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Indian Playback Singers, Indian Cinema
The Indian playback singers are the prominent playback singer is a singer whose singing is prerecorded for use in movies. The playback singers record their songs on soundtracks, and actors or actresses offer lip-sync to the songs in front of the cameras. Movies produced in the India employ this format. A majority of Bollywood, Tollywood, and Kollywood movies in India typically include six or seven songs. Sometimes the songs have solo voice or at times they are duets.
Popular playback singers in India enjoy the same "star" status as popular actors, and talented music directors. The Indian playback singers receive high public admiration. S.P. Balasubrahmaniyam holds the world record in the Guinness for having sung the most number of song recordings by any singer. Lata Mangeshkar holds the similar record for a female singer.
Lata Mangeshkar was born on September 28, 1929 and is a singer from India. She is one of the best-known playback singers in the Hindi movie industry. Mangeshkar entered the Bollywood industry in 1942 and has spanned over six and a half decades. She sang in more than 980 Bollywood movies as a playback singer and has sung songs in over twenty regional Indian languages. However, majority of her songs are in Hindi. She is the elder sister of the equally talented singer Asha Bhosle and lesser-known singers like Hridayanath Mangeshkar, Usha Mangeshkar and Meena Mangeshkar. Lata Mangeshkar is the second vocalist ever to have received the Bharat Ratna - the nation`s highest civilian honor.

Asha Bhosle is best known as a Bollywood playback singer; her career started in 1943 and has extended over six decades. She has been doing playback singing for more than 950 Bollywood movies and sold innumerable records. She is considered one of the most versatile South Asian singers and her range of songs includes film music, pop, ghazals, bhajans, traditional Indian Classical music, folk songs, qawwalis, Rabindra Sangeets and Nazrul Geetis. Asha Bhosle sung in over 14 languages including Hindi, Urdu, Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, English, Russian, Czech, Nepali, Malay and Malayalam.
Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay also known as Hemanta Mukherjee was an accomplished Indian singer, composer and producer. Kishore Kumar was an Indian playback singer and actor who worked in countless movies. He also achieved notable success as a lyricist, producer, composer, director, screenwriter and scriptwriter. Mohammed Rafi was a versatile singer and sang in many Indian languages. He is primarily remembered for his Hindi songs, which still remain very popular in the Indian subcontinent and also among the Indian diaspora. Along with Mukesh and Kishore Kumar, he is remembered as one of the leading male Bollywood playback singers from the 1950s to the 1970s. He was honored with the Padma Shri in 1965.