And K S Chitra is one woman who has captivated the minds of numerous music lovers all over South India with her beautiful renderings in over 3 or 4 languages. She is known as the "Multilingual Melody Queen" !! Chitra is one of the leading playback singers ever to have lent voice to the matinee idols of Tamil cinema. For the twelfth time in her career, she has won the Kerala Government's award for the best female playback singer.
She is also the proud recipient of honors like "Kalaimammani" from the Tamil Nadu Government, the Gama Indian Music Award (Malaysia) and the Screen Videocon award for Hindi films. But Chitra herself is endearingly modest about her achievements. For her every award is a "recognition, but one that I never willingly go after or sit in anticipation of"
Chitra's guru is her father, the late Krishnan Nair who introduced her to the world of classical music. She feels the rigorous discipline of Classical music helps her in her career and her singing. "There is nothing like being strong in the fundamentals of structured music; it helps you to grasp tunes more easily and to improvise, if you feel like it" Chitra has sung nearly 12,000 songs, on and off the stage or behind the scenes !!.
But still her zeal for learning and improving her pitch and tone burn bright while she handles the microphone. These are qualities that have stood her in good stead for nearly over a couple of decades in Tamil filmdom.
Chitra is the proud owner of her own recording studio, "Audiotracs" She sings in her golden voice while her husband, Vijayan takes care of the administration.
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