Lata Mangeshkar – India’s unique songstress

Lata Mangeshkar, India’s renowned playback singer, whose voice  appeared in 1000 Bollywood movies, and on 30,000 records and who appeared on stage at London’s Royal Albert Hall as well as Madison Square Garden and Carnegie Hall, has died. When she started in movies, her uniquely pure, high-pitched voice was recorded and then “played back” on the film set for an actress to mime to her voice. At the time, playback singers were the aural equivalent of stunt men and