After Oscars, Grammy Awards omit Lata Mangeshkar from ‘In Memoriam’ part

By PTI

MUMBAI: Fans of Lata Mangeshkar are dissatisfied after the melody queen was not included within the ‘In Memoriam’ part of the sixty fourth Annual Grammy Awards.

The absence of the legendary Indian playback singer from the 2022 Grammys ceremony, held on early Monday morning in Las Vegas, comes every week after the Academy Awards unnoticed Mangeshkar from its homage section as properly.

Mangeshkar, the voice of generations of Indians, died on January 6 attributable to a number of organ failures. She was 92.

The followers took to Twitter to criticise the Recording Academy, the establishment that conducts Hollywood’s largest musical awards evening, for omitting Mangeshkar’s identify.

Calling out the Grammys for honouring solely American music, a person mentioned the occasion felt “futile and insignificant”.

“A little unrelated, but when they were paying tributes to artists who passed away this year and there was no mention of Lata Mangeshkar- India’s most loved singer, it all felt so futile and insignificant. These shows have no regard for ‘global’ music- only American.”

Another wrote: “So both the Oscars and the Grammys failed to honor the late great Lata Mangeshkar in their respective memoriam segments? That’s a shame. #GrammyAwards #Oscars”

A tweeple mentioned not simply Mangeshkar, the Grammys additionally unnoticed veteran music composer Bappi Lahiri (69).

Lahiri died of obstructive sleep apnea on January 15, days after Mangeshkar’s demise.

“#GRAMMYs didn’t pay tribute to the greatest singer of Indian history: #LataMangeshkar or #bappilahiri.”

The ‘In Memoriam’ section of the Grammys paid tributes to legendary drummer of Foo Fighters Taylor Hawkins, Hollywood performing greats Sidney Poitier and Betty White, singer-actors Meat Loaf, Vicente Fernandez, jazz composer Chick Corea, amongst many others.

According to ETOnline, whereas the present reportedly started with a listing of a whole bunch of names to presumably embrace, the size of the section required them to pare down the ultimate listing of these to be included.

A way more complete listing is featured on the GRAMMYs web site, which additionally doesn’t point out Mangeshkar or Lahiri.

Last week, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which organises the Academy Awards, had additionally unnoticed cinema icon Dilip Kumar from its ‘In Memoriam’ listing.

However, at its 2022 version, the British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTA) featured Mangeshkar within the ‘In Memoriam’ section and described the music icon as “an Indian playback singer, who recorded an estimated 25,000 songs for more than 1,000 Hindi films over a career spanning 70 years”.