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In 2005 Lata Mangeshkar designed a jewellery collection called Swaranjali which was crafted by Adora an Indian diamond export company. She started taking lessons in Hindustani classical music from Ustad Amanat Ali Khan. After Vinayak's death in 1948 music director Ghulam Haider mentored her as a singer.

She has recorded songs for over a thousand Hindi films and has sung songs in over thirty-six regional Indian languages and foreign languages though primarily in Hindi. Lata Mangeshkar [About this sound] pronunciation (help·info) (born 28 September 1929) is an Indian singer and occasional music-composer.