Legendary Bollywood playback singer Asha Bhosle recorded more than 12,000 songs over a seven-decade career

Legendary Bollywood playback singer Asha Bhosle recorded more than 12,000 songs over a seven-decade career

 SUJIT JAISWAL

Legendary Indian playback singer Asha Bhosle, whose voice defined Bollywood music through the 1970s and 80s, died Sunday in Mumbai aged 92, her family said.

Two-time Grammy nominee Bhosle breathed her last at the Breach Candy hospital where she was admitted with complaints of "extreme exhaustion" and chest infection.

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