Lata Mangeshkar With Love Her Twelve Golden Hits – 3AEX 5256  – (Condition – 90-95%) – Angel First Pressing – LP Record

Early life[edit]

Childhood photo of Lata Mangeshkar

Lata Mangeshkar was born in a Marathi-speaking Gomantak Maratha5 family, in the princely state of Indore, part of the Central India Agency (now part of Madhya Pradesh). Her father, Pandit Deenanath Mangeshkar, was a classical singer and theater actor. Her mother Shevanti (Shudhamati) who was from Thalner, Maharashtra, was Deenanath’s second wife. The family’s last name used to be Hardikar; Deenanath changed it to Mangeshkar in order to identify his family with his native town, Mangeshi in Goa. Lata was named “Hema” at her birth. Her parents later renamed her Lata after a female character, Latika, in one of her father’s plays, BhaawBandhan.6 Lata is the eldest child of her parents. Meena, Asha, Usha and Hridaynath are her siblings in sequence.

Mangeshkar took her first lessons from her father. At the age of five, she started to work as an actress in her father’s musical plays (Sangeet Natak in Marathi). On the first day in the school, she started teaching songs to other children. When the teacher stopped her, she was so angry that she stopped going to the school.6 Other sources cite that she left school because they would not allow her to bring Asha with her, as she would often bring her younger sister with her.