The Daily Kos community has yet to acknowledge the passing of cinema’s greatest unseen singer, Lata Mangeshkar. She sang hundreds of songs behind the curtains for hundreds of Bollywood films in a career spanning more than half a century. Here are just a couple of favorites, first from the Bollywood resurgence in what is perhaps her greatest era at the turn of the most recent century
And then a song from a more classic era
And finally, her haunting and transfixing rendition of one of the greatest Bollywood songs ever, which was originally recorded by her principal rival.
It seemed like she would have gone on singing forever if Covid had not ended her 92-year life in such an untimely manner