- Vani Jayaram
Infobox musical artist
Name = Vani Jayaram
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Genre = playback singing
Occupation = Singer
Years_active = 1971-1992Vani Jayaram is one of the major female
playback singers inIndia . She has sung songs in Tamil, Telugu,Malayalam ,Marathi ,Hindi andKannada . She has thrice won theNational Film Awards in play back singing.Fact|date=February 2007Vani Jayaram, one of the greatest singers of our times, claims to have has the ability to sing in a multitude of languages. She has rendered classical songs in Carnatic and Hindustani styles, ghazals, light and pop songs and some very popular folk songs
Early life
She was born in
Vellore inTamil Nadu . vani belongs to a family of musicians. Her mother is the disciple of Ranga Ramunaja Iyengar-a great veena artiste. Kadaloor Sreenivasa Iyengar, who taught vani’s sister music, was fascinated by her observation and grasping power. He taught her a few Deekshidar kritis when she was hardly five. [ [http://kerala4u.in/266/personalities/vani-jayaramplay-back-singer vani jayaram-play back singer | kerala4u.in ] ] The fifth daughter in a family of six daughters and three sons, Vani always secretly yearned for a career in film playback singing. Considered to be a child prodigy, Vani Jairam claims to have recognized the different ragas of Indian classical music before the age of five. Her voice was first heard onAll India Radio , Madras, at the age of eight.Vani Jairam studied Carnatic music under the tutelage of Kadalur Srinivasa Iyengar, T.R. Balasubramanian and R.S. Mani. Her Hindustani light-classical music guru was Ustad Abdul Rahman Khan.
Career
In 1970, she realized her childhood ambition of becoming a film playback singer when the veteran hindi film music director,
Vasant Desai chose her voice for the hindi feature filmGuddi . She recorded three songs for that film. Bol Re Papi Hara, her song from the film, based on the hindustani ragaMiyan Malhar , instantly made her an household name in the different corners of India. The song was awarded Tansen Samman (for best classical-based song in a hindi film,) The Lions International Best Promising Singer, The All India Cinegoers Association, and the All India Film-goers Association awards for the Best Playback Singer in 1971. Vani recorded her first tamil song for the tamil film Thaiyum Seiyum, for S.M.Subbaiah Naidu, in the year 1973.Besides Hindi and Tamil, Vani Jairam has numerous recordings in other languages of India. These include, Gujarati, Marathi, Marwari, Hariyanvi, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Oriya, Bengali and Tulu. For her work in these languages she has been awarded many prestigious awards, among which are: Best Female Playback Singer for states of Gujarat (1975), Tamil Nadu (1980) and Orissa (1984).
Vani Jairam was chosen for the Indian President's National Award for Best Female Playback Singer of 1975, for her work in M.S. Viswanathan's Aboorva Ragangal (Tamil). Her songs in the Pt. Ravi Shankar scored film Meera brought her the Film World (1979) Cine Herald (1979) and Filmfare (1980) awards for Best Playback Singer in Hindi.
Shankarabharanam (Telugu), the film scored byK.V. Mahadevan , gave Vani Jairam her second National Award as Best Playback Singer of 1980. Once again, she was awarded her third National Award for Best Playback Singer of 1991 for K.V. Mahadevan'sSwathi Kiranam . She is also the youngest artiste to be awarded the Sangeet Peet Samman.Discography
Movies
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Guddi
*Shankarabaranam
*Aboorva Ragangal
*Swathi Kiranam Personal life
After her marriage to Jairam she settled in Bombay, a city where she also saw her dream come true.
External links
* [http://www.vanijairam.com/ Vani Jairam Website]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0415854/ IMDb entry]
References
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