Who was Gauhar Jaan? Before Lata Mangeshkar and Mohammed Rafi, this was India's first crorepati singer who lost everything and died penniless

When people think of India's greatest singers, names such as Lata Mangeshkar and Mohammed Rafi usually come to mind. However, the country's first crorepati singer belonged to an earlier generation.

Long before playback singing became the backbone of Indian cinema , Gauhar Jaan had already established herself as one of the biggest musical stars in the country. Gauhar Jaan achieved immense fame during the early years of recorded music. She enjoyed enormous financial success and became one of India's wealthiest performers. Despite her extraordinary achievements, her final years were marked by hardship, making her life one of the most fascinating stories in Indian music history .