Lata Mangeshkar has turned of 87 years. She was born on 28th September, 1929 in Indore. Her father Pt. Dinanath Mangeshkar was an artist and singer. Lata ji was fond of singing from her childhood. In age of 13 she sang her first song in the 1942 Marathi film Pehli Mangla gaur. She entered in Hindi film with the film Apki Seva in 1947. She has song nearly 30000 songs. Indian Government has honoured Lata Mangeshkar with Padma Bhushan in 1969 and Bharat Ratna in 2001. In Bollywood, she has done National Awards, Dada Saheb Phalke Award and Filmfare. In year 2011, she sang last time in song 'Satrangi Parashoot', since then she is far from singing When lata was of 32 years in 1962, then she was given slow poison. After that writer Majrooh Sultanpuri used to come to her house and taste the food first, well who tried to kill her, this is not revealed yet. Her father was a famous name of the theater. Apart from gardens of Mango and Cashew, he bought a hill for 2 lakhs. Well he wanted to buy whole Goa from Portugees and time changed he he got addicted to alcohol. Then lata Ji had to work in small age. Madhubala used to say that Lata's voice used to match my voice, so she used to have a contract that Only Lata will song for me. Well, Lata used to feel that her voice matches well with Saira Banu. lata Ji favourite singer was Umm Kulthum. Lata has acted in 10 films, which are Badi Maa, Jeevan Yatra, Mandir. You may also know : Tanmay Bhatt on Lata Mangeshkar Box office collection 2016