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 around five decades,she has recorded over 25,000 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 as well as foreign languages such as Malay,Latin,Arabic,Sinhalese,Urdu (Pakistan),English and French.
Malabar Gopalan Nair 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. Regarded as one of the greatest singers in Indian Cinema,he has sung more than 2500 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.On October 2024 he appointed as the Director of the Music Academy of the UAE Government. 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.
Alappuzha,formerly known as Alleppey,is a city and municipality in the Alappuzha district of Kerala,India. It is the district headquarters of the district,and is located about 130 km (80.8 mi) north of the state capital Thiruvananthapuram. As per the 2011 Indian census,Alappuzha has a population of 240,991 people,and a population density of 3,675/km2 (9,520/sq mi).
Harini is an Indian film playback and classical singer born and raised in Chennai. She sings predominantly in Tamil films,besides other language films such as Telugu,Malayalam,Kannada and Hindi films. She was first noticed by music director A. R. Rahman at a school competition where she was one among the winners. Eventually,she was signed in to record the song "Nila Kaigiradhu" for the film Indira (1995) when she was 15. The song went on to become one of the popular songs of the year and Harini began to get singing offers from other leading film composers.
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.
Pulapaka Suseela is an Indian playback singer from Andhra Pradesh associated with the South Indian cinema for over six decades and is referred to as the "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 the first woman playback singer to receive the national award. She also has received 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.
Anuradha Paudwal is an Indian playback singer and politician who works predominantly in Hindi cinema. She has been described in media as one of the most prominent Bhajan singers and also as one of the most successful playback singers of 80s and 90s era of Bollywood. The recipient of several accolades including a National Film Award,four Filmfare Awards and two Odisha State Film Awards,she has been honoured by the Government of India with the Padma Shri,the country's fourth-highest civilian honour for her contribution in the field of arts. Her contribution in Indian devotional music and Bollywood Industry gained her the titles such as "Bhajan Queen","Melody Queen".
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,Marathi and also Sinhale. She is also known for her extensive history of collaboration in the songs of 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.
Parayakad,Alappuzha is a village in Kuthiathode gram panchayat,India. in Cherthala Taluk in Alappuzha district in the Indian state of Kerala. There is another place known as Parayakad or Parayad in Ernakulum District. This is a small area / block (muri) in Chittattukara Village in North Paravoor. Parayakad Village in Alleppey district is listed in the Central Government Indian Village Directory. Kuthiathode comes under the Pattanakad Block in Aroor Assembly constituency.
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 Jayathilakan,known by her stage name 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).
Kannamangalam Sreekumar 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. Harisankar 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. He lended his voice for the Malayalam version of Naatu Naatu,the Oscar and Golden Globe winning song from the movie RRR.
