Amazon Quiz: Which legendary singer once did a concert to raise money for the 1983 World Cup winning Indian cricket team?

Bappi Lahiri

Kishore Kumar

Lata Mangeshkar

Manna Dey

Answer: Lata Mangeshkar

Lata Mangeshkar, coined the Nightingale of India, has lent her voice to over 5,000 songs in over a thousand Hindi and 36 regional films in a career spanning almost eight decades. Born on September 28, 1929, in Madhya Pradesh, her father Pandit Deenanath Mangeshkar was a Marathi musician and a theatre actor. 

In 1974, The Guinness Book of Records listed Lata Mangeshkar as the most recorded artist in history.

She is the recipient of three National Film Awards, 15 Bengal Film Journalists’ Association Awards, four Filmfare Best Female Playback Awards, two Filmfare Special Awards, Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award and many more. She was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1989. 

The singer has also received the coveted Officer of the Legion of Honor by France in 2007. Mangeshkar has also been credited as a music director, and, she has also produced a handful of films such as Vaadal, Jhaanjhar, Kanchan Ganga and Lekin.

The 92-year-old was taken to the intensive care unit on January 8 after testing positive for COVID-19. Her condition had deteriorated again and she had to be put on ventilator support.  She died February 6 in Mumbai due to multi-organ failure. She was cremated with full state honors in Mumbai. 

The Government of India announced a two-day period of national mourning and that the national flag will fly at half-mast from February 6 to 7 throughout India 

Lata Mangeshkar is survived by her four younger siblings — Asha Bhosle, Usha Mangeshkar, Meena Khadikar and Hridaynath Mangeshkar.

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