The amalgamate of greatest singers ever witnessed in Indian music, The saga of almost a century. Euphony of puritans and the new waves. Rafi, Lata, Kishor, Mukesh, Manna Dey, Mahendra Kappor, Talat and finally one enchanting name in Hindi cinema, Asha. Amazon Brand - Myx Women's Schiffli Embroidery Ethnic Dress | Fit and Flare | Knee Length (Available in Plus Sizes)
Asha, Lata, and Suman Kalyanpur, three sisters who made it big in Hindi music. Asha’s songs though start in mid-sixties; her debut was in 1943 in Marathi and 1948 in Hindi.
Sixties became undeniably her decade with lots of duets with Rafi and Kishor and many solos of romance and sorrow. Asha was known for her sexy voice unlike the melodious Latha. Incidentally, this is been the pattern of Hindi singers. In eighties it was Alka Yagnik and Alisha Chinoy and now contemporarily, Its Shreya Ghoshal and Sannidhi Chowhan.
When she passed away yesterday, she was 92 with career spanning more than seven decades! The saga of Abhi na Jao chodkar of sixties, dum maaro dum of seventies and tum roota to of eighties, finally Senbagame, in Tamil in nineties. The Islamabad Accord in Peril: Iran Sets Fresh Conditions as Peace Talks Stall and Diplomatic Focus Shifts to Washington
A long span of career with numbers like tu chupi hi kaha make her literal stalwart of Hindi cinema.
It’s not one voice we have lost, one legacy ended yesterday. The legacy of OP Nayyar, to whom she sang maximum number of songs. She had won Dada Saheb Phalke award in 2000 and padmavibhushan in 2008. Despite eighties was not a very good decade for Hindi songs with the rise of copy cats like Mohammed Aziz, Shabeer Kumar, and Bappilahari, Asha still managed to give immortal songs like Kisi Nazar ko tera,
Luckily post 2000 again Hindi got back the talent pool, Kunal Ganjawala, Sonu Nigam, Shreya Ghoshal, KK and many more. From Assam to Bengal: Mamata Warns of ‘Trainloads’ of Outsiders as Election Acrimony Peaks
Asha might have been ended her journey yesterday; her song lives eternally. Immortally.