Her voice has been heard in more than 1,000 Bollywood films: The singer Lata Mangeshkar, known as the “Nightingale of India”, one of the country’s most important cultural icons, died on February 6 at the age of 92. She died in the hospital in Mumbai, where she had come in early January following a positive corona test, her doctor Pratit Samdani told journalists.
Death following Corona disease
Accordingly, the artist’s condition had deteriorated in the past few days. She died of multiple organ failure, Samdani said. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his sadness on Twitter. “She leaves a void in our country that cannot be filled,” he wrote.