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Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra (born 27 July 1963), credited as K. S. Chithra, is an Indian playback singer and Carnatic musician. In a career spanning over five decades, she has recorded 20,000 songs [1] in various Indian languages including Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, Odia, [2] [3] Bengali, Marathi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Tulu, Rajasthani, Urdu, Sanskrit, and Badaga as well as ...
Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra (born 27 July 1963) is an Indian playback singer and Carnatic musician. [citation needed] In a career spanning around five decades, she has recorded over 20,000 Songs in various Indian languages languages such as Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, Odia, Bengali, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Marathi, Tulu, Badaga, Banjara, Urdu, Assamese, Gujarati and Sanskrit ...
Chitra's melodious singing brings a lot of fun to this song which is ably supported by Sirivennela Seetarama Sastry classy lyrics." [6] IndiaGlitz.com stated that "Mickey completes his album yet again with a traditional song steeped in classical-like music. Gopikamma is sung by Chitra to perfection.
She is a singer with 22 Filmfare Awards South Nominations, resulting in 10 wins for 3 different languages- highest by any singer (Shares the record with Shreya Ghoshal). She holds the record of winning Filmfare Awards South for record number of times in Malayalam & Telugu i.e.,6 & 3 times respectively.
Apart from film songs, Chithra recorded for many private albums of which Piya Basanti and Sunset Point became hugely popular and went on to win several laurels including the MTV Music Video Awards. The popularity of the former album made her known among the Northern part of Indians identify her as "Piya Basanti" Chitra. [2]
She has recorded songs for film music and albums in all the four South Indian languages namely, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada along with the Hindi language and has established herself as a leading playback singer of South Indian cinema. Some of her inspirations are Sujatha Mohan (her mother), Alka Yagnik and K.S. Chitra [1]
Many songs in Indian films are based on ragas of Indian classical music. This song list includes those that are primarily set to the given raga, without major deviation from the musical scale. This song list includes those that are primarily set to the given raga, without major deviation from the musical scale.
SIIMA Award for Best Female Playback Singer – Telugu is presented by Vibri media group as part of its annual South Indian International Movie Awards, for the best singing by a female playback singer/vocalist of a Telugu-language song. The award was first given in 2012 for songs and films released in 2011.