Bindhumalini Narayanaswamy or simply Bindhumalini is an Indian singer, composer, and graphic designer. She has received National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer (2018) and Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer - Kannada (2019) for her songs in the movie

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. She has composed and recorded songs for films and albums in Tamil, Hindi, and Kannada languages.

Personal life

Bindumalini was born in Chennai in a musical family. Her mother N. Vishalakshi is a graded Akasvani Carnatic singer and grandmother Seetha Doraiswamy was a known Jal Tarang instrumentalist. She holds a degree in Graphic design from the National Institute of Design. Bindumalini married Vasu Dixit, a vocalist from Bangalore, who runs a folk-rock fusion music band called Swarathma.

Career

Trained both in Carnatic and Hindustani music, Bindumalini was influenced by the poems of saint Kabir and the songs of Kumar Gandharva. Bindumalini's album ''‛Suno Bhai’'', a collection of Saint Kabir's poems, was a collaboration with

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. ;As composer Bindumalini scored music for the 2016 Tamil movie Aruvi with Vedanth Bharadwaj. In Kannada, she first collaborated with Ananya Kasaravalli and scored music for the movie ''‛Harikatha Prasanga’'' which won ''Best Film award'' at the 9th edition of

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, 2017. In 2018, Bindumalini composed music for the movie

which brought her a National award. Incidentally, most of her movies were women-centric.

Awards

* 2018 - National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer - ''"Mayavi manave"'' -

* 2019 - Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer - Kannada - ''"Bhavalokada bhrameya"'' - ''Nathicharami''

Filmography

In her movies as composer, most of the songs sung by Bindumalini herself.

Discography

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bindhumalini Indian women singers Kannada playback singers Kannada film score composers Tamil playback singers 1982 births Living people Best Female Playback Singer National Film Award winners