Remembering Lata Mangeshkar, the queen of Indian playback singers, born September 28, 1929, in Indore, India, and died on February 6, 2022, at the age of 92. Lata’s father, her first teacher, was a classical singer and theater actor, and she is the oldest sibling of five, including famous playback singer Asha Bhosle. In a career spanning from 1942 to the present, Lata has recorded over 1,000 Hindi film songs, as well as many regional Indian and foreign languages totaling 34,000 songs in her career. She has been awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award (1989), India’s highest award for cinema. In 2012, Lata was the second vocalist to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian honor. Known for a 3-octave range, she once commented, “People won’t believe this. But I never liked singing at that high pitch. I do not know whether I should call it my good fortune. But composers loved to have me sing at an impossibly high pitch. When I protested, they would say that the high-pitched compositions were only possible because I was there to sing them. So, it became a kind of responsibility for me to carry those steep notes.” Some of her most famous songs include Satyam Shivam Sundaram’, ‘Ae Mere Watan Ke Logon’, and ‘Allah Tero Naam’.