Usha Mangeshkar

1935–

Usha Mangeshkar is a playback singer with a career of her own in the shadow of an extraordinary family - Lata and Asha are her elder sisters, Hridaynath her brother. She sang in Hindi, Marathi, Nepali and several other languages, and did much of her best-known work in Marathi devotional music.

Her biggest Hindi success came in 1980 with the songs of Jai Santoshi Maa, which sold extraordinarily. In Deewaar she shares 'Koi Mar Jaye' with Asha Bhosle.