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By some counts, Asha Bhosle has been the playback singer for over 588 moves; she is one of the premier voices of Indian cinema along with her sister, the renowned Lata Mangeshkar. Bhosle got her start in film at the age of 10, in 1943, acting in a Marathi film called Majha Bal. Blessed with an innate gift for mimicry, the native Marathi speaker was soon singing in Punjabi, Bengali and Hindi; she had her Hindi debut in Hansraj Bahl's Chunaria in 1948. (Later in her career, Bhosle would take on Russian, Malay and other languages.) But success didn't come easily to the singer. Her older sister had won the hearts of most composers, and through the 1950s Bhosle took any song she could get, vying with Geeta Dutt for second place in the public's affections. Though the sisters shared a duet in the 1951 film Daman, their relationship was famously acrimonious during this period.
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Asha Bhosle is a name becoming more familiar in the west with the growing fashionability of Bollywood movies. Bhosle was one of the first and certainly one of the most prolific and successful singers of the songs which punctuate most Bollywood product. She was never seen... the stars of the movies mimed on screen to her recorded voice. This collection is a good one for the curious and anyone new to the genre: it's a broad selection and it slush and often crazy arrangements are typical of Bollywood at its best (or worst, depending on your point of view). It makes a good companion and comparison piece to her collaboration with Kronos Quartet.
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Asha Bhosle, the legendary Indian singer who became known to many Americans from the Cornershop song "Brimful of Asha," has a new two-disc CD, "Love Supreme." Cesaria Evora stays true to her signature storytelling sound with “Rogamar.” And Etta James’ latest album is a curious collection of covers.
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Asha Bhosle became a pop crooner with Rahul Dev Burman's Teesri Manzil (1966). When she first listened to the tune of the song Aaja Aaja, she felt that she would not be able to sing the Western dance number. R D Burman offered to change the music. She was offended a bit and took it as a challenge to sing the song. After rehearsing for 10 days, when she finally sang the song, an impressed R D Burman handed her a 100-rupee note. Aaja Aaja and other songs of the film, O Haseena Zulfonwali and O Mere Sona Re (all three duets with Rafi, another popular Bollywood singer), became rage of the day. Shammi Kapoor, the actor of the movie, once said – "If I did not have Mohammad Rafi to sing for me, I would have got Asha Bhosle to do the job".
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Asha Bhosle has won eight Filmfare awards (one special award for "Rangeela"). She won the award in 1967 and 1968, when Lata Mangeshkar still used to accept the award (Lata asked not to be considered for the award after 1969 to promote new talent). After receiving the award in 1977, Asha emulated her elder sister and requested that her name not be considered for the awards hereafter. She was later given the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001. Following is the list of her Filmfare Awards:
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Asha Bhosle was born in the small hamlet of Goar in Sangli, Maharashtra, into the musical family of Pandit Dinanath Mangeshkar. When she was nine years old, her father died. The family moved from Pune to Kolhapur and then to Bombay. She and her elder sister Lata Mangeshkar began singing and acting in films to support their family. She sang her first film song Chala Chala Nav Bala for the Marathi movie Majha Bal (1943). The music for the film was composed by Datta Dawjekar.
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