Bollywood Lata Mangeshkar has died.
Gatekeepers News reports that Mangeshkar, one of India’s biggest cultural icons and a Bollywood singer has died on Sunday aged 92.
Mangeshkar who defined music and melody for generations with her lilting voice was hospitalised on January 11 after her doctor confirmed positive COVID-19 status, passed away this morning from multi-organ failure.
Mangeshkar was able to shape the continent’s music for more than 70 years through her classically trained singing voice and a range that extended over more than three octaves that also saw her voice recorded for music in more than Indian 2,000 films.
Her stunning voice has rung out of television sets, on crackly airwaves, and from movie theatres for most of independent India’s three-quarters of a century, which made many generations tag her ‘the Nightingale’.
On Twitter, Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrote, “I am anguished beyond words.”
In a statement by the Home Ministry, Mangeshkar will receive a state funeral, and the government will observe state mourning with the flag at half-mast through Monday.
The Prime Minister, while using an affectionate term for older sister, wrote “The kind and caring Lata Didi has left us.
“She leaves a void in our nation that cannot be filled. The coming generations will remember her as a stalwart of Indian culture, whose melodious voice had an unparalleled ability to mesmerise people.”
