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OBIT: Bappi Lahiri, Bollywood’s disco legend

In April last year, the singer had been admitted to Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital after testing positive for Covid, reports Asian Lite News Music composer and singer Bappi Lahiri, who popularised disco

February 16, 2022

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‘Inheritance’: Unique gems for new generation

One of India’s best-known violinists who has been giving solo performances since the age of six, he started learning violin from his father, the well-known Qawwali singer — Shambhu of ‘Shankar-Shambhu Qawwal’

February 14, 2022

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‘Presence of good curators missing in the ecosystem’

For someone who also co-founded the Indian Music Academy decades back, she says that at that time she felt that a body for the musicians, of the musicians, and by the musicians

February 14, 2022

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A little-known side of the nightingale

Celebrated music composer Vanraj Bhatia always said, “Lata is a composers dream”, which no one will dispute. How many of the film music connoisseurs, however, know that Lata Mangeshkar was also a

February 6, 2022

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How Lata Mangeshkar took on Bollywood celebs

‘Lata Mangeshkar… in her own voice’ (Niyogi Books) is a collection of fascinating conversations between Lata Mangeshkar and Nasreen Munni Kabir, an India-born TV producer, director and author based in the UK.

February 6, 2022

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India’s Melody Queen, a beacon of inspiration

Death has only removed her physically. The legacies she leaves behind will outlive her for decades, writes Quaid Najmi Though anticipated, when it became official that the Melody Queen of India, Lata

February 6, 2022

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Nightingale falls silent

One of India’s most loved voices, Lata Mangeshkar was the recipient of three National Film Awards, seven Filmfare awards, Dadasaheb Phalke Award, Bharat Ratna in 2001 and Officer of the Legion of

February 6, 2022

India News·Music

Al Wadood – A Musical Tribute to Allah

Indian singers Afsal Ismail and Nafla Sajid release Al Wadood, a musical album in classical Hindustani, to pay tribute to Allah…reports Asian Lite News Al Asmaul Husna or ‘The Beautiful names’ is

February 3, 2022

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“Music unites everyone, it belongs to everyone’

‘Vaishnava Jana To’ was Mahatma Gandhi’s favourite bhajan and was sung religiously at the Sabarmati Ashram when Mahatma Gandhi lived there and is still a must…reports Asian Lite News The sarod rendition

January 25, 2022

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Lata Mangeshkar tests Covid positive, admitted to ICU

She is the recipient of three National Film Awards, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award and the Bharat Ratna, among other honours…reports Asian Lite News Singer Lata Mangeshkar has been hospitalised after she tested

January 11, 2022

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