Anuradha Sriram (born 9 July 1970) is an Indian carnatic and playback singer and child actress who hails from the Indian state of

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. She has sung more than 700 songs in

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, Sinhala,

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and

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films.

Early life

Anuradha was born in

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to playback singer Renuka Devi and Meenakshi Sundaram Mohan. She did her schooling (I and II standards) in

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at the St. Francis Anglo-Indian Girls School, and later at the

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, Chennai. She has a B.A and M.A in music from Queen Mary's College in

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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

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University,

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, US. She was trained by many esteemed gurus like Thanjavur S. Kalyanaraman, Sangeetha Kalanidhi T. Brinda and

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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

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

Career

Anuradha has performed extensively all over India and the 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. In 1995, she was introduced as a singer by A R Rahman for the song "Malarodu Malaringu" in the movie ''

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''. 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

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on their Classical Music Jugalbandhi concerts 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" (''

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''), "Acham Acham Illai" ('' Indira''), "Phenk Hawa" (''

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'') and "Pehli Pehli" (''Zor''). She has composed music for the film ''

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'' and television series ''Sivamayam'' produced by Radaan for Sun TV along with her husband. She also worked as a voice actor lending her voice for Kiran for the film ''Anbe Sivam'' (2003).

Awards and recognition

* 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) *

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(2003) * West Bengal State award for best playback singer (2004) * Filmfare award for the best playback singer (2004) - O Podu from

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* Honorary Doctorate by the

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for her accomplishments and contribution to the field of music (2012)

Albums

* Chennai Girl (1997)

Personal life

Anuradha is married to singer

(whom she met at

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). They have two sons named Jayant and Lokesh. Anuradha's brother Murugan is also a playback singer.

Television

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sriram, Anuradha 1970 births Living people Bollywood playback singers Indian women classical singers Singers from Chennai Kannada playback singers Tamil playback singers Wesleyan University alumni Filmfare Awards South winners Recipients of the Kalaimamani Award Women Carnatic singers Carnatic singers Malayalam playback singers Telugu playback singers 20th-century Indian singers 20th-century Indian women singers 21st-century Indian women singers 21st-century Indian singers Women musicians from Tamil Nadu Indian women playback singers