Anuradha Sriram

Anuradha Sriram
Anuradha Sriram
	Anuradha giving a special talk in Big FM in 2014
Background information
Birth name	Anuradha
Also known as	Chella Kili of india ; Queen of Pop in South India
Born	9 July 1970 (age 53); Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Genres	Carnatic; Hindustani Music;
Occupation(s)	Singer; Television personality; Dubbing artist;
Years active	1995–present
Website	anuradhasriram.com

Anuradha Sriram (born 9 July 1970) is an Indian carnatic and playback singer who hails from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. She has sung more than 4,000 songs in Tamil, Telugu, Sinhala, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali and Hindi films. she is fondly called as Queen Of Pop in South India music and ChellaKili in indian cinema .

Early life[edit]

Anuradha was born in Chennai to playback singer Renuka Devi and Meenakshi Sundaram Mohan. She did her schooling (I and II standards) in Coimbatore at the St. Francis Anglo-Indian Girls School, and later at the Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan, Chennai.^[1] She has a B.A and M.A in music from Queen Mary's College^[2] in Madras University and secured the university gold medal in both the courses. She was given a fellowship to do her Master of Arts degree in Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University, Connecticut, US.

She was trained by many esteemed gurus like Thanjavur S. Kalyanaraman, Sangeetha Kalanidhi T. Brinda and T. Viswanathan in Carnatic music and has had intensive training under Pandit Mannikbua Thakurdas for Hindustani classical music. She is also an accomplished Western Classical opera singer, having undergone intensive training from Prof. Shirley Meier in New York City.

While in Wesleyan, apart from learning and performing western opera and jazz, she also performed in many Indonesian and West African music concerts.

Career[edit]

Anuradha has performed extensively all over India and US, and has given many radio and TV programmes since the age of 12. Anuradha Sriram first entered the Tamil Cinema Industry as a child artist in the 1980 Tamil film Kaali.^[3] In 1995, she was introduced as a singer by A R Rahman for the song "Malarodu Malaringu" in the movie Bombay. Her first solo was for A R Rahman in Indira.

She specialises in Carnatic music and has sung in over 1,000 concerts worldwide.

Anuradha has several chart-topping Devotional albums to her credit. She also collaborates with her husband Sriram Parasuram on their Classical Music Jugalbandhi concerts^[4] and their hit TV programme "Elaame Sangeetham Thaan". She has also presented many music programmes on TV.

Having sung more than 2,000 songs in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam, and six north Indian languages, some of her hits are "Nalam Nalam Ariyaaval" (Kaadal Kotai), "Dilruba Dilruba" (Priyam), "Meenamma" (Aasai), "Acham Acham Illai" (Indira), "Phenk Hawa" (Ram Jaane) and "Pehli Pehli" (Zor).

She has composed music for the film Five Star and television series Sivamayam produced by Radaan for Sun TV along with her husband. She also worked as voice actor lending her voice for Kiran for the film Anbe Sivam (2003).^[5]

Awards and recognition[edit]

Dr. J. Jayalalitha Cine Award (1996)
Ajanta Award for the best female playback singer (1996)
Screen Videocon award for Best Pop Album (1998)
Karnataka State Film Awards for best playback singer (1999)
Vocational Excellence Award by the Rotary Club of Coimbatore Midtown (2002)
International Tamil Film Awards (2003)
West Bengal State award for best playback singer (2004)
Filmfare award for the best playback singer (2004) - O Podu from Gemini
Tamil Nadu State KALAIMAMANI award for her significant contribution to the field of music (2006)
Honorary Doctorate by the Sathyabama University for her accomplishments and contribution to the field of music (2012)^[6]

Albums[edit]

Chennai Girl (1997)

Personal life[edit]

Anuradha is married to singer Sriram Parasuram (whom she met at Wesleyan University).^[7]^[8] They have two sons named Jayant and Lokesh.

Anuradha's brother Murugan is also a playback singer.^[9]

Television[edit]

Year	Program	Channel	Language	Notes
1997	Premi	Sun TV	Tamil	Title song (with Unnikrishnan)
2001	Soolam	Sun TV	Tamil	Title song
2006	Airtel Super Singer 2006	Vijay TV	Tamil
2010	Super Singer Junior (season 2)	Vijay TV	Tamil
2011–2012	Idea Star singer season 6	Asianet	Malayalam
2013	Sun Singer	Sun TV	Tamil
2013	Surya Singer	Surya TV	Malayalam
2013	Sun Singer	Sun TV	Tamil	Season 2
2013	Surya Singer	Surya TV	Malayalam	Season 2
2014	Chandralekha	Sun TV	Tamil	Title song
2014	Star Singer 7	Asianet	Malayalam
2014–15	Sun Singer	Sun TV	Tamil	Season 3
2015	Surya Challenge	Surya TV	Malayalam	Team captain
2016	Sun Singer	Sun TV	Tamil	Season 4
2016–17	Sun Singer	Sun TV	Tamil	Season 5
2018	Super Singer 6	Star Vijay	Tamil
2019–2020	Top Singer	Flowers	Malayalam
2019-20	Super Singer 7	Star Vijay	Tamil
2020–present	Top Singer season 2	Flowers	Malayalam
2021-present	Super Singer 8	Star Vijay	Tamil

References[edit]

↑ "Alumni-PSBB Schools". psbbschools.ac.in. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
↑ "Queen Mary's College, the home of musicians, on song". B Sivakumar. 5 January 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
↑ Naman Ramachandran (12 December 2012). Rajinikanth: A Birthday Special. Kasturi & Sons Ltd. pp. 65–. GGKEY:A78L0XB1B0X.
↑ "rediff.com: Movies: A duet for life: Anuradha and Sriram Parasuram". Rediff.com. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20180108102952/http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib%3ALowLevelEntityToPrintGifMSIE_PASTISSUES2&Type=text%2Fhtml&Locale=english-skin-custom&Path=TOICH%2F2011%2F04%2F23&ChunkNum=0&ID=Ar03005
↑ "Honoris Causa". Sathyabama University. 26 April 2012. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
↑ "Fusion is the forte of this music couple". The Hindu. 18 February 2007. Archived from the original on 20 February 2007. Retrieved 31 January 2012.
↑ M. V. Ramakrishnan (15 September 2011). "Columns / M.V. Ramakrishnan : Musicscan – Contrasting colours". The Hindu. Retrieved 28 December 2011.
↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20011119164523/http://www.screenindia.com/20010511/rreview.html#news

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[1] "Alumni-PSBB Schools". psbbschools.ac.in. Retrieved 16 February 2016.

[2] "Queen Mary's College, the home of musicians, on song". B Sivakumar. 5 January 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2018.

[Ramachandran2012-3] Naman Ramachandran (12 December 2012). Rajinikanth: A Birthday Special. Kasturi & Sons Ltd. pp. 65–. GGKEY:A78L0XB1B0X.

[4] "rediff.com: Movies: A duet for life: Anuradha and Sriram Parasuram". Rediff.com. Retrieved 16 February 2016.

[5] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20180108102952/http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib%3ALowLevelEntityToPrintGifMSIE_PASTISSUES2&Type=text%2Fhtml&Locale=english-skin-custom&Path=TOICH%2F2011%2F04%2F23&ChunkNum=0&ID=Ar03005

[6] "Honoris Causa". Sathyabama University. 26 April 2012. Retrieved 10 April 2019.

[7] "Fusion is the forte of this music couple". The Hindu. 18 February 2007. Archived from the original on 20 February 2007. Retrieved 31 January 2012.

[8] M. V. Ramakrishnan (15 September 2011). "Columns / M.V. Ramakrishnan : Musicscan – Contrasting colours". The Hindu. Retrieved 28 December 2011.

[9] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20011119164523/http://www.screenindia.com/20010511/rreview.html#news

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