Kalpana_Raghavendar

Kalpana Raghavendar

Kalpana Raghavendar

Musical artist

Kalpana Raghavendar (born 8 May 1980) is an Indian playback singer, winner of Idea Star Singer Malayalam and participant in Bigg Boss Telugu Season 1, songwriter and actor. She started her career as a playback singer at the age of five and, by 2013, had recorded 1,500 tracks and performed in 3,000 shows in India and abroad.[1]

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In 2010, she was the winner of the south Indian singing show Star Singer season 5, broadcast by the Malayalam TV channel Asianet.[2] She is a judge of Super Singer Junior.

Early life and background

Raghavendar was born into a musical family. Her father, T. S. Raghavendra, was a renowned playback singer, actor and composer, and her mother, Sulochana, is also a singer.[1] She has a younger sister, Shekinah Shawn (born Prasanna Raghavendar) who is an opera singer.[3] Raghavendar took her Carnatic music lessons under Madurai T. Srinivasan.[4] She has a Master of Computer Applications degree and is[when?] pursuing a Master of Philosophy.[5]

Career

Raghavendar began her musical career at the age of five. She acted in the film Punnagai Mannan aged six.[6] Her first vocals were for a family song with P. Susheela, Mano, M. M. Srilekha and her younger sister Prasanna, composed by the music director Saluri Vasurao.[7] As an adult, she started her career as a full-fledged playback singer in 1999 with the song "Mangalagouriki" from the Telugu film Manoharam under the music director Mani Sharma. She has worked with many legendary composers and singers like M. S. Viswanathan, Ilaiyaraaja, A. R. Rahman, K. V. Mahadevan, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and K. S. Chithra. She is more familiar to the public as a stage performer rather than a playback singer, having performed nearly 3,000 stage shows worldwide.[1][8] In 2013, she was the lead performer in a tribute concert for her guru, Madurai T. Srinivasan.[4]

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Discography

List of songs recorded by Kalpana Raghavendar

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Awards

References

  1. [1]
    "Filmy-carnatic renditions". New Indian Express. 4 February 2013. Archived from the original on 21 January 2014.
  2. [2]
    "Kalpana Raghavendra Wins Idea Star Singer Season 5". International Business Times. 25 September 2011.
    - "Kalpana Raghavendar Winner Of Idea Star Singer Season 5". Kerala TV. Archived from the original on 29 July 2017. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
  3. [3]
    Gautam, Savitha (24 April 2012). "Shekinah shawn opera". The Hindu.
  4. [4]
    Malathi Rangarajan (10 January 2013). "Congenially classical". The Hindu.
  5. [5]
    "About Kalpana". Vasundhara magazine. 21 September 2014.
  6. [6]
    "என் பாடல்கள் அளவுக்கு முகம் தமிழ் ரசிகர்களுக்குப் பரிச்சயமானதில்லை: கல்பனா ராகவேந்தர்!" [My face is not familiar to Tamil fans as my songs are: Kalpana Raghavendar!]. Dinamani (in Tamil). 16 March 2018. Archived from the original on 25 November 2018. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
  7. [7]
    "Kalpna interview - about her". ABN Andhra Jyothi. 21 October 2015. Archived from the original on 10 March 2016. Retrieved 5 January 2016 – via YouTube.
  8. [8]
    "Raining Music for a Cause". New Indian Express. 7 July 2015.
    - "Melodies United by Tune, Divided by Language". New Indian Express. 23 May 2015.
    - "Rahman and Team Recreate Magic". New Indian Express. 4 October 2014.
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