Bollywood playback singer, although she has a much wider repertoire. Her career
started in 1943 and has spanned over six decades. She has done playback singing
for over 1000 Bollywood movies and sold many records. She is the sister of
playback singer Lata Mangeshkar.
Bhosle is considered one of the most versatile South Asian singers — her range
of songs includes film music, pop, ghazals, bhajans, traditional Indian
Classical music, folk songs, qawwalis, Rabindra Sangeets and Nazrul Geetis. She
has sung in over 14 languages including Assamese, Hindi, Urdu, Telugu, Marathi,
Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, English, Russian, Czech, Nepali, Malay and
Malayalam.
Bhosle is believed to have sung over 12,000 songs. Though her sister, Lata
Mangeshkar was featured in the Guinness Book of World Records during 1974-1991,
for having sung the most songs in the world, reputed sources have introduced
concerns to its veracity, claiming that the Guinness counts were exaggerated and
Bhosle had recorded more songs than Mangeshkar. Bhosle herself pointed out that
she had made the most recordings by any singer - 12,000.
