this context uthup said she loves speaking and singing in several languages such as hindi tamil bengali marathi telugu assamese and bhojpuri when i used to sing in trincas restaurant five decades back after belting out western tracks i would shift to a rabindra sangeet tagore song and the boisterous crowd would become silent said the veteran singer uthup said as a fan of american singer frank sinatra she had sent him a letter voicing her admiration about the legend where she had written this is usha i also sing hoping to meet you one day but there was no instagram in those days and sinatra never replied she said on singercomposer bappi lahiri who died last month uthup said he had given her numbers such as ramba ho and hari om hari which were instant hits but i think in his life people did not take bappida seriously why was he only labelled as disco king he did so many melody songs he made wonderful melody songs such as chalte chalte she said uthup was interacting with an audience after the launch of the queen of indian pop the authorized biography of usha uthup originally written in hindi by vikas kumar jha and titled ullas ki naav the book is translated by the authors daughter srishti jha