Chithra is the first Indian woman who was honored by the House of Commons, British Parliament, United Kingdom in 1997 and is the only singer from India who was honored by the Government of China at the Qinghai International Music and Water Festival in 2009. She was awarded India's third highest civilian honor Padma Bhushan in 2021 and Padma Shri in 2005 for her valuable contributions towards the Indian musical fraternity. She has won film awards from all the four south Indian states. Ĭhithra is a recipient of six National Film Awards, eight Filmfare Awards South and 36 different state film awards. She is regarded as a cultural icon of Kerala and is fondly called as the Melody Queen and Nightingale of South India.

Keeravani and with the playback singers KJ Yesudas and SP Balasubramaniyam over the years. She is also known for her extensive history of collaboration in the songs with Music Composers A.R. In a career spanning over four decades, she has recorded over 25,000 (Twenty five thousand) songs in various Indian languages including Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, Odia, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati, Tulu, Rajasthani, Urdu, Sanskrit, and Badaga as well as foreign languages such as Malay, Latin, Arabic, Sinhalese, English and French. Chithra or Chithra, is an Indian playback singer and Carnatic musician.

Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra (born 27 July 1963), credited as K.

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