Artist: Asha Bhosle
Genre(s):
Folk
Soundtrack
Indie
Discography:
Asha Bhosle
Year: 2007
Tracks: 9
You've Stolen My Heart: Songs from R.D. Burman's Bollywood
Year: 2005
Tracks: 12
The Rough Guide to Asha Bhosle
Year: 2003
Tracks: 16
Meraj-E-Ghazal
Year: 1984
Tracks: 12
Sister of the most influential voice of India, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle was born September 8, 1933. In April 1942 her don Dinath Mangeshkar died, causing turbulence in the family which moved from Pune to Kolhapur and in turn to Bombay. Around the age of ten she apparently sang her offset film song in the Marathi film Majha Bal. Asha Bhosle has since sung in virtually every Indian linguistic process, in Russian and Malay, has sung Rabindra Sangeet (the songs of Bengali poet Tagore), has sung with the bhangra grouping Alaap, the Indian rap act Baba Sehgal and Boy George, the former star vocalist of the British pop up grouping Culture Club. Cassette compilations and recyclings of her crop ar legion.
To commemorate her 60th birthday in 1993, for object lesson, EMI India released trey cassette sets of her work -- the set of devotional corporeal Bala Main Bairagan Hoongi (STHVS 65107), a set of non-film ghazals by composers such as Ghulam Ali, R.D. Burman and Nazar Hussain called The Golden Collection Memorable Ghazals (STHV 63173/4), and The Golden Collection: The Ever Versatile Asha Bhosle (STHV 62197/62200), a 44-song anthology of popular film hits. To no small degree, her success pot be attributed to her versatility. She has successfully song dynasty in many dissimilar voices and in many dissimilar styles.
