Early life and career highlights
Radha is born into the ‘Mangeshkar’ family that has given some of the best musical gems to the musical world. Her father Hridaynath Mangeshkar and her aunts Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosale, Usha Mangeshkar and Meena Khadikar need no separate introduction.
Radha's musical journey started at a young age of 7 with her father as her ‘guru’ and she has been performing on stage in Bhavsargam along with her father from the age of 9 years. Apart from Bhavsargam, Radha has performed in numerous other shows like ‘Shivkalyan Raja’, ‘Nakshatran che dene’, ‘Akshay Gane Abhanga Gane’, Dil ki Nazar se’, ‘Didi ani Mi’. During the course of this musical journey, Radha has performed alongside many other eminent artists like Hrishikesh Ranade, Jeetendra Abhyankar, Vibhavari Apte, Suvarna Mategaokar and Rajesh Datar.
Radha has recently started her own solo performance shows:
- ‘Kahe Meera Soor Kabira’... based on north Indian saints Meera, Surdas and Kabir. These songs are performed in Marathi and Hindi [3]
- ‘Rabindra Sangeet’... based on compositions of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore. The Songs are performed in Bengali language [4]
Radha has recently released her solo music album titles ‘Naav maze Shami’ with music composed by Hridaynath Mangeshkar and launched by Lata Mangeshkar. [5]
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