M. S. Rajeswari
M. S. Rajeswari
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About M. S. Rajeswari
M. S. Rajeswari, Tamil: எம். எஸ். ராஜேஸ்வரி, (1932 - 2018) was an Indian playback singer who has recorded over 500 songs in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada language films. She was born on 24 February 1932 to Madurai Satagopan and T. V. Rajasundari who herself was a singer and stage artist. Rajeswari was introduced to film singing by family friend B. R. Panthulu. She started her career in AVM Studios where she was one of the resident playback singers along with T. S. Bagavathi. Her very first song was Maiyal Migavum Meerudhe in the film Vijayalakshmi produced by Pragathi Pictures, the forerunner to AVM Studios. During the 1940s she sang for almost all the films produced by AVM. Then she continued on independently. In later years, she was a popular voice for child artists. She rendered songs which consist of solos and duets in all of the AVM Studios early productions Nam Iruvar, Rama Rajyam, Vedhala Ulagam, Vazhkai, Jeevitham, Or Iravu, Parasakthi, Gunasagari, Penn and Chella Pillai. She sang more often in the 1940s and 1950s, while during the 1960s till 1990s, she was only sought in songs that voice needed for small children. Films such as Kaveriyin Kanavan, Kaithi Kannayiram and Engal Selvi are the earlier ones where she recorded her voice for child artists. Since 1964 till the 1990s she was only sought for playback for child artists. She was the first playback singer for Kamal Haasan for the song Ammaavum Neeye Appaavum Neeye in Kalathur Kannamma when she was offered by AVM Studios after a break. Rajeswari had recorded many songs for Baby Shamili. Her voice suits the best when Shamili was a child artist in Dhurga, Lakshmi Dhurga, Bhairavi, Sendhoora Devi, Sindhoora Devi, Thai Poosam, Sivasangkari, Dheiva Kuzhandhai and Sivarathiri. She started her career in AVM Studios under R. Sudharsanam’s music. Later, many of her songs are under K. V. Mahadevan's music direction all the while. Way back later in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Shankar-Ganesh engaged her. She also sang under G. Ramanathan, Naushad, Viswanathan-Ramamoorthy, C. Ramchandra, R. Govardhanam, M. S. Gnanamani, M. S. Viswanathan, T. K. Ramamoorthy, Robin Chatterjee, S. V. Venkatraman, M. Ranga Rao, Vedha, G. Devarajan, Pukazhenthi, Master Venu, Chandrabose and Ilaiyaraaja. Playback singers she sang with She sang immemorable duets mostly with T. M. Soundararajan. Others include Seerkazhi Govindarajan, A. M. Rajah, Thiruchi Loganathan, V. J. Varma, K. Devanarayanan, V. N. Sundharam, A. L. Raghavan, S. C. Krishnan, K. J. Yesudas & S. P. Balasubramanyam. She also sang duets with female singers with most notably with T. S. Bagavathi. Others are L. R. Eswari, Radha Jayalakshmi, R. Balasaraswathi Devi, A. G. Rathnamala, P. Suseela, A. P. Komala, K. Jamuna Rani, S. Janaki, K. S. Chithra, Swarnalatha, U. R. Chandra, L. R. Anjali, N. L. Ganasaraswathi, K. Rani & Kalyani. The singing actors she sang with were K. R. Ramaswamy & T. R. Ramachandran. She died on 25 April 2018.
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