Kishore Kumar 4 August 1929 – 13 October 1987), born Abhas Kumar Kanjilal Ganguly, was an Indian film playback singer and an actor who also worked as lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenwriter and scriptwriter. Kishore Kumar sang in many Indian languages including Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Assamese, Gujarati, Kannada, Bhojpuri, Malayalam and Oriya. He won 8 Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer and holds the record for most number of Filmfare Awards won for that category. He has been awarded "Lata Mangeshkar Award" of Madhya Pradesh government and from that year onwards Madhya Pradesh Government has initated a new award called "Kishore Kumar Award" for contribution to Indian (Hindi cinema).
Lata Mangeshkar (born September 28, 1929) is a singer from India. She is one of the best-known and most respected playback singers in India. Mangeshkar's career started in 1942 and has spanned over six and a half decades. 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. She is the elder sister of singer Asha Bhosle, and Hridayanath Mangeshkar, Usha Mangeshkar and Meena Mangeshkar. She is the second vocalist to have ever been awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour
