"Nightingale" Celebrates her 80th Birthday - Lata Mangeshkar

Lata Mangeshkar is known as the "Nightingale" of India. She celebrates her 80th Birthday today, and the whole nation wishes her a very happy birthday. She was born on September 28th 1929 and has been awarded the Bharat Ratna, which is considered to be the highest civilian award.

She is known as the Voice of the Millennium, The Melody Queen, Pride of India, The Greatest Singer of all times, and the Nightingale of India. She is a true phenomenon, a legend in the Hindi film music industry. Her career as a playback singer spans over six and a half decades having started in 1942 when she was just 13 years old. She has given many gems to the film industry in her songs in over 980 Bollywood movies. She also sang songs in many other regional languages. She is featured in the Guinness Book of World Record for having made the most number of recordings in the world.

You can read all about her career and life here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lata_Mangeshkar

She has many classic gems in her old songs from the black and white era and had even some haunting melodies that one can never forget. The most popular song of Mughal-e-Azam "Jab Pyar Kiya to Darna Kya" will always remain special and remembered till eternity. It was filmed on Madhubala, the most beautiful actress of that era and the legendary actor Dilip Kumar. Recently the song from this film was made into color and it portrays the true beauty of that era, with splendor.

You can watch it here on You tube:

You can download her songs in MP3 format, also Free Bollywood Music Mp3, Online FM radio, Mobile Videos, Latest Indian lyrics all here:

http://thehindimusic.net/category/music/page/10/

Here is a list of Some of Lataji's Duets with Kishore Kumar and Mohammad Rafi, you can also get the lyrics of some of the songs of Lataji :

http://gaurav-kumar.tripod.com/duetlist.htm

Here are some links to more of Lata Mangeshkar Songs at this site:
http://www.indianmelody.com/latamangeshkar.htm

This website has some of her gems. You can download the songs for free: Check out the collection from the archives:
http://www.raaga.com/channels/hindi/artist/lata_mangeshkar.html

Here is an example of one of her haunting melodies from the old classic movies: Mahal, starring Ashok Kumar: Ayega, Ayega

Another of her gems, a very popular hit song from the past; Thandi hawa Kali Ghata;

She is a true gem of our nation. We wish her a happy Birthday! I am sure that there will be many fans out here who would like to add to this collection of her songs here! Which is your favorite?