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Career

Pooja was born to doctor Vaidyanath and Gita, a bank employee in Chennai. After becoming interested in Carnatic and Hindustani music as a child, Pooja regularly took part in singing talent shows and first partook and won in the Telugu show ''Padalani Undi'' hosted by

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in 2006. She later competed in the ''Zee Telegu Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Voice of Youth'' in which she was crowned runner-up in 2008, before also winning the Vaanampadi competition broadcast in 2010 on Tamil language channel

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. In 2011, she finished as a runner up in ''

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'' and the opportunity brought her offers from the film industry. Pooja worked with

in his Hindi film '' Raanjhanaa'' and recorded for the song "Tum Tak", which a critic from Filmfare described as a "winner". Rahman subsequently recorded the song again with her in Tamil as well as the tune "Kaanavae" for the film's Tamil version, ''Ambikapathy''. Pooja has subsequently continued to sing popular songs in Tamil films including "Parkadhey" from ''

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'' (2014) and "Aalaporan Tamizhan" from A. R. Rahman's '' Mersal'' (2017).

Notable discography

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