Bengaluru Ramamurthy Chaya, known as B. R. Chaya, is an Indian, Kannada

playback singer A playback singer, also known as a ghost singer, is a singer whose singing is pre-recorded for use in films. Playback singers record songs for soundtracks, and actors or actresses lip-sync the songs for cameras; the actual singer does not app ...

, stage performer and a popular Sugama Sangeetha singer from

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state. She has performed pop, folk, devotional and bhavageethe (light music). She is recipient of

Rajyotsava Prashasti The Rajyotsava Prashasti or Rajyotsava Awards, the second highest civilian honor of the Karnataka state of India are conferred annually by the Karnataka Government on the occasion of the establishment of the state on 1 November celebrated as t ...

from the State

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and also

Karnataka State Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer Karnataka State Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer is a state film award of the Indian state of Karnataka given during the annual Karnataka State Film Awards. The award honours female singers for their work Kannada language films. Super ...

Early days and debut

Chaya was born to Ramamurthy and S. G. Janaki. she worked as a watch mechanic for a few years in HMT after doing a course in

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at RV College, and later represented

at a

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national competition in

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. She is currently a judge on ''Gaana Chandana'' and has been doing virtual concerts since the outbreak of the

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Chaya is the first singer to receive the

for the song "''Ruthumana samputadi''" from the movie " Kadina Benki, Kaadina Benki" in 1988.

filmography

1980s

Awards and recognitions

* 2010 – Karnataka Rajyotsava Prashasti * 1988 –

– Song: ''Ruthumana samputadi'' from ''Kaadina Benki'' * 1995 –

– Song: ''Ibbani tabbida ileyali'' from ''Rashmi''

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