Key facts
- Born
- 27 July 1963, Thiruvananthapuram
- State of birth
- Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
- Sector
- Playback singers
- Profession
- Indian playback singer
- Gender
- Female
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Biography
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 such as Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, Odia, Bengali, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Awadhi, Marathi, Tulu, Badaga, Braj, Banjara, Urdu, Assamese, Gujarati, Manipuri and Sanskrit, as well as foreign languages such as Malay, Latin, Arabic, Sinhalese, English and French.
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Timeline
- 1963Born in Thiruvananthapuram
- 2005Awarded the Padma Shri in arts
- 2005Awarded the National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer
- 2018Awarded the Rashtrapati Award
- 2021Awarded the Padma Bhushan
Sources & licences
- English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) · 3/5
- हिंदी विकिपीडिया (CC BY-SA 4.0) · 3/5
- Wikidata (CC0) · 3/5
- Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Aneezone at ml.wikipedia