Biography of asha bhosle songs collection

Known for her versatility, she has been described in the media as one of the greatest and most influential singers in Hindi cinema.

Asha bhosle children

In , she was honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award , India's highest award in the field of cinema. In , she was honoured by the Government of India with the Padma Vibhushan , the second-highest civilian honour of the country. The Guinness Book of World Records acknowledged her in as the most recorded artist in music history.

Bhosle is the sister of playback singer Lata Mangeshkar and belongs to the prominent Mangeshkar family. Renowned for her soprano voice range [ 10 ] and often credited for her versatility, [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Her work includes film music , pop , ghazals , bhajans , traditional Indian classical music , folk songs , qawwalis , and Rabindra Sangeet.

Apart from Hindi , she has sung in over 20 Indian and foreign languages. In , she stated that she has recorded over twelve thousand songs in her career, [ 15 ] a figure repeated by several other sources. Asha Mangeshkar was born in the small hamlet of Goar in Sangli , then in the salute princely state of Sangli now in Maharashtra , into the musical family of Pandit Deenanath Mangeshkar , who was Marathi and Konkani , and his Gujarati wife, Shevanti.

Deenanath was an actor and classical singer on the Marathi musical stage. When Bhosle was nine years old, her father died. The family moved from Pune to Kolhapur and then to Mumbai.