Arkadu Parthasarathy Komala (28 August 1934 – 26 April 2024), commonly known as A. P. Komala, was an Indian playback singer. She has sung songs in

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languages.

Career life

She was a much sought after playback singer from the late 1940s till the mid-1960s in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada movies. She continued in Malayalam till the early 1970s whereas she recorded very few songs in Tamil and Telugu during the 1960s.

Carnatic singer

She was an 'A' grade Carnatic singer at

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Music composers she sang for

She worked under G. Ramanathan, K. V. Mahadevan, C. R. Subbaraman, S. V. Venkatraman, Viswanathan–Ramamoorthy, T. A. Kalyanam, M. S. Gnanamani, M. S. Viswanathan, C. S. Jayaraman, S. M. Subbaiah Naidu, T. R. Pappa, Vedha, M. K. Athmanathan, A. V. Natarajan, C. N. Pandurangan, R. Sudarsanam, R. Govardhanam, G. Govindarajulu Naidu, S. Dakshinamurthi, Ghantasala, V. Nagayya, Pendyala Nageshwara Rao, P. Adinarayana Rao, T. Chalapathi Rao, S. Rajeswara Rao, Master Venu, T. V. Raju, B. Gopalam, G. K. Venkatesh, Vijaya Bhaskar, T. G. Lingappa, Ogirala Ramachandra Rao, H. R. Padmanabha Sastri, V. Dakshinamoorthy, B. A. Chidambaranath,

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, L.P.R. Varma, G. Devarajan, K. Raghavan, P. S. Divakar and Br Lakshmanan.

Playback singers she sang with

She sang memorable duets mostly with Sirkazhi Govindarajan and T. M. Soundararajan. Others are A. M. Rajah, K. V. Mahadevan, T. A. Mothi, Ghantasala, Thiruchi Loganathan, C. S. Jayaraman, T. R. Mahalingam, K. R. Ramasamy, T. R. Ramachandran, J. P. Chandrababu, S. C. Krishnan, A. L. Raghavan, G. K. Venkatesh, P. B. Sreenivas, V. N. Sundaram, Mehboob, Kamukara Purushothaman, K. P. Udayabhanu, K. J. Yesudas, P. Jayachandran, Thankappan, M. Sathyam and Pithapuram Nageswara Rao. She also sang duets with female singers with most notably with P. Leela and K. Jamuna Rani. Others are M. L. Vasanthakumari, N. L. Ganasaraswathi, T. V. Rathnam, K. Rani, P. Bhanumathi, S. Varalakshmi, R. Balasaraswathi Devi,

Jikki Pillavalu Gajapathy Krishnaveni (3 November 1935 – 16 August 2004), more famously known as Jikki, was an Indian playback singer from Andhra Pradesh. She sang around 10,000 songs in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Sinhalese, and Hindi lan ...

, P. Susheela, A. G. Rathnamala,

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, Santha P. Nair, P. Madhuri, K. V. Janaki, T. M. Sarojini, B. Vasantha, Renuka, P. A. Periyanayaki, Vaidehi, Sathyavathi, R. Maragadham and G. Ponnamma.

Filmography

These are some of the films where she was the playback singer.

Hit songs

* Chandanapallakkil Veedukaanaan vanna * Velukkumbo kulikkuvan Kuttikkuppayam * Sarkkara Panthalil Thenmazha Choriyum (Recorded by Komala, but KPAC Sulochana sang it in theatres)

References

External links

HISTORY OF MY GURUJI KALAIMAMANI A.P.KOMALA
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