Kavita Krishnamurthy was born on 25 January 1958 in New Delhi. She is a playback singer who has recorded songs in Hindi and many other Indian languages, and she was awarded the Padma Shri in 2005. She is married to the violinist L. Subramaniam; they married on 11 November 1999.
Her early work included a Bengali song for the composer Hemant Kumar in 1973 and her first recorded film song for Kadambari (1976), composed by Vilayat Khan. Her first major Hindi hit was “Tumse Milkar Na Jaane Kyon” from Pyaar Jhukta Nahin (1985), and Mr. India (1987), in which she sang “Hawa Hawai”, turned her into a star.
She won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer in 1995 for “Pyar Hua Chupke Se” from R. D. Burman’s 1942: A Love Story, in 1996 for “Mera Piya Ghar Aaya” from Yaraana, and in 1997 for “Aaj Main Upar” from Khamoshi. She shared a fourth Filmfare Award with Shreya Ghoshal in 2003 for “Dola Re Dola” from Devdas (2002).
Besides Hindi, she has sung in Bengali, Marathi, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam, and she has performed classical and devotional music alongside her film work.
Her longevity across four decades is the main reason she is regarded as a senior figure of Hindi film music.
Featured image: Kavita Krishnamurthy performing on stage (cropped). Photo by KannanShanmugam,Shanmugam studio,Kollam,Kerala,India, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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