Life's Important Dates Of K. Chithra's father, Krishnan Nair, was also her first guru. Send Wishes. Total Birthdays Celebrated. Recommended For You. Singer Musician. Tamil Telugu Malayalam Kannada Bollywood. Amitabh Bachchan. Kavita Krishnamurthy. Chithra Born On. Arjunan, A. Ummer, Berny Ignatius, M. She recorded a number of songs for the composer S.
Venkitesh and her maximum duet songs in Malayalam are with K. Yesudas and M. As of , she has won the Kerala State Awards for the record 16 times. Chithra is a recipient of six National Film Awards most by any female singer in India , eight Filmfare Awards South and 36 different state film awards.
She has won all the four south Indian state film awards. According to our records, K. As of June , K. In , Chithra recorded a song at a Singapore studio for A. Ranked on the list of most popular Playback Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous celebrity born in India.
Chithra celebrates birthday on July 27 of every year. Chithra, along with a Kerala-based satellite channel, Asianet Cable Vision ACV , jointly launched a fundraising organisation, Sneha Nandana, to raise funds for the welfare of retired musicians who have lost their careers due to changes in the music industry.
She launched this organisation on the occasion of her completion of three decades in the music playback industry. She said that the fund would provide help to the musicians with financial impediments and those suffering from health problems. A cultural event called Chithra Pournami was held on 15 February at Thiruvananthapuram to celebrate the 30th year of her career and also to launch this organisation.
Attendees included K. Yesudas, V. Dakshinamurthy, Sreekumaran Thampi, P. Susheela, Hariharan, P. Jayachandran, Usha Uthup, M. Arjunan, Johnson, Shyam, M. Jayachandran, M. Venugopal, Minmini, and Priyadarshan. In , she was honoured by Mr.
Home Playback Singer K. Chithra K. Chithra Playback Singer. Chithra Birthday Countdown 0 0 0. Chithra Biography K. Let's check it out! We will update K. Please check the article again after few days. Born in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, into a family of musicians, Chithra's father, the late Krishnan Nair, was also her first guru teacher. Her elder sister K. Beena and her younger brother Mano is also a playback singer.
Chithra received her training in Carnatic music from Dr. Omanakutty, passed B. Chithra was introduced to Malayalam playback by M. Radhakrishnan in who recorded her voice for films and private albums. Attahasam , Snehapoorvam Meera and Njan Ekananu were the first few films in which she recorded her voice. She also performed live concerts with K. Yesudas in India and abroad.
Since then, she has earned wide recognition by singing popular songs under the compositions of Raveendran, Shyam, S. Arjunan, A. Ummer, Berny Ignatius, M. She is regarded as "Nightingale of Kerala Vanambadi " and recorded too many successful songs in Malayalam. She recorded maximum number of songs for the composer S. Venkitesh and her maximum duet songs in Malayalam are with K. Yesudas and M. As of , she has won the Kerala State Awards for the record 16 times. Chithra made her debut in the Tamil film industry through the song "Poojaikketha Poovithu" from the film Neethana Antha Kuyil , which was composed by Ilaiyaraaja.
She was given the title Chinnakuyil after singing the song "Chinna Kuyil Paadum" from the released film Poove Poochudava. Director Fazil cast her for this song after Ilaiyaraaja got impressed with her song sung in original version in Malayalam for the film Nokkethadhoorathu Kannum Nattu in directed by himself.. Since then, she has recorded thousands of Tamil film songs composed by Ilaiyaraaja, A. Rahman, Deva, S.
She has sung huge number of evergreen hit songs in Tamil which are remembered till date. She is the only female singer who has sung the maximum number of songs for the Academy Award winning composer A. Rahman for his Tamil film songs.. Out of Tamil films from A. Rahman, Chithra lent her voice for films. She was introduced to Telugu music through the musical Tamil-Telugu dubbed film Sindhu Bhairavi in , then she recorded her first song in the Film "Pralayam" composed by K.
Mahadevan, where she sang a huming portion in K. Yesudas's song. Then in she recorded two songs for the film 'Vijrumbhana' Composed by music director Sathyam.
Then she went on recording songs in Telugu from to Ilayaraja, Chakravarthy, K. She went on to become a regular singer for M. Keeravani, Raj-Koti and S. Krishna Reddy and recorded all the songs in one film. Mostly all her life-time hits in Telugu are composed by M. She was a sensation in Telugu musical industry and had the fame of recording all the songs in one film from along with S.
From late 80's till 90's she has recorded so many hit female duets with P. Susheela, Vani Jayaram, S. Sailaja and Jikki in many films. Chitra is known for giving soul to lyrics in Telugu states. She has sung a song "Venuvai Vachanu" from the film Matrudevobhava under M. Keeravani's composition, which has turned into her life-time hit song where she sang with high expression and emotion. It is known that, while recording this song Chitra really ended up crying, she has sung the song with huge emotion giving apt soul to the song.
Chithra started her journey in Kannada cinema through the film Preethi released in Balasubrahmanyam was composed by G. In the same year, composer M. Ranga Rao offered her two songs in the film Aruna Raaga. Yesudas and composed by Bappi Lahiri for the Dwarakish directorial fantasy-adventure film Africadalli Sheela. For the rest of the s, she recorded songs for composers like Rajan-Nagendra, S. Some of her popular songs in the s were from the films such as Karunamayi , Suprabhatha , C.
From the early 90s, she was the most preferred female voice in Kannada industry and Chitra sang for most of songs released for the entire decade. The s saw Chithra being extensively featuring in most of the soundtracks composed by the popular composer Hamsalekha.
Starting with the song "Idu Maya Bazaru" from the film C. Throughout the s, she went on to become a notable singer in Kannada film industry with her perfection in diction and finesse. Her solos and duets with S. Balasubrahmanyam made her famous and she received great acclaim for portraying great deal of nativity in her singing. She continued to sing for notable music directors like V. Rajkumar, K.
Kalyan, Mano Murthy, V. Harikrishna, Arjun Janya and B. Ajaneesh Loknath. She was introduced to Hindi film music in , she recorded her first Hindi song, which was not commercially successful, but later in she sang a song in the film Love , composed by Anand-Milind, she sang all the tracks in the film and the track "Saathiya Tune Kya Kiya" along with S. Balasubrahmanyam , was commercially successful.
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