Mumbai: The late, legendary singer Mahendra Kapoor will be awarded with the Lata Mangeshkar award on 9 January, 2008 at the Yeshwantrao Chavan Centre in Mumbai.

The award will be given by Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan and the DCM Chhagan Bhujbal to Kapoor’s wife Praveenlata Kapoor and son Rohan Kapoor.

Ruby Bhatia will be hosting the function and some of the senior singers from the industry like Ravindra Jain, Jagit Singh, Suresh Wadkar, Alka Yagnik, Udit and Deepa Narayan, Shabbir Kumar, Shaan, Madhushree, Jaspinder Nirula and Rohan Kapoor will sing songs  in memory of  the late singer.