Name: Usha Mangeshkar
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SKU: 264028
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Usha Mangeshkar is an Indian playback singer and the youngest sister of the legendary Indian playback singer Lata Mangeshkar. Usha has lent her voice to the songs of many languages including Marathi, Hindi, Gujarati, Bengali, Nepali, Bhojpuri, Kannada, and Assamese..Ushas father belonged to Maharashtra, and her mother was a Gujarati. Her father was a Marathi theatre artist and a singer, so the trend of singing continued in the Mangeshkar family. Her mother, Shevanti, was the sister of her fathers first wife, Narmada, who died early.Her father died when she was six. After the demise of her parents, Usha and her siblings had to face many problems. To fulfill the family expenses, Lata Mangeshkar, being the eldest sister, started singing to earn their livelihood. Usha is the youngest among four sisters. Usha Mangeshkar with her siblings.Usha Mangeshkar is also an animal lover. Usha Mangeskar holding her pet.While growing up, Usha developed an interest in singing, and she went on to pursue singing as a career just like her elder sisters, Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle.She started playback singing in the year 1953. Earlier, she began her singing career with some low budget movies, which later brought her success.The song Mai to Aarti from the film Jai Santoshi Maa (1975) made her a household name in India.Usha was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree by Maharashtras Education Minister in Pune (2019).She has a keen interest in painting, and she believes that painting and singing are very closely related. According to Usha, she used to draw paintings while listening to music. Having such a keen interest in painting, Usha, in one of her interviews, said that before singing a song, she usually draws an image in her mind about the scene and its situation in the movie, but later, if the scene doesnt resemble her imagination, then it becomes a disappointment to her. For instance, after listening to the song Suhana Safar from the film Madhumati(1958), she figured a picture of a sea in her mind and made a sketch out of it. Later, when she saw the song in the movie, it was shot in a jungle, which was different from what she had imagined, so, it was a major disappointment to her.Usha Mangeshkar prefers folk music over other music genres. She has been singing for more than 60 years. She has also produced a musical drama Phoolwanti for Doordarshan (1992), which was based on a story by Baba Sahib Purandare.

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