Swarnalatha (29 April 1973 – 12 September 2010) was an

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playback singer. She recorded over 10,000 songs in 10 Indian languages including

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and other languages. Swarnalatha is referred to as '' 'Golden Cuckoo(Swarna Kokila)' '' In Indian Music. Swarnalatha's career began with the film ''

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'' (1987) which had music by M. S. Viswanathan. There after, she recorded many hundreds of songs for composers such as Ilaiyaraaja, A. R. Rahman,

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, Koti, Deva, Vidyasagar,

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and others. She received the

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for the song "Poraale Ponnuthayi" from the film ''

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'' (1994). She has sung more than 300 songs for Ilaiyaraaja and more than 100 songs for

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. This is only a partial list. Swarnalatha has sung over 10,000 songs in Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, Urdu, Bengali, Oriya, Punjabi and Badaga.

Tamil film songs

1980s

1990s

2000s

Telugu film songs

1990s

2000s

Malayalam film songs

Kannada film songs

Hindi film songs

Serial songs

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