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Tanvi Shah
Born
(1985-12-01) December 1, 1985 (age40)
Chennai, India
Occupation
Singer/ songwriter
Awards
Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media
Tanvi Shah is an Indian singer and songwriter born on 1 December 1985, in Tamil Nadu, India.[citation needed] She sings in Tamil, Hindi and Telugu. Her first song was "Yakkai Thiri" for the movie Aayutha Ezhuthu.[1][2][3]
She has worked alongside A.R. Rahman and has sung a number of songs for him, including songs from Sillunu Oru Kadhal, Slumdog Millionaire and recently Delhi-6. She wrote the Spanish lyrics for "Jai Ho".[4] Her success with A.R. Rahman got her invitations from leading music directors and she has sung for Yuvan Shankar Raja, Amit Trivedi and other music directors.
She performed for the Yuvan - Live in Concert in January 2011 in Chennai and in Malaysia at the KLIMF in 2012. She also performed at Coke Studio concert at IIM Bangalore on 22 November 2013, featuring Amit Trivedi.[6]
She was invited to speak at the TEDxSF conference on Global Health on November 10 2012.[7][8][9]
On 20 January 2018, Ministry of Women and Child Development held a ceremony where President Ram Nath Kovind honored 112 women with the First Ladies Awards. Tanvi Shah was one of those women who received an award.[10] Other women include Bachendri Pal who was the first Indian woman to reach the Mount Everest summit, Radhika Menon who became the first female merchant Navy Captain, and many others.
She was diagnosed with breast cancer on 23 October 2023, and she successfully beat it a year later in 2024. [11][12]
Tanvi Shah expressed a firm belief that we all need to give back to society. She is actively involved with the Cancer Charities, Events and Fundraisers[13][14][15][16], and with the "End Polio" campaign of Rotary International[citation needed] along with Amitabh Bachchan, A. R. Rahman and Anil Kapoor. She has donated her song, "Zindagi", produced by JHawk, to the End Polio campaign album that features international artists such as Itzhak Perlman, David Sanborn, Ziggy Marley, Donovan and members of the Congolese band, Staff Benda Bilili.[17]
BMI Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media|Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media – 'Jai Ho' – Slumdog Millionaire (2010)
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