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INDIA: Singer and cultural icon, Lata Mangeshkar, dies at 92

BOLLYWOOD singer Lata Mangeshkar died at the age of 92, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced yesterday.

“I am anguished beyond words. The kind and caring Lata Didi has left us. She leaves a void in our nation that cannot be filled,” Modi wrote on Twitter.

The singer died of multiple organ failure at Breach Candy hospital in Mumbai, her doctor Pratit Samdani told reporters. She was hospitalized on January 11 after contracting COVID-19.

Born in Maharashtra on September 28, 1929, Mangeshkar had a singing career that spanned more than 73 years and sang an estimated 15,000 songs in 36 languages.

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