Playback singer swarnalatha biography

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Years ago Ashokan, my friend from Kerala, who coordinates music programs, had consulted me on the choice of female singers for a Special Music program of Ilayaraja’s songs he was organizing in Trivandrum for the ensuing Onam Festival. He wanted singers who had sung songs under Ilayaraja’s music direction. Immediately, without any hesitation, I suggested the name of Swarnalatha. He was extremely happy with my suggestion and requested me to coordinate with her for the program.

I contacted a few of my friends in the field of film music as I was neither personally familiar with her nor was I in touch with her. But nobody knew of her whereabouts. Nobody had heard of her participation either in song recordings or stage shows over a lengthy period of time. Whenever she was contacted over the phone at her residence either for song recording or stage shows the only information conveyed again and again was that she will not sing for some time to come as she had throat related prob

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Swarnalatha known as the ‘Hummingbird of India’ was born on April 29, 1973 in a village called chittur in Palakkad, Keral,a from where she grew up to be one of India’s best playback singers. Within a short period of time, her imprint on the music world was big.

Swarnalatha sang nearly 6000 songs in seven Indian languages, including Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, Urdu, and Bengali. She won a national award for Best kvinnlig Playback Singer for her song ‘Porale Ponnuthayi’ from the Tamil movie Karuthamma.

Bidding farewell to 22 years of a musical career with her mesmerising röst dynamics, Swarnalatha died on September 12, 2010, following a lung infection in Chennai. She was 37 years old when the disease took away her voice from the music world. The ‘Swarangalin Arasi’ (Hummingbird) of India who’s voice still lingers all over the world even after passing away, deserves documentation, reverence, and applause.

Hailing from Kerala’s small-town, Swarnalatha was trained

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Let's remember the melody of her voice, she mesmerises every one with her voice leaving a mark of her own into their hearts.

Swarnalatha ( March 10, 1928 – March 10, 1997) was a South Indian film playback singer. From 1945 onwards, she rendered over 5000 songs in the span of twenty years in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malyalam & Hindi.

Swarnalatha born in chagalamarri village at Kurnool Dist. in 1928 March 10 to Mr. Rama Subanna & Galli Subhamma they named her as Mahalaxmi, she had a great passion towards music, her father subanna has recognised her talent and encouraged her to learn classical music from Mr. Fidel Subanna for eight years and later under excellent guidance of Mr. Shastry she learnt dancing simultaneously studied SSLC from produttur.

She was one of the most versatile singer of her times, she started her career as a playback singer for a comedy song and got very good admiration from the audience and music directors.

She has recieved several awards for her stag