Kishor Kumar & Lata Mangeshkar

Kishor Kumar & Lata Mangeshkar

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About Kishor Kumar & Lata Mangeshkar

Kishore Kumar* (August 4, 1929 - October 13, 1987), born as Abhas Kumar Ganguly, was an Indian film playback singer and actor. Kishore is widely acknowedged as one of the finest Indian male playback singers of all time, along with Mohammed Rafi and Mukesh. In addition to singing and acting, Kishore Kumar achieved notable successes as a lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenwriter and scriptwriter. He has sung in many Indian languages including Hindi, Bengali (his mother tongue), Marathi, Assamese, Gujarati, Kannada, Bhojpuri, Malayalam and Oriya. Lata Mangeshkar* (born September 28, 1929) is a singer from India with a career that has spanned more than seven decades. She is one of the only two singers (and the only playback singer) to have been awarded the Bharat Ratna, the nation's highest civilian honour (the other being legendary classical vocalist M.S. Subbulakshmi). Although she sang mainly for Hindi and Marathi films, Lata Mangeshkar's popularity and influence transcends barriers of region and language. She has sung in thirty-five major Indian languages. Lata is also popularly referred to as the 'Nightingale of India' and continues to sing to date in Indian cinema. Together Lata and Kishore have sung some of the most famous duet songs in the Indian film industry. Their timeline ranges from the black and white era to the recent past. *Source: Wikipedia.org

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