S. Janaki

S. Janaki - Indian playback singer Sistla Janaki

Person from India

Genres: filmi

About S. Janaki

Sistla Janaki (born 23 April 1938) is an Indian playback singer and occasional music composer. She is widely referred to as Janaki Amma and Nightingale of South India. She is one of the greatest playback singers in the history of Indian music. She has recorded over 48000 songs in films, albums, TV and Radio which includes solos, duets, chorus and title tracks in 20 Indian languages, including Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Sanskrit, Odia, Tulu, Urdu, Punjabi, Badaga, Bengali, Konkani, as well as in foreign languages such as English, Japanese, German and Sinhala. The language in which she sang the most songs in her career was Kannada, followed by Malayalam. She is widely acclaimed as the Queen of expression & modulation in any Language with Nativity. S. Janaki's contribution to the Indian music industry in a career spanning six decades gained her honorific titles such as the "Queen of Melody", "Nightingale of India", and "Expression Queen of Indian music"..She began her singing career with the Tamil film Vidhiyin Vilayattu (1957) at the age of 19 and recorded songs in six different languages in the same year. Her career has spanned over six decades until 2016, when she announced self-retirement from singing for films and stage appearances. However, upon insistence from the film fraternity, she made a comeback by singing a song for the Tamil film Pannaadi in 2018. She has won 4 National Film Awards and 33 different State Film Awards. She is a recipient of an honorary doctorate from the University of Mysore, the Kalaimamani award from the Tamil Nadu State Government and the Rajyotsava Prashasti award from the Government of Karnataka. In 2013, she refused to accept the Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award of the Government of India, and said that she deserves the Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award of the Government of India for her contributions to music. She pointed out that it was "too little, too late" and that South Indian artists were not given their due recognition.

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