Kattassery Joseph Yesudas is an Indian playback singer and musician who sings Indian classical,devotional and film songs. He is widely considered one of the greatest singers in the history of Indian music and a cultural icon of Kerala. Yesudas is estimated to have recorded more than 50,000 songs in various Indian languages,including Malayalam,Tamil,Kannada,Telugu,Tulu,Hindi,Odia,Bengali,Marathi as well as Arabic,English,Latin,and Russian,in a career spanning six decades. He is often referred to as Gaanagandharvan. Yesudas holds the record for singing 11 songs in different languages in a single day. He has also composed a number of Malayalam film songs during the 1970s and 1980s.
Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra is an Indian playback singer and Carnatic musician. In a career spanning over four decades,she has recorded over 25,000 songs in various Indian languages,as well as foreign languages such as Malay,Latin,Arabic,Sinhalese,English and French. She is also known for her extensive history of collaboration with music composers like A. R. Rahman,Ilaiyaraja,Hamsalekha,M. M. Keeravani and with the playback singers K. J. Yesudas and S. P. Balasubrahmanyam over the years. She is cited as the Golden Voice of India by world’s Prestigious Royal Albert Hall,London in 2001 and Melody Queen of Indian Cinema by Radio Mirchi,The Times Group in 2016. She is honoured with the title First Ladies by the President of India in 2018 for being the first Indian woman to be honoured by British Parliament at House of Commons,United Kingdom in 2003. People of India fondly called her as Little Nightingale of Indian Cinema.
Malabar Gopalan Sreekumar,better known as M.G. Sreekumar is an Indian playback singer,composer,music producer,television presenter and film producer,who works predominantly in Malayalam cinema. He has sung more than 25000 songs in various Indian languages including Malayalam,Tamil,Telugu,Kannada,Hindi,and Sanskrit. He owns a music company named KMG Musics and the Saregama School of Music in Thiruvananthapuram. Sreekumar has won several awards,including two National Film Awards,three Kerala State Film Awards and 5 Filmfare Awards South. He was also honoured with the Harivarasanam Award by the Government of Kerala in 2016. His career as a singer spans over 44 years.
Unni Menon is an Indian film playback singer. He has recorded over 4000 songs in many Indian languages including Malayalam,Tamil,Telugu and Kannada. In the early part of his career,he spent many years as a low-profile playback singer. The turning point in his career came with the song "Pudhu Vellai Mazhai" from Mani Ratnam's award-winning 1992 Tamil film Roja,composed by A. R. Rahman. He has frequently associated with A. R. Rahman,lending his voice to nearly 27 popular songs from films like Karuththamma (1994) and Minsaara Kanavu (1997).
Pulapaka Suseela is an Indian playback singer associated with the South Indian cinema primarily from Andhra Pradesh for over six decades and is referred to as Evergreen Nightingale of Indian cinema. She is one of the greatest and best-known playback singers in India. She has been recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as well as by the Asia Book of Records for performing a record number of songs in different Indian languages. She is also the recipient of five National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer and numerous state awards. Susheela is widely acclaimed as a singer who defined feminism in South Indian cinema and is well known for her mellifluous vocal performances for over 50,000 film and devotional songs across South Indian languages.
Gayatri Asokan is a playback singer who works mainly in Malayalam cinema. She started her playback career with the song "Deena Dayalo Rama" for the film Arayannagalude Veedu for music director Raveendran. "Enthe Nee Kanna" for Sasneham Sumitra won her the Kerala State Film Award for Best Singer in 2003. Her other songs include "Chanjadi Adi" from Makalkku,"Thumbikkinnaram" from Naran and "Pularumo" from Ritu.
Malabar Gopalan Radhakrishnan was an Indian music director and Carnatic vocalist from Kerala.
Manjari is an Indian playback singer and Hindustani vocalist. Her first stage performance was with Shiva,the Kolkata - based rock band,when she was in class eight.
Shivagnanam,known by the stage name P. Madhuri,is a South Indian playback singer. She has sung songs in Malayalam,Tamil,and Telugu. She has twice won Kerala State Film Award for best playback singer.
Porayath Leela was an Indian playback singer,Carnatic vocalist,and a music director. She has recorded more than 5,000 songs in various Indian languages including Malayalam,Telugu,Tamil,Kannada,Hindi,Bengali,Sanskrit,Odia,Gujarati,Marati. and also Sinhale. She is also known for her extensive history of collaboration in the songs with Music Composers v.Dakshinamoorthy,MS Baburaj,G Devarajan,ghantasala,MS Viswanathan,K. Raghavan,Br Lakshmanan,LPR Varma,BA chithambara athletes,AT ummer,MK Arjun,Johnson,ouseppachan,ilaiyaraja,and with the playback singers KJ Yesudas and Ghantalasa over the years. Leela is known for her sweet and melodious voice that she named Ganamani. She was awarded Padma Bhushan in 2006. She made her debut as a playback singer in the 1948 Tamil film Kangkanam.
Deepa Miriam is an Indian playback singer of South Indian movies. Her debut film was Naan Avanillai. Deepa rose to fame with the song Kangal Iraandal in the Tamil movie Subramaniapuram.
Parvathy Soman is an Indian singer. She is best known as a playback singer in Malayalam films. She sings in Malayalam devotional album songs. Parvathy's career began when she won the Munch Star Singer Junior contest.
K. G. Markose is an Indian playback singer from Kerala. Markose,who is popular for rendering numerous Christian Devotional songs,has also sung over 100 film songs during the years 1980's to 2000's. Markose's music career was launched in 1979–1980 with the song "Kannipoomanam" in Balachandra Menon's Kelkkaatha Sabdham. After the success of his debut song,Markose became a regular singer in the "Ganamela" field. He has completed more than 3,000 stage shows in the country,as well as Europe,America,Australia,and gulf nations,among others.
Najim Arshad is a state award-winning Indian playback singer and music director,sung more than 500 songs in the Malayalam,Tamil,Telugu and Hindi film industries. In 2007,he won the reality show Idea Star Singer. He studied in Swathi Thirunal College of Music and holds graduation and post-graduation degree in music. He was the Rank Holder of University of Kerala in Bachelor Of Performing Arts. He also won the Kalaprathibha title 13 times at the district and sub-district levels during his early school days. He is a recipient of Kerala State Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer.
Amrutha Suresh is an Indian singer,composer,songwriter,and radio jockey. She attained popularity after her stint at the reality television singing competition Idea Star Singer on Asianet in 2007. Since then,she has sung and composed for several films and music albums. She has been a celebrity radio jockey on Radio Suno 91.7 with the music show Suno Melodies. In 2014,she founded the music band Amrutam Gamay
Sreya Jayadeep is an Indian singer. She has sung on music albums and films in South Indian languages. She has appeared on reality shows.
Radhika Thilak was an Indian playback singer who predominantly worked in the Malayalam film industry. She sang 70 songs for Malayalam films.
Gowry Lekshmi is an Indian composer,singer,songwriter,and music producer from Cherthala,Kerala.
Aroor State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala state in southern India. It is also one of the 7 state legislative assembly constituencies included in the Alappuzha Lok Sabha constituency. As of the 2021 assembly elections,the current MLA is Daleema Jojo of CPI(M).
Dr K S Harisankar is an Indian playback singer popular mainly in South Indian cinema. He is quite familiar to the Malayali audience through hits like Jeevamshamayi from the movie Theevandi,Pavizha mazhaye from the movie Athiran,Kamini from Anugraheethan Antony,Nee Himamazha,Vaanam chaayum,Aalolam and several others. Harishankar is also a popular figure in Indian Independent music,with his band Pragathi. The five-member band,comprising Harisankar,Abishek Amanath,Abhijith Sudhi,Precious Peter and Abin Sagar was formed in 2018. One of the latest feathers in Harishankar’s cap was singing the Malayalam version of Naatu Naatu,the Golden-Globe winning song from the movie RRR.
