Who is kavita krishnamurthy

Bhattacharya who taught her Rabindra Sangeet. As she completed her training, she began her formal training in Hindustani classical music under the aegis of Sri. Balram Puri. At the age of eight, she won her first gold medal at a music competition. Subsequently, she won gold medals as she participated in the Inter-Ministry Classical Competition in New Delhi in the mid s. At the young age of nine, she got an opportunity to record a Tagore song in Bengali with the legendary Lata Mangeshkar under the auspices of the music composer Hemant Kumar.

Although the young Kavita was aspiring to be working with the Indian Foreign Services, Kavita moved to Bombay when she was 14 to try her luck as a playback singer in the Hindi film industry.

After she completed her school education, she is an alumnus of the St. Xaviers' College, Bombay from where she acquired her Ph. She was also very active in the St. Xaviers' Music Group in her college days. During the annual college festival Malhar , she bumped into Ranu Mukherjee, the daughter of Hemant Kumar. Ranu took the initiative of reintroducing Kavita to her father. He was highly impressed by her skills, so he began her talent as a singer during his live performances. In one such performance, Manna Dey spotted her talent and employed her to sing advertisement jingles.

Through her aunt's strong contacts, she met Mrs. Jaya Chakravarthy, the mother of actress Hema Malini who later took the initiative of introducing to Kavita to the music director Laxmikant of the Laxmikant-Pyarelal fame in late.

Laxmikant gave her an option to work as a dubbing artiste or a career in playback singing later. Kavita chose the former and impressed Laxmikant with her strong grounding in Indian classical music and her soulful timbre. Initially, she used to record songs and cut demos of songs intended for singers like Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle. In her struggle phase, Laxmikant-Pyarelal backed her so strongly that she was labelled as a "LP-campwalli" which gave many music directors an excuse to avoid working with her.

Unfortunately, the song was dropped from the final cut. Post the success of the song, it opened up various opportunities beyond the Laxmikant-Pyarelal camp. India Se", two popular songs from the highly popular movie Mr. India proved a turning point for her. The song was composed by music directors Laxmikant-Pyarelal and lip-synced on screen by actress Sridevi.

The collaboration of Kavita and Laxmikant-Pyarelal produced many hits. Later, as she established herself and received patronage of composers such as R. Burman and Ismail Darbar. In , Kavita's performance in the songs from music director R. Burman's last successful venture, A Love Story won her a lot of popular acclaim.

Personal life Kavitha Krishnamurthy married Dr. Hema said: "I am happy to be on Indian Idol again. I am happy to talk to all of you and that too, I will be talking about Kavita Krishnamurthy. I only know her as 'Paapa' - I know her from the time she was only a one or two-year-old child in Delhi. Hema recounted how their 'ambitious' mothers wanted them to become artists and were the ones who played a major role in them achieving glory. I entered the Hindi film world. I became a heroine too. A post shared by Sony Entertainment Television sonytvofficial.

We found out that as a child artist Kavita had been giving singing performances," she added. Hema mentioned how she played a role in giving Kavita a break in the Hindi film industry. The film's music was by Laxmikant Pyarelal and, in that film, as a duplicate, they included a song by Kavita. The song's picturisation had been done on me with Kavita's vocals.

I enjoyed that and I said 'my God, superb she is'. I feel very happy that in Kavita's journey, I and my mother have made a small contribution. I am so happy for you, Kavita or I should call you 'Paapa'. Nice to see that you are on Indian Idol Create a list ».

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