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One of India's most beloved singers, Lata Mangeshkar, has died at the age of 92.
Mangeshkar rose to fame at the dawn of Bollywood's golden age as a "playback singer", providing the singing voice to Bollywood's lip-synching movie stars.
She has a back catalogue of around 30,000 songs spanning numerous genres and a total of 36 languages.
BBC South Asia correspondent Rajini Vaidyanathan reports.