‘Nightingale of India’ Lata Mangeshkar has died

Lata Mangeshkar worked with nearly all of India's legendary music directors over a career that spanned more than 70 years [Al Jazeera]

Lata Mangeshkar, one of India’s biggest cultural icons and a singer who defined music and melody for generations across South Asia, has died at the age of 92, her doctor said.

Mangeshkar was hospitalised on January 11 after contracting COVID-19 and, according to Dr Pratit Samdani, she died of “multi-organ failure” at Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital on Sunday.