Singer kalyani menon biography of albert

Indian playback singer (–)

Musical artist

Kalyani Menon (23 June – 2 August ) was an Indian playback singer who worked in the Indian film industry. After beginning her career in the s as a classical singer, Kalyani established a parallel career as a singer in the film industry and worked extensively with A.

R. Rahman during the late s and early s. She was awarded the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Award in and the Kalaimamani Award in ^[1][2]

Career

Kalyani Menon learned classical music from M.

R. Sivaraman Nair and made a mark as a classical vocalist, before gradually branching out into singing for films. An early Malayalam film song which garnered her acclaim was "Kanneerin Mazhayathum" for composer M. S. Baburaj in Ramu Kariat’s Dweepu ().^[3] She began working in Madras during , through Dhananjayan’s Malayalam dance drama Magdalana Mariyam that was choreographed as part of the Vallathol Centenary celebrations.

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