of his 2015 Morning Side).” It further added.
You will be surprised to know that Lata Mangeshkar was the only Indian singer on the list. Reacting to this big achievement of the late singer, director Sanjay Leela Bhansali said, “It is good to know that she has been ranked among the 200 best. But Lataji is not only among the 200 best, but she is also THE best singer civilization has ever produced.”
The veteran singer passed away in the year 2022, but her soulful evergreen songs will remain in our hearts forever.
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