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S. Janaki was born in Pallapatla, Repalle village, Guntur District of Andhra Pradesh. Janaki showed interest in music at a tender age and started singing at the age of three. She started learning music from a nadaswaram vidwan, Sree Paidiswamy. She moved to Chennai on the advice of her uncle Dr. Chandrashekar and joined as a singer in AVM Studio and started her career with Tamil films in 1957 in the film 'Vidhiyin Vilayattu' under the music director T. Chalapati Rao. Later, she got a chance in a Telugu film MLA.

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

K. J. YESUDAS

Kattassery Joseph Yesudas (or usually referred to as Dr. K. J. Yesudas or in the alternate, Jesudas, Malayalam: കാട്ടശ്ശേരി ജോസഫ് യേശുദാസ് ) (born January 10, 1940) is an eminent Indian classical musician and leading playback singer for film songs in many Indian languages.

Yesudas (the word literally means Follower of Jesus in Malayalam) was born in Fort Kochi, Kerala to Augustine Joseph and Elizabeth Joseph. His father, who was his first guru (teacher), was a well-known Malayalam classical musician and stage actor of his time. He joined the Music Academy in Thrippunithura and won a gold medal for music at a local competition in Fort Kochi at age seven. He later trained under the legendary Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar in Classical Music, and this training, abruptly cut short by the guru's demise in 1974, still stood him in good stead. His soul-stirring voice lends itself well to both Indian classical, devotional and popular songs. Some popular classical songs rendered by Yesudas are Vathapi Ganapathim, Krishna Nee Begane Baaro , 'Yentha Nedu Wo', 'Kshira Saagara'.

In playback singing Yesudas, a talent discovered by Salil Chowdhury and nurtured by Ravindra Jain, has sung more than 40,000 songs for many languages including Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Bengali, Malayalam, Gujarati, Oriya, Marathi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tulu, Russian, Arabic, Latin and English through his long career.

In 1965, he was invited by the Soviet Union government to perform at music concerts in various cities in the U.S.S.R. In 1970 he was nominated to head the Sangeetha Nataka Academy of Kerala, he was the youngest person ever to occupy the office. In 1971, Yesudas with his musical troupe travelled around Kerala to raise funds for the Indian Prime Minister's National Defense Fund during the Indo-Pakistani War. He also became Senate member in the International Parliament for Safety and Peace, an organization incorporated in the USA.

On November 14, 1999, Yesudas was presented an honorary award by UNESCO for "Outstanding Achievements in Music and Peace" at the "Music for Peace" event in Paris, a concert held to mark the dawn of the new millennium and whose attendees included artistes such as Lionel Richie, Ray Charles, Montserrat Caballé and Zubin Mehta. He also dons the role of cultural ambassador of India through his numerable performances abroad, promoting Indian Music.Yesudas has, till date, performed in almost all the major cities of the world.

He is the only one singer who has the title Asthana Gayakan (Official singer) of Kerala State.He was awarded the Padmashree (1973) and Padma Bhushan (2002) by the President of India

A. R. RAHMAN OSCAR AWARD

A R Rahman scored a double triumph at the Grammy Awards in LA, scooping two early honours for his music from Oscar-winning film ‘Slumdog Millionaire’. The composer won his first Grammy in the best compilation soundtrack for a motion picture category, before his Jai Ho won in the best motion picture song category moments later. ‘‘This is insane, God is great again,’’ Rahman said as he accepted his second award on Sunday night.

His rivals in soundtrack category included Steve Jordan for ‘Cadillac Records,’ Quentin Tarantino for ‘Inglourious Basterds’, and producers of ‘Twilight’ and ‘True Blood’. In best song category, Rahman beat Bruce Springsteen for his song ‘The Wrestler,’ from Oscar-nominated movie of the same name. Post his Grammy glory and Oscar success, A R Rahman has been a busy man. Jai Ho’s success has clearly opened up new vistas in the 36-year-old musicians career. His office is now regularly flooded with calls from producers and directors wanting to sign him up. ‘‘I am selective about the films I want to do,’’ said Rahman last week after Na Na, the track from his Hollywood film ‘Couple’s Retreat’, was shortlisted for the Oscars this year. ‘‘I have been approached for quite a few films but I am not talking about them yet.
Slumdog Millionaire worked because it is a song of hope,’’ he said.

Back home he is working on Mani Ratnam’s ‘Ravan’ starring Aishwarya
and Abhishek Bachchan and the big budget sci-fi film, ‘Enthiran’ starring Rajinikanth and Aishwarya.

He is also committed to Ashok Amritraj’s ‘Street Dancing’.
‘‘Other things are happening globally, but I am not at liberty to tell you the details as yet,’’ he said after winning the Padma Bhushan.

It has been a long journey from his humble origins as a 11-year-old schoolboy in Chennai, hopping from
one studio to another to do the bidding of composers who could find no one else to make the keyboard come alive like him.

Given a break in tinsel town by director Mani Ratnam in 1991 to score the music for ‘Roja’, young Rahman, went on to
become a composer whose appeal cut across linguistic barriers. ‘‘One of Rahman’s greatest achievements is that his
songs never shied of pushing the aural boundary,’’ says director K Balachander.

Awards now seem to have a way of chasing the young musician. These include four national awards, including one on his debut. Career highlights also include composing for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Bombay Dreams’ and scoring for the stage production of ‘Lord of the Rings’. He also composed the music for ‘Warriors of Heaven and Earth’, a Chinese film, while his songs in the Tamil film ‘Muthu’ took his compositions to Japan. His theme music for ‘Bombay’ was recommended as ‘One of the 100 albums to listen before you die’ by Time magazine.