Bindhumalini Narayanaswamy or simply Bindhumalini is an Indian singer, composer, and graphic designer. She has received

National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer The National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer is an honour presented annually at the National Film Awards of India since 1968 to a female playback singer for the best renditions of songs from films within the Cinema of India, Indian fi ...

(2018) and

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(2019) for her songs in the movie

Nathicharami ''Nathicharami'' is a 2018 Indian Kannada-language film written by Sandhya Rani, directed by Manjunatha Somashekara Reddy (Mansore) and produced by M. Ramesh, under the banner Tejaswini Enterprises. Jaganmohan Reddy and Shivkumar Reddy are the o ...

. She has composed and recorded songs for films and albums in

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, and

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languages.

Personal life

Bindumalini was born in Chennai in a musical family. Her mother N. Vishalakshi is a graded Akasvani Carnatic singer and grandmother Seetha Doraiswamy was a known

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instrumentalist. She holds a degree in Graphic design from the

National Institute of Design The National Institutes of Design (NID) are a group of autonomous public design institutes in India, with the first institute established in 1961 in Ahmedabad. The other NIDs are located in the cities of Kurukshetra, Amaravati, Jorhat and Bho ...

. Bindumalini married Vasu Dixit, a vocalist from

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, who runs a folk-rock fusion music band called Swarathma.

Career

Trained both in Carnatic and Hindustani music, Bindumalini was influenced by the poems of saint

Kabir Kabir ( 15th century) was a well-known Indian devotional mystic poet and sant. His writings influenced Hinduism's Bhakti movement, and his verses are found in Sikhism's scripture Guru Granth Sahib, the Satguru Granth Sahib of Saint Gar ...

and the songs of

Kumar Gandharva Pandit Kumar Gandharva (pronunciation: umaːɾ ɡən̪d̪ʱəɾʋə Kn: ಕುಮಾರ್ ಗಂಧರ್ವ; 8 April 1924 – 12 January 1992), originally known as Shivaputra Siddharamayya Komkalimath was an Indian classical singer, well kn ...

. Bindumalini's album ''‛Suno Bhai’'', a collection of Saint Kabir's poems, was a collaboration with

Vedanth Bharadwaj Vedanth Bharadwaj (born 1 October 1980) is a vocalist and composer born in Mumbai, India. He is a qualified guitarist from the Trinity College London and is best known for his work with songs and poems from the Bhakti Movement. Early life Vedan ...

. ;As composer Bindumalini scored music for the 2016 Tamil movie

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with Vedanth Bharadwaj. In Kannada, she first collaborated with

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and scored music for the movie ''‛Harikatha Prasanga’'' which won ''Best Film award'' at the 9th edition of

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, 2017. In 2018, Bindumalini composed music for the movie

which brought her a National award. Incidentally, most of her movies were women-centric.

Awards

* 2018 -

- ''"Mayavi manave"'' -

* 2019 -

- ''"Bhavalokada bhrameya"'' - ''Nathicharami''

Filmography

In her movies as composer, most of the songs sung by Bindumalini herself.

Discography

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bindhumalini Indian women singers Kannada playback singers Kannada film score composers Tamil playback singers 1982 births Living people Best Female Playback Singer National Film Award winners