India's iconic playback singer, Asha Bhosle, is currently in Australia performing the second last leg of her Farewell Tour.
Bhosle, 82, who has been a celebrated part of the Bollywood music scene for seven decades, shows no sign of slowing down. She has performed over 12,000 songs for over 1,000 Bollywood movie scores.
"I never think about retiring, because you retire you die. So I'm not retired," she told SBS News.
So far on her tour of Australian, Bhosle has performed at the Sydney Opera House, The Art Centre in Melbourne, and was a guest at the Womadelaide festival last week in Adelaide.
Bhosle began her career in playback music in the 1960s, a time she said was very different to today, especially when it came to the larger budgets films have these days.
"That time Bollywood was very different. We have to sing only one mic, I'm singing then I duck and the flute comes in and violin comes in like that,' she said.
Over the course of her career, Bhosle has collaborated with artists across the world from Boy George, to Michael Stipe, to Australia's own cricketer, Brett Lee.
The track, 'You're the One For Me', is an original love song penned by the fast bowler himself. Bhosle recalls the experience as one of her career highlights.
"He's laughing and I'm laughing and he said how can I sing a love song with you, I said you don't sing for me you sing for another girl," she said.
Music journalist for Australian-Indian magazine 'IndusAge', Rajesh Sharma told SBS News Ms Bhosle is still in high demand within the industry.
"Every music director wants to work with her because her numbers help the success of the movies because Bollywood is songs and dances and people go to watch those songs," he said.
Twenty-three-year-old fan, Sravya Abbineni, thoroughly enjoyed her time at Bhosle's concert in Sydney, calling the chanteuse "a star".
"It was like being back at a '70s discotheque. Everyone was up and dancing and having a lot of fun," she said.
Ms Abbineni shared with SBS News this video she took of Bhosle playing the air guitar during the concert:
Though young people are just as enamoured by the vocalist, Abbineni did enjoy seeing several older "aunties and uncles getting down" to some of Bhosle hits from their youth.
"It was like they were reliving the '70s," she said.
On whether Bhosle would perform again Australia, she said:
"If they love me I will come again because any artist when people love him he loves his work."
In Bollywood, actors lip-sync and dance in musical numbers pre-recorded by playback singers.
Bhosle began singing at age 10, along with her sister, fellow playback singer Lata Mangeshkar, now 86.
