Kavita Krishnamurthy
a.k.a. : Kavaita Krishnamurthy, Kavita Krish...

Sharada Krishnamurthy, credited as Kavita Krishnamurthy (married name: Kavita Subramaniam) made her mark in the Indian (film) playback industry. She is best known as a Bollywood playback singer. She has lent her voice to several Indian actresses and has also sung some very popular Hindi film songs.

The music director and singer Manna Dey spotted her talent and employed her to sing ad jingles. Her aunt introduced her to Mrs. Jaya Chakravarthy, the late. mother of actress Hema Malini who later took the initiative of meeting Laxmikant (of the Laxmikant-Pyarelal) fame in late 1976.

Impressed by Kavitha s skills, Laxmikant offered her work as a dubbing artiste cutting demos of songs intended for playback singers like Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle. In the 1980s Kaahe Ko Byaahi was the first song that was featured in a film using her own voice. In 1985, she landed her with her first major hit, Tumse Milkar Na Jaane Kyon . In her struggle phase, Laxmikant-Pyarelal backed her so strongly that she ...

Sharada Krishnamurthy, credited as Kavita Krishnamurthy (married name: Kavita Subramaniam) made her mark in the Indian (film) playback industry. She is best known as a Bollywood playback singer. She has lent her voice to several Indian actresses and has also sung some very popular Hindi film songs.

The music director and singer Manna Dey spotted her talent and employed her to sing ad jingles. Her aunt introduced her to Mrs. Jaya Chakravarthy, the late. mother of actress Hema Malini who later took the initiative of meeting Laxmikant (of the Laxmikant-Pyarelal) fame in late 1976.

Impressed by Kavitha s skills, Laxmikant offered her work as a dubbing artiste cutting demos of songs intended for playback singers like Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle. In the 1980s Kaahe Ko Byaahi was the first song that was featured in a film using her own voice. In 1985, she landed her with her first major hit, Tumse Milkar Na Jaane Kyon . In her struggle phase, Laxmikant-Pyarelal backed her so strongly that she was labelled as someone from the Lakshmikant-Pyarelal camp. After the success of Tumse Milkar Na Jaane Kyon , it opened up opportunities for her outside the Laxmikant-Pyarelal camp, with which she had faithfully worked up to that point.

In 1994, when R D Burman staged a mind-blowing comeback with 1942: A Love Story, he selected Kavitha to sing for him. The music went on to be a superhit, unfortunately, Panchamda passed away. She went on to become one of the most popular female playback singers after Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle. During the 1990s, she worked with some of the best music directors of India including Anu Malik, Jatin-Lalit, Nadeem-Shravan, Ismail Darbar, A R Rahman.

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