Kavita Krishnamurti
- January 11, 2024
- Indian Playback Singer
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Kavita Krishnamurti Biography
| Birthday | Jan 25 |
| Birth Year | 1958 |
Kavita Krishnamurti is one of the most popular and richest Indian playback singer who was born on January 25, 1958 in New Delhi, India. The actress was born as Sharada in Sharada’s Tamil Iyer family in New Delhi, India to T.S. Krishnamurti, a member from the Education Ministry. She began her musical training through the encouragement of her aunt Protimma Bhattacharya. She was able to enroll her in Suruma Basu, who taught her the Rabindra Sangeet. Kavita began formal training with Hindustani classic music, under Balram Puri who was a classical musician. At the age of eighteen, Kavita won a gold medal in a music contest. She was awarded numerous medals at the Inter-Ministry Classical Competition in New Delhi during the 1960s.
She was born in 1978 and was the first to have recorded in the Kannada tune “Ondanondu kaaladaga” in the film Ondanondu Kaladalli (Meaning: Once once upon once upon a moment) produced by Girish Karnad.The song was composed by Jnanpit awardee Chandrashekhara Kambara and music by Bhaskar Chandavarkar. As the sole song in the entire film, Ondanondu kaladaga with its folk-inspired lyrics was a smash and earned the attention of Kavita Krishnamurti. She continued to sing numerous Kannada songs.
The 1990s thrust Kavita into being known as one of the leading female playback singers. Her performance as a singer in the film 1942: A Love Story, composed by R.D. Burman won her much popular acclaim. With a string of hits from 1942: A Love Story, Yaraana, Agni Sakshi, Bhairavi, and Khamoshi, Kavita established herself as the leading female playback singer alongside Alka Yagnik. She went on to work with several music directors of Hindi films of the 1990s, such as Bappi Lahiri, Anand-Milind, A. R. Rahman, Rajesh Roshan, Raamlaxman, Ismail Darbar, Himesh Reshammiya, Aadesh Shrivastava, Nadeem-Shravan, Jatin Lalit, Viju Shah and Anu Malik. Her work with A. R. Rahman and Ismail Darbar remains some of the most critically acclaimed renditions of the last two decades. During her stint as a playback singer, she sang duets with the leading male singers of her times. Early in her career, she sang duets with Kishore Kumar, Mohammed Rafi, and Shailendra Singh. Her most prolific work was with the leading singers of the 1990s: Amit Kumar, Mohammad Aziz, Udit Narayan, Kumar Sanu, and Abhijeet Bhattacharya. She has also sung extensively with younger singers in the 2000s such as Sonu Nigam, Shaan, and Babul Supriyo. Her female duets mostly have been with Alka Yagnik, Anuradha Paudwal and Sadhana Sargam with a few duets also with Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhonsle. During the 90s, Kavita alongside Alka Yagnik and Poornima sang the most for leading ladies.
Kavita Krishnamurthy Subramaniam, popularly known as Kavita Krishnamurthy, is an Indian film playback singer who has sung songs in Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Marathi, English, Urdu, Tamil, Malayalam, Gujarati, Nepali, Bengali, Assamese, Konkani, Odiya and others. Trained in classical music, Kavita Krishnamurti has recorded more than 25,000 songs in 16 languages in a career span of 30 years. She is the recipient of four Filmfare Best Female Playback Singer Awards, including three consecutive awards in the period 1995–1997, and the Padmashri which she received in 2005. In 1999, she married violinist L. Subramaniam and residing in Bengaluru.
Kavita’s career as a playback singer begun in Kannada films. Her first film performance was featured in her debut in the Kannada film Ondanondu Kaladalli (1978) which had similar title. She has been singing a variety of hit tracks in Kannada since the time of her debut. Songs such as “Bareyada mounada Kavithe” (Sparsha), “Hoove Hoove” (H2O), “Endo Kanda kanasu” (Lankesh Patrike), “O malle o dumbi” (‘Naga Devate’), “Artha madkolo” (Shishya), “Kaveri Kaveri” (Raja Huli) and many other superhit songs helped her gain a household name in Karnataka.
Kavita Krishnamurti Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Indian playback singer |
| House | Living in own house. |
Kavita Krishnamurti is one of the richest Indian Playback Singer from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kavita Krishnamurti 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
In her time in St. Xavier College, Mumbai She was given the chance to record a song for the Bengali film Shriman Prithviraj in the year 1971, with singer Lata Mangeshkar, who was the co-singer under the guidance of musical composer as well as singer Hemant Kumar. While the young Sharada was aspired to work for the Indian Foreign Services, she relocated to Bombay at the age of 14 years old to test her hand as a singer for playback for Bollywood’s Hindi movie industry.
She is alumnus of St. Xavier’s College, Bombay from where she completed her BA in Honors Economics. She was very involved with The St. Xavier’s Music Group during her time at college. At the annual college celebration (Malhar) she had the pleasure of meeting Ranu Mukherjee who was the child of the late Hemant Kumar. Ranu took on the task of reconnecting Kavita with her dad. He was impressed with her music background and started using her as a singer in his live shows. In one of his performances the performer Manna Dey spotted her and engaged her to sing in commercial songs. Through the connections of her aunt she was introduced to Jaya Chakravarthy, the mother of actress Hema Malini. She later decided to introduce Kavita to music director Laxmikant (one member of composers in the pair Laxmikant-Pyarelal) in late 1976.
In 1980, she sang the song, “Kaahe Ko Byaahi” in the film Maang Bharo Sajana (1980) – Kaahe Ko Byaahi, which featured her singing in her own voice. Unfortunately, the song was dropped from the final cut of the film. In 1985, her career took off with her first major hit, “Tumse Milkar Na Jaane Kyon” from the Hindi film Pyaar Jhukta Nahin (1985) – Tumse milkar.Na Jaane kyun Post the success of the song, it opened up opportunities beyond the Laxmikant–Pyarelal camp. However, “Hawa Hawaii” and “Karte Hain Hum Pyaar Mr. India Se”, two popular songs from the equally popular movie Mr. India (1986) – Karte Hain Hum pyaar Mr. India se, proved to be a turning point in her career. (The songs were composed by music composers Laxmikant-Pyarelal, the latter being a duet with Kishore Kumar and lip-synced on screen by actress Sridevi.) Her collaboration with Laxmikant-Pyarelal produced several hits.
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Kavita Subramaniam has been making appearances in various music reality shows as a guest judge owing to her popularity as a playback singer. She recently was a judge for Bharat Ki Shaan: Singing Star (Season 1), which aired on DD National at prime time. She also appeared in Vijay TV Airtel Super Singer and Colors Bangla Great Music Gurukul. She has also sung for serials like Alif Laila {1980} DD National, Mahabharat, Ramayan (1986), Shri Krishna, and Ramayan (2008), Kavita Krishnamurthy At Know In 2017 Spacial Juries and Judge UAE Singers of Student, The Give as Prices 5,000 Dinar In Winner. She also appeared in Rising Star Season 2 which was broadcast on Colors TV in 4 March 2018 as a guest.
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Kavita Ranked on the list of most popular Indian playback singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Kavita Krishnamurti celebrates birthday on January 25 of every year.