Asha Bhosle is an Indian singer who has fascinated the entire country with her voice. Asha was born on September 8, 1933 in a small village in sangli, Maharashtra to the Marathi family of pandit Dinanath Mangeshkar.She was the third child of Dinanath Mangeshkar and Shudhhamati. Her nickname is The Queen of Indi pop. Her father pandit Dinanth Mangeshkar was a theater artist and a classical singer. He trained her in classical music at a very young age .Her other sibling are melody Late Mangeshkar, Hridayanth Mangeshkar, Usha Mangeshkar and Meena Mangeshkar.She lost her father when she was nine years old. He died of heart disease. After the death of her father the family moved puna to Kolhapur and then to Mumbai. Bhosle and her elder sister Lata Mangeshkar began singing and acting in movies to support the family.
At the age of sixteen Bhosle got married with thirty one years old Ganpatrao Bhosle secretly. They married against their family wishes and had two kids. Ganpatrao was he sister secretary. The relationship with Ganpatrao made a tension between Lata and Asha. Their marriage she moved back to her mother’s home with two children and pregnant with the third children is Hemant Bhosle. He is a pilot. Asha’s daughter Varsha, Who is youngest child is Anand Bhosle, has studied business and film direction. He manages Asha’s career .She was one of the legendary playback singer.
Asha’s career started in 1943.Most of her music consists of ghazals, traditional classical music, Quwwalis, Bhajans, film music, folk music, and Rabindra sangeet. She sung in fourteen languages including Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Urdu, Punjabi, Marathi, Nepali, English, Czech and Russian. She has sung over 10,000songs.She is one of the greatest playback singers in Bollywood history. She did playback singing for more than 1000 movies. The age of ten she sang her first film song Chala Chala Nav Bala for the Marathi Film Majha Bal in 1943. She faced a lot of struggle in her
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