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Here is a beautiful famous Hindi song (that
was featured in the 2004 movie "Eternal
Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind" with Jim
Carrey) by the incredible Indian singer Lata
Mangeshkar.
Born September 28, 1929 in Indore, Lata
Mangeshkar has a career that has spanned more
than six decades. She has been active in all
walks of Indian popular and light classical
music having sung film songs, ghazals,
bhajans and pop. She is the supreme voice of
popular Indian music, an Indian institution.
Many of her performances are considered
timeless and undatable, although her voice
has changed and matured over the years. In
effect she sang the soundtrack for millions
of Indians' lives. Until the 1991 edition,
when her entry disappeared, the Guinness Book
of Records listed her as the most recorded
artist in the world with not less than 30 000
solo, duet and chorus-backed songs recorded
in 35 Indian languages between 1948 and 1987.
Today the number might have reached 40 000!
By 1990 she supposedly had worked on over
2000 film soundtracks as a playback singer -
meaning she pre-recorded the songs to which
the films' leading ladies lip-synched.
The Royal Albert Hall, London, has recorded
the graph of Lata's voice, that has a range
of 3 octaves.
Lata is also popularly referred to as the
"Nightingale of India" and continues to sing
to date in Indian cinema.
Enjoy this dulcet, hypnotic voice!
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