The Indian government has announced two-day national mourning on the demise of legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar, who passed away on Sunday morning due to multi-organ failure.
Lata Mangeshkar, for whom the description playback singer is something of an understatement, has died in Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital. She was 92. Ms Mangeshkar was taken to the intensive care unit on Tuesday after testing positive for COVID-19.
Lata Mangeshkar, a recipient of the Bharat Ratna, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Dadasaheb Phalke Awards, was an icon of Indian cinema, having sung playback for an extensive list of Hindi films; she also sang in several regional languages including Marathi and Bengali. Ms Mangeshkar, who belonged to a prominent musical family, also composed music as well as produced a handful of films. She was popularly known as the ‘Nightingale of India.’