Sisters Lata Mangeshkar-Asha Bhosle are the eternal wonders of the Indian music scene. Asha Bhosle, who has carved her own path in the music industry and has not confined herself to the shade of Lata Mangeshkar, who has grown like a banyan tree, is reaching the age of eighty-nine. This evergreen singer has been wowing the Indian music world for seven decades. Asha Bhosle has also entered the Guinness World Record for singing 11000 songs in 20 languages.
Asha Bhosle is one of the most recorded singers in the world who can handle classical music, folk songs, pop, qawwali, ghazal and bhajan with ease. Asha Bhosle is also the first Indian to be nominated for a Grammy Award. The country has honored this queen of melody by giving her Dada Sahib Phalke Award in 2000 and Padma Vibhushan in 2008. Asha Bhosle also sang in the 1977 Malayalam film Sujatha.
Asha achieved the fame she sees today through many hurdles and commitments. Before marrying RD Burman, Asha was married to Ganapathirao Bhosle at a very young age. Asha Bhosle has three children from that relationship. After her first marriage, Asha used to work day and night in her home and studios.
Asha's husband's monthly income at that time was Rs. After realizing that it was not possible to take care of the family expenses with that amount, Asha was pushed to work extremely hard without rest after marriage. So Asha decided to earn income to manage household expenses. After some problems with her husband, Asha separated from her first husband Ganapathirao in 1960. Then he died in 1966. After the divorce, Asha raised her three children as a single mother.
He lived in Ullilot, a little away from Mumbai. He had to travel by train to come to the city every day. After the birth of his son Hemant in 1949, he used to take the one-month-old baby with his mother-in-law and go to work to earn money for his livelihood.' 'Wake up at 5 o'clock. Do all the housework. Then he will go to Mumbai for work. This was my regular routine for a while,' said Asha in an earlier interview about the old days.
At the age of 10, Asha made her singing debut in the Marathi film Majha Baal. In 1948, Asha also made her debut in Hindi by singing the song Sawan Aaya.. in Chunaria. By the time Asha came to Bollywood, her sister Lata Mangeshkar had already established her own place in the music world. Asha Bhosle tried to create her own style without trying to sing or imitate Lata Mangeshkar.
