The singer, born in 1945 as Kalaivani in Vellore, began her singing career in Bollywood with the film Guddi (1971), under the composition of Vasant Desai. In Tamil, she was introduced by MS Viswanathan in the film 1973 film, Sollathaan Ninaikkiren. The prolific singer sang across 18 different Indian languages including Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil and Hindi and rendered over 10,000 songs across her fifty-year-long career.
The ace singer got her first National Award for Apoorva Raagangal (1975), just four years after her debut, and went on to add two more for Sankarabharanam and Swathi Kiranam in 1980 and 1991 respectively. Merely days ago, she had been announced as the winner of the Padma Bhushan and been celebrated for it.
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