Shweta Mohan (born 19 November 1985) is an Indian playback singer. She has received four

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for Best Female Playback Singer, one Kerala State Film Award and one Tamil Nadu State Film Award. She has recorded more than 700 songs and albums in all the four south Indian languages namely

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, Tamil,

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, she has also recorded songs for

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films and has established herself as a leading

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of South Indian cinema.

Personal life

Shweta Mohan was born on 19 November 1985 to a

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family in

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. She is the daughter of Krishna Mohan and playback singer

Sujatha Mohan Sujatha Mohan (credited as Sujatha) is an Indian playback singer who is popular for singing in Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu movies. She has also sung for Kannada, Badaga, Hindi and Marathi movies. In a career spanning 48 years, she has record ...

. She completed her schooling at Good Shepherd Convent, Chennai and graduated from Stella Maris College, Chennai.A timeless melody
She is married to her long-time friend, Ashwin Shashi. Shweta Mohan and Ashwin Shashi have a daughter, Sreshta Ashwin, who was born in 2017.Singer Shweta Mohan blessed with a baby n girl named Sreshta
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Career

Shweta started her training in Carnatic music at the age of 9. As a child artiste, she recorded for the chorus of the songs 'Kuchi kuchi rakkamma' (Bombay) and 'Accham accham illai' (Indira) in the music direction of A. R. Rahman. Shweta has sung for music directors in

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like Ilayaraja, A. R. Rahman,

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, M M Keeravani, M. Jayachandran, Johnson, Sharreth, Ousepachan, Deepak Dev,

Harris Jayaraj Harris Jayaraj (born 8 January 1975) is an Indian composer from Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He composes soundtracks predominantly for Tamil films, while also having composed for a few films in Telugu and two films in Hindi. He has been honoured with ...

, Yuvan Shankar Raja, V. Harikrishna, G. V. Prakash, Mani Sharma,

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, N. R. Raghunanthan, Manikanth Kadri, Devi Sri Prasad and Anirudh Ravichander. Shweta is being trained in Carnatic classical vocal currently under Binni Krishnakumar who is also a playback singer.

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