S-Janaki

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S. Janaki born April 23, into a Telugu family in Pallapatla, Repalle village, Guntur District of Andhra Pradesh. Janaki is a legendary female playback singer. She has sung in many Indian languages including Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi. Janaki is also a lyricist and a composer. She along with S P Balasubramanyam is the most popular singing combination in south India.

Janaki started singing at 19. She later moved to Chennai to joined AVM Studios as a singer. She started her career in movies by singing songs composed by T. Chalapati Rao in the Tamil movie Vidhiyin Vilayattu in 1957.

She also wrote many songs for Tamil and Telugu movies. She has sung more than 30000 songs in almost all languages in South India as well as in Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada, Sinhalese, Bengali, Oriya, English, Sanskrit, Konkani, Tulu, Saurashtra, Baduga, Japanese and German.

Her contemporaries are Dr.Rajkumar,P. Susheela, Vani Jayaram, K J Yesudas, L R Eeswari, P. Jayachandran, P. Leela, K. S. Chithra, P B Srinivas and S P Balasubramanyam. She is the inspiration for many upcoming female playback singers.


Awards

In 1956, second prize in competitions held by AIR (All India Radio) from the former Indian President Dr. Rajendra Prasad at the .
In 1986, Kalai Mamani by Government of Tamil Nadu
In 1987, Sur singar award
In 2002 , Cinema 'Achiever Award' by the government of Kerala
In 2005, Special Jury Swaralaya Yesudas Award for outstanding performance in music.
National Film Awards four times for the best Playback singer by Government of India
State Film awards fourteen times for the best Playback singer by Government of Kerala
State Film awards seven times for the best Playback singer by Government of Tamil Nadu
State Film awards ten times for the best Playback singer by Government of Andra Pradesh
State Film awards four times for the best Playback singer by Government of Karnataka
2009, Honorary doctarate by Mysore university for her tremendous contribution to Kannada Film songs background singing.