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The voices of sisters Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle defined the past half century of female playback singing. As daughters of Pandit Deenanath Mangeshkar, a noted Marathi theatre actor, musician and Hindustani classical vocalist, the sisters, along with their siblings Usha and Hridayanath Mangeshkar, were introduced to music very early on through their father’s plays. When he died of heart disease, Lata, 13, and Asha, nine, started singing and acting to support the family. Mentored by a close family friend and film producer Winayak Damodar Karnataki, they decided to move from Indore to Mumbai, where both would start with playback singing for Marathi films, Lata in ’42 and Asha in ’43, before moving on to Hindi cinema. Significantly, however, despite the clear differences and seemingly demarcated territories, the sisters sang within the same tonal range and with a similarly childlike innocence. In the decades that they dominated the female playback industry, the sisters sang everything there was to sing. From February 2013, read Isha Singh Sawhney's essay "The Ladies Sing the Blues," on the old and new era for female playback singing: caravanmagazine.in/reviews-a…