Lata Mangeshkar's timeless, unseen stills will bring tears to your eyes: In Pics

India's Nightingale Lata Mangeshkar died at 92 on February 6. Her death was attributed to multiple organ failure after COVID as per Breach Candy hospital officials. Several political leaders, Bollywood celebrities rushed to pay their last respects. As we honour her memory, let's scroll through her timeless and a few unseen pictures.

She had been admitted to the hospital first in January and then again on February 5 when her health began deteriorating again.

It's a lesser-known fact that Lata Mangeshkar was first named Hema but later it was changed and named after a character's name Latika from her father's play titled 'BhaawBandhan'

Lataji started singing at the age of five and studied the fine art of music with Aman Ali Khan Sahib and Amanat Khan, established and famous singers of that time.

In the year 1938, she sang publicly for first time at the age of nine at the Nutan Theatre, Sholapur. She sang two Marathi songs and Raag Khambawati. 

Lata recorded her first song in the year 1942 for the Marathi film Kiti Hasaal but it never got released. 

Lata Mangeshkar composed music for the first time in 1955 for a Marathi movie called Ram Ram Pavhane. However, in 1960s she composed music for many Marathi films under the pseudonym of Anand Ghan. 

She became the first Indian in 1974 to have performed in the Royal Albert Hall, London. 

Lata Mangeshkar's name had first figured in the Guinness World Records in 1974 for having sung the maximum number of songs in the world. She was credited with singing about 25,000 songs.