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Manna Dey, Renowned playback singer has been nominated for the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke award for the year 2007.

The 90-year-old singer will be conferred the award in a ceremony on October 21st by President Pratibha Patil. He has sung more than 3,500 songs. The award, named after the father of Indian cinema Dada Saheb Phalke, is the highest honour in Indian Cinema.

Manna Dey is one of the greatest playback singers in Hindi and Bengali films. Along with Mohammed Rafi, Kishore Kumar, Mukesh, he dominated Indian film playback music from the 1950s to the 1970s. He has recorded more than 3500 songs over the course of his career.