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Kavita Krishnamurthi
Sharada Krishnamurthy, popularly known as Kavita Krishnamurthy or Kavita Subramaniam, is an Indian playback and classical singer. She has recorded 50,000 songs in 45 various Indian languages including Hindi, Bengali language, Bengali, Kannada, Rajasthani language, Rajasthani, Bhojpuri language, Bhojpuri, Telugu language, Telugu, Odia language, Odia, Marathi language, Marathi, English language, English, Urdu, Tamil language, Tamil, Malayalam, Gujarati language, Gujarati, Nepali language, Nepali, Assamese language, Assamese, Konkani, Punjabi language, Punjabi and other languages. She is the recipient of four Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer, Filmfare Best Female Playback Singer Awards (winning consecutively during 1995–1997), and the Padma Shri Awards (2000–2009), Padmashri which she received in 2005. She was awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy, Doctorate Honoris causa, (Honoris Causa) for her contributions to Indian music by Bangalore-based Jain University in 2015 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filmi
Filmi ("of films") music soundtracks are music produced for India's mainstream motion picture industry and written and performed for Indian cinema. In cinema, music directors make up the main body of composers; the songs are performed by playback singers and the genre represents 72% of the music sales market in India. Filmi music tends to have appeal across India, Nepal, Pakistan and overseas, especially among the Indian diaspora. Songs are often in different languages depending on the target audience, for example in Hindi or Tamil. Playback singers are usually more noted for their ability to sing rather than their charisma as performers. Filmi playback singers' level of success and appeal is tied to their involvement with film soundtracks of cinema releases with the highest box office ratings. At the "Filmi Melody: Song and Dance in Indian Cinema" archive presentation at UCLA, filmi was praised as a generally more fitting term for the tradition than "Bombay melody", "suggestin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
