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THE MAGIC OF LATAJI

o the world, she was Lata Mangeshkar; for me, she was my inspiration, my motivation, my goddess. She has been my role model since the age of four, around the time I started listening to her on the radio and began singing myself. As a child, I thought she was a fairy who sings, until my mother told me that this beautiful voice belonged to a

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