Anuradha Sriram (' Mohan; born 9 July 1970) is an Indian carnatic and playback singer and child actress who hails from the Indian state of

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. She has sung more than 3500 songs in

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, Telugu, Sinhala,

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, Bengali and

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films.

Early life

Anuradha was born in

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to playback singer Renuka Devi and Meenakshi Sundaram Mohan. She did her primary schooling at

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. She then studied at Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan,

. She has a B.A and M.A in music from Queen Mary's College, Chennai of

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and secured the university gold medal in both the courses. She was given a fellowship to do her Master of Arts degree in Ethnomusicology and Composition from

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Career

Anuradha has performed extensively all over India and the US, and has given many radio and TV programmes since the age of 12. Anuradha Sriram first entered the Tamil Cinema Industry as a child artist in the 1980 Tamil film Kaali. In 1995, she was introduced as a singer by A R Rahman for the song "Malarodu Malaringu" in the movie ''

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''. Her first solo was for A R Rahman in '' Indira''. She specialises in Carnatic music and has sung in over 1,000 concerts worldwide. Anuradha has several Devotional albums to her credit. She also collaborates with her husband Sriram Parasuram on their classical music Jugalbandhi concerts and their TV programme ''Elaame Sangeetham Thaan''. She has also presented many music programmes on TV. Having sung more than 2,000 songs in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam, and six North Indian languages, some of her hits are "Nalam Nalam Ariyaaval" (''Kaadal Kotai''), "Dilruba Dilruba" (''Priyam''), "Meenamma" (''

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''), "Acham Acham Illai" ('' Indira''), "Phenk Hawa" ('' Ram Jaane'') and "Pehli Pehli" (''Zor''). In Bollywood most of her hits were from collaboration with Anu Malik. She has composed music for the film ''

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'' and television series ''Sivamayam'' produced by Radaan for Sun TV along with her husband. She also worked as a voice actor lending her voice for Kiran for the film ''Anbe Sivam'' (2003).

Awards and recognition

* Karnataka State Film Awards for best playback singer (1999) * International Tamil Film Awards (2003) *

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award for the best playback singer (2004) - O Podu from Gemini * Honorary Doctorate by the Sathyabama University for her accomplishments and contribution to the field of music (2012)

Albums

* Chennai Girl (1997)

Personal life

Anuradha is married to singer Sriram Parasuram (whom she met at

). They have two sons named Jayant and Lokesh. Anuradha's brother Murugan is also a playback singer.

Television

References

External links

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