- Lata Mangeshkar has featured at the 84th spot in Rolling Stone’s 200 Best Singers of All Time.
- The list also stars the late Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
- Lee Ji-Eun, better known by her stage name IU, is also a part of the list.
Rolling Stone’s list of the 200 best singers of all time puts Lata Mangeshkar at number 84. The late Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is also on the list. Lee Ji-eun, who goes by the stage name IU and is a singer and songwriter from South Korea, is also on the list. Jungkook, the youngest member of BTS, is also on the list. The singer Celine Dion, however, is not on the list.
A fan wrote on Twitter, in response to Celine not being on the list, “You can’t have a greatest singers list without Celine Dion. She’s one of the greatest vocalists of our generation. Need I remind you.” Another person said, “I want the entire Rolling Stone Top 200 Greatest Singers article deleted IMMEDIATELY. How do you have Michael Jackson at 86, Amy Whinehouse at 83, and Celine Dion not on the list?!?” A tweet read, “Her voice is revered in the same breath as Mariah and Whitney, so I do not understand it!”
Rolling Stone, talking about Lata wrote, “The crystalline, eternally girlish voice of ‘the Melody Queen’ is a cornerstone of Indian pop music, with a global influence spread via Bollywood films, whose golden era she defined. Lata was the empress of playback singers, the vocal magicians who perform songs for actors to lip-sync in lavish movie musicals, recording over 7,000 such songs, by some estimates.”
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