Surmukhi Raman (earlier called as Suchithra Raman), born on 15 September 1983 in

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is an Indian playback singer from Tamil Nadu. She was brought up in

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. She occasionally writes lyrics. She is one of the emerging playback singers in South India. She has done playback for more than 150 film songs in four languages including

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. In addition, she has recorded a number of devotionals. She has performed in numerous concerts in India and abroad.

Early life

Surmukhi Raman completed her primary education in

and higher education at Vyasa Vidhyalaya Matric Higher Secondary School in

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, Tamil Nadu. She studied at

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. Her father S.V. Ramanan, who had been a semi classical singer in

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Career

Singing career

Surmukhi's playback singing career started in 2007 and has spanned over 15years. She started singing Light music shows at the age of 14. B.H.Abdul Hameed advised her to make her voice recorded in a cassette to distribute to the music directors. She has sung the songs composed by all leading music directors in the film industry including Ilayaraja,

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, Ganesh Raghavendra, Nallathambi, and Shyam Balakrishnan. She has sung for more than 15 movies in Tamil and Telugu under the musical composition of Ilayaraja. Her famous hit songs include "Pothum Otha Sollu", "Chinna Paya Vayasu", and "Paruruvayaa". Her popular song "Aandipatti Kanava Kathu" from the Tamil "film Dharamadurai garnered 26 million views on YouTube." Also her another song "Peechey Peechey" from the movie Aranmanai is featured as one of the "most popular Tamil songs from the best artists" in the Tamil section of the Emirates Entertainment (In-Flight) Magazine, October 2016. She is also a live stage performer who has performed more than 2000 orchestras.

Devotional albums

Surmukhi Raman has been performing solo devotional Bhajan, semi classical shows in North India almost every year for past 10 years. She has sung more than 500 devotional songs, encouraged by Mr.A.C. Dinakar, one of the senior most musicians in the industry. Her famous devotional albums include ''Siva Kavasam & Thirupallieluchi(2009)'',''Yoga Narasimhar (2015), Murugane Mal Murugane (2011)'', ''Kanikai Thanthidum (2017)'' and ''Mera Sairam (2019)''.

Voice trainer

Apart from playback singing, she is also appeared among the panel of Judges in the singing reality shows. Official voice trainer for "Sun Singer" consecutively for 4 years.

Discography

According to popular online media musical sources, the discography of Surmukhi Raman includes.

Television Title Songs

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Theme musical composition

Surmukhi Raman composed the theme music for '' Kanmani'' along with Sathyan Mahalingam and Regina.

References

External links

Movie Buff-Surmukhi

Music India Online-Surmukhi

Raaga.com-Surmukhi Songs
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