
She commented that most of Tamil music directors are very organized and extremely hard-working and an entire Tamil industry sounded from her descriptions very demanding. Listen to her first Tamil song for Raja sir. Despite all the odds, listening to her singing, Raja sir called her the next day to sing this song.

With all the preparations, while singing for Raja sir, cut two key words in the lyrics due to lack of proper breath control.
THE SING RAJA SONG MOVIE
It was a story of her meeting first time with Raja sir, for auditioning of a remake of a Malayalam movie “ Noketha Doorathu Kannumnattu” (another Fazil hit Malayalam movie for which Chitra have sung all the songs). The following video song is Chithra’s very first song she sang for Illayaraja in Tamil.Ī little story she told in an interview behind this following film song. It was a big dream for Chithra as well to sing for Raja sir. She was suggested by many movie directors like Fazil, to music directors in other south India languages like Illayaraja in Tamil. Listen to her first song in Malayalam Pranaya Vasantham. In an illustrious career, she went onto sing for many famous music directors like Jerry Amaldev, Ravindran, Johnson, and Shyam and established herself in Malayalam Play back.

Her very introduction to Malayalam music industry followed with an instant success with all other music directors in line to make her sing their songs. The very first song she sang for the Malayalam movie industry was Pranaya vasantham with Dr. From her family, Chithra says It was her dad who supported her most, while her mother wanted her to stay in music education and was very scared about a girl from the family getting into a taboo stricken film world. MGR was a very popular music director who came from a very strong music family, when Chithra was forming her music. Malayalee audience instantly related to the local girl’s singing, who for an entire three decades accustomed to non-native speaking singers.

Chitra’s voice was melodious like the singing of a Skylark with seven colors of nature. Susheela and Vani Jayaram (all non-Malayalee). When she was introduced to the Malayalam playback, the field was ruled by legends like S. Radhakrishnan, who introduced her talent to the very Malayalam movie industry. It was her family friend and famous music director Late Mr. Listening to her experiences from many interviews, we think that her interactions she had with Illayaraja in Tamil music industry seem to be pivotal in strengthening her confidence while establishing her presence in South India’s other regional languages. She worked with almost every music directors in India’s music industry. She had seen all changes in the playback industry where orchestra was ready to play during a recording (live recording), to a modern click recording. Despite an illustrious career filled with achievements, she remained the humble personality, who lights up any place she is present. More than 20K songs and an innumerable number of awards that can fill pages, is the career graph of this singer.

Youngsters who aim for perfection look up to her to learn the techniques she displayed in her singing. Chithra who yearn for that perfection in every song she recorded. Be it expressions, feel, sangathies, pronunciation, delivery of a complete product, there is no other female vocalist in the industry other than K.S. It is a long time wish to write a blog in the honor of the living legend Play back singer K.S. Ever since we started the blog this is one of the closest to heart feature to write here.
