Asha Bhosle, the Indian singer known as the voice of Bollywood, died in a Mumbai hospital on Sunday, April 12. Her son Anand Bhosle confirmed the news to Indian media. The cause of death was multiple organ failure after a cardiac arrest. Raised in a musical family, Bhosle began her career singing in low-budget films. After breakthrough songs with O. P. Nayyar, she rose to international renown as a playback singer—the voice behind Bollywood compositions to which actors would lip-sync on screen. Her ineffable mix of classical virtuosity, coy flair, and occasionally risqué subject matter endeared her to a cross-generational fanbase that made her the toast of Bollywood for decades. Successive eras of film composers, from future husband R. D. Burman (who composed the vampy Bhosle classic “Dum Maro Dum”) to younger artists like A. R.…