Asha Bhonsle’s multiple decade-spanning career

" Asha Bhonsle’s multiple decade-spanning career as anything short of prodigious."

In numbers, that means Asha Bhonsle’s the official record holder for being the most-recorded singer in history with 13,000 recorded songs, as acknowledged by the World Record Academy.

A little earlier, her album Precious Platinum made it to the Top 100 World Music Albums of all time. And she’s now collaborated with her grandson Chin2 Bhonsle (anyone recall the Band of Boys?) and he sure is excited about it.

So how did it come about? “I’ve been aware of his career and I know how tough it is, having been through the grind myself. In this field, there are so many singers with great voices. Very few actually get a break. At first, when he told me he wanted to make music, I scolded him,” says Ashaji.

And then one day, we were talking music and she just casually told me ‘let’s do a song together’ and then things developed from there into the album Sapne Suhane,” pipes in Chin2. So were there any issues working together for the first time? “Isko Hindi nahin aati thi,” laughs Ashaji

Out on Times Music, there’s a song off the album that features a 1950’s Elvis Presley retro-rock look. And for Chin2, this collaboration comes in quite a cool lineage. Among her many foreign song sojourns (Code Red, Boy George, Backstreet Boys, etc) probably the biggest one of them all, is with the iconic REM frontman Michael Stipe. ”