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I meant Kavita Krishnamurthy?

Here is a detailed article on Kavita Krishnamurthy-Subramaniam. The
source of the article is the following:

http://www.indianviolin.com/bground/kavita.htm

The article mentions about Kavita's classical concert with Pandit
Jasraj and Dr. L Subramaniam. Does anybody have further details about
this? I am also surprised to know of her Punjabi duet album with Ghulam
Ali.

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Kavita Krishnamurti Subramaniam

"Kavita, born to sing... Singing queen has crowd in a spell"
- The Hindu, India

"Kavita has the crowd on its feet. Kavita's collection of awards is
too long to remember and most of her songs are hits."
- The Deccan Chronicle, India

"The nightingale... Kavita Subramaniam is a household name to film
music buffs."
- Khaleej Times, Dubai

"Kavita Krishnamurti's golden voice has given life to many lyrics
and screen heroines."
- The Times of India

"She is one of India's most celebrated Hindi film singers...
Together, L. Subramaniam and Kavita Krishnamurti symbolize the best in
music - global and Indian, classical and contemporary, instrumental
and vocal..."
-The Tabloid, Dubai

These are a few selected quotations from press around the world about
the legendary Kavita Krishnamurti Subramaniam.

Undoubtedly one of the favourites of the critics and the masses,
Kavita's singing career reads like a fairy tale. Her exquisite and
mellifluous voice, wide range and, versatility to sing different styles
and types of songs has put her in a unique place amongst singers and
she has been quoted as a "melody queen" by leading critics and
connoisseurs alike.

Kavita is a very rare personality who has served as a bridge from the
older film singers like Manna Dey, Kishore Kumar, right up to the
present day singers like Udit Narayan, Sonu Nigam and Shaan. Her
fantastic range and interpretation has led to collaborations with
diverse music directors like Naushad, Khayyam, OP Nayyar,
Lakshmikant-Pyarelal, R.D. Burman, Bappi Lahiri, A.R. Rahman, Anu
Malik, Nadeem Shravan, Jatin Lalit, Ismail Durbar, , Sanjeev-Darshan
and Shankar-Ehsan-Loy to name a few. Kavita's collaborations have
been with artists over three generations.

She has lent her voice to heroines from Nutan, Helen, Shabana, Sridevi,
Madhuri, Manisha, Kajol, to Karishma, Aishwarya ,Kareena and Rani
Mukherjee.

Born in Delhi, she began her vocal training under Sri Balram Puri, (in
the Hindustani style of music) at a very young age. Her incredible
talent was evident by age eight when she won her first gold medal at a
Music Competition. She also won gold medals both years she participated
in the Inter-Ministry Classical Competition in the mid 60s in New
Delhi.

Kavita enrolled at St. Xavier's College, Bombay where she obtained an
Honours Degree in Economics. While in college, she started singing
professionally on stage with the great music director and singer Hemant
Kumar, Mukesh and Manna Dey.

She began her recording career in 1971. Her first recording for a
Bengali film song was a duet with Lata Mangeshkar. "Maang Bharo
Sajna" was her first Hindi film under Sri Laxmikant Pyarelal followed
by "Pyar Jhukta Nahin". Since then, she has sung for many more
films like Mr. India, Karma, Saudagar, Khuda Gawah, Chaalbaaz, 1942 -
A Love Story, Yaarana, Mohara, Bombay, Saaz, Khamoshi, Pardesh,
Bhairavi, Agnisakshi, Prem Agan, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Bade Miyan Chhote
Miyan, Wajood, Hum Dil de Chuke Sanam, Taal, Hum Saath Saath Hain,
Vaastav, Khoobsurat, Gaja Gamini, Pukar, Dil Chahta Hai, Devdas, Dil
Vil Pyar Vyar, Jeena Sirf Tere Liye, The Rising, etc. Many of her songs
have gone platinum.

Kavita's exemplary voice has taken her all around the world,
including to the US, UK, Europe, Africa, Australia, Far East, Middle
East, South America. She has performed in some of the most prestigious
venues of the world including the Royal Albert Hall, London, The
Kennedy Centre, Washington D.C., Madison Square Gardens, The Lincoln
Centre, New York, the Zhongshan Music Hall, Beijing and The Esplanade,
Singapore Putra Jaya World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur, among others.
Having performed in every inhabited continent, there is very little
left of the world for Kavita to conquer with her voice.

Kavita has performed in every nook and corner of India from Punjab to
Kanyakumari and Bengal to Gujarat and the Andaman Islands. She has
performed in the largest concert halls and stadiums as well as in
remote places for the common man. Her voice has reached millions of
people touching their hearts as she has sung in almost all the Indian
languages including Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Bengali, Oriya,
Assamese, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bhojpuri, Jharkhandi,
Rajasthani and Konkani. She has also sung for several Nepalese and
Bangladeshi films. Kavita has also sung in English and recorded with
the famous Hollywood star Steven Seagal.

Although primarily a playback singer, Kavita has not allowed herself to
be limited. She has sung with orchestras as a soloist, she has
collaborated with Western artists from the Jazz, Popular and Classical
fields. She has sung ghazals and devotionals. She has even sung
Indi-Pop. Her classical jugalbandhi concert with Pandit Jasraj and Dr.
L. Subramaniam has been released both audio and DVD by Music Today.

Her many non-film albums include Koi Akela Kahan, Meera Ka Ram,
Mahalakshmi Stotra, Pop Time, Sai Ka Vardaan, Shagufthagi, Dil Ki Awaaz
and Devotional Melodies. She also sang for "Ramayana", an Indo-
Japanese ventures and several popular television serials in different
languages.

Her recent releases include the album Athens (Music Today), which
features the Olympic Torch Theme Song 'Lau Se Lau Jalti Hai',
written by Sri Gulzar and composed by Dr. L. Subramaniam was performed
when the Olympic flame was brought to India for the first time. She has
recorded for the ballet 'Asmita' - a ballet collaboration with
Dr. L. Subramaniam and danseuse Sonal Mansingh. Her most recent release
is a duet album "Mahiya" in Punjabi with the foremost Pakistani
ghazal singer Ghulam Ali.

Kavita's undaunted efforts to excel in the field of singing have
brought her several accolades, and a large fan following globally.
Prestigious awards include three consecutive Film Fare awards - a
feat rarely achieved, in 1995 for the film "1942 - A Love Story",
in 1996 for the film "Yaarana" and in 1997 for "Khamoshi". The
1997 Screen Award for "Khamoshi" and the 1998 Sansui Viewers Choice
Award were won by her. She also won the 1999 Screen Videocon Award for
"Hum Dil de Chuke Sanam" and 1999 Lux Zee Cine Award for "Hum Dil
de Chuke Sanam". She is the recipient of the Priyadarshini Award, the
Lion's Club Awards - Kala Sangam, the Lion's Award and the Kishore
Kumar Critics' Award.

Kavita Krishnamurti Subramaniam receiving the prestigious Lata
Mangeshkar award from Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Shivraj Singh
Chouhan for the year 2006.

She won the "Best Singer of the Millenium" award at the Stardust
Millennium 2000 Awards. She was twice the recipient of the Bollywood
Award, once in 2000 and 2002, held in New York. She is the recipient of
the Lux Zee Cine Award for the year 2003 for one of her songs from the
movie Devdas. She has also won the IFFI Award for the best singer. She
won the Gujarat state award for the best Gujarati film song.

Following her wedding to Dr L Subramaniam, Kavita has explored and
expanded her artistic range to areas which have never been explored by
singers before. She was the main featured soloist in the "Global
Fusion" album released by Warner Bros., featuring musicians from all
the five continents.

Kavita sang as a soloist with the Beijing Symphony Orchestra in a
historical concert where both the Indian President, H.E. K.R. Narayanan
and Chinese President H.E. Jiang Zemin were present along with other
dignitaries.

To commemorate 100 years of the Nobel Peace Prize, an album was
released bringing together the best musicians and excerpts from
speeches of Nobel laureates. For this project featuring artists from
all around the world, Kavita and Dr. Subramaniam were chosen to
represent the Asian continent. The composition, Transcendental Peace
features Dr. Subramaniam on the violin, Mrs. Subramaniam singing and
the words of Mother Teresa and Nelson Mandela. This historical compact
disc also features the music of Kris Kristofferson, Sinead O'Conner
and the words of Martin Luther King Jr., HH The Dalai Lama, Kofi Annan,
Yitzhak Rabin and Yaseer Arafat among others.

Bibliotheca Alexandria, the first library in the world existed in the
third century before our era. However, it was destroyed but now after
1600 years, the Bibliotheca Alexandria lives once again. Kavita
performed at the inaugural concert which was attended by President and
Mrs. Mubarak of Egypt, President and Mrs. Chirac of France, Queen Noor
of Jordan, the Queen of Spain and Queen Sophie of Belgium among other
Heads of States, Dignitaries and Nobel Laureates.

Kavita was asked to perform during Prince Charles' recent visit to
India at the Balayogi Auditorium (Parliament building) in New Delhi.

Her recent world tour includes appearances in Lincoln Centre, New York
(along with George Duke and Stanley Clarke), Putra Jaya World Trade
Centre, Kuala Lumpur, The Octagon Theatre, Perth and Esplanade,
Singapore.

Kavita also performed for H.E. Sri Abdul Kalam, the President of India
at the Mughal Gardens, Rashtrapati Bhawan on November 26th, 2004.

Kavita Krishnamurti Subramaniam is one artist who has managed to prove
herself in every musical field which she has chosen to enter, and has
enthralled and dazzled audiences from around the world with her stage
performances, recordings and playback singing for the past thirty
years... singing more than 15,000 songs. She is a true representative
of national integration.

Courtsey RMIM

[shazaad]

I meant Kavita Krishnamurthy?

Here is a detailed article on Kavita Krishnamurthy-Subramaniam. The
source of the article is the following:

http://www.indianviolin.com/bground/kavita.htm

The article mentions about Kavita's classical concert with Pandit
Jasraj and Dr. L Subramaniam. Does anybody have further details about
this? I am also surprised to know of her Punjabi duet album with Ghulam
Ali.

================================================

Kavita Krishnamurti Subramaniam

"Kavita, born to sing... Singing queen has crowd in a spell"
- The Hindu, India
i love kavita she sang alot of songs with my favorite singer mohd aziz, listen to papa kahte hain there is a song by kavita pehle pyar ka it is spellbounding, there is alot people in guyana that love kavita. take care
"Kavita has the crowd on its feet. Kavita's collection of awards is
too long to remember and most of her songs are hits."
- The Deccan Chronicle, India

"The nightingale... Kavita Subramaniam is a household name to film
music buffs."
- Khaleej Times, Dubai

"Kavita Krishnamurti's golden voice has given life to many lyrics
and screen heroines."
- The Times of India

"She is one of India's most celebrated Hindi film singers...
Together, L. Subramaniam and Kavita Krishnamurti symbolize the best in
music - global and Indian, classical and contemporary, instrumental
and vocal..."
-The Tabloid, Dubai

These are a few selected quotations from press around the world about
the legendary Kavita Krishnamurti Subramaniam.

Undoubtedly one of the favourites of the critics and the masses,
Kavita's singing career reads like a fairy tale. Her exquisite and
mellifluous voice, wide range and, versatility to sing different styles
and types of songs has put her in a unique place amongst singers and
she has been quoted as a "melody queen" by leading critics and
connoisseurs alike.

Kavita is a very rare personality who has served as a bridge from the
older film singers like Manna Dey, Kishore Kumar, right up to the
present day singers like Udit Narayan, Sonu Nigam and Shaan. Her
fantastic range and interpretation has led to collaborations with
diverse music directors like Naushad, Khayyam, OP Nayyar,
Lakshmikant-Pyarelal, R.D. Burman, Bappi Lahiri, A.R. Rahman, Anu
Malik, Nadeem Shravan, Jatin Lalit, Ismail Durbar, , Sanjeev-Darshan
and Shankar-Ehsan-Loy to name a few. Kavita's collaborations have
been with artists over three generations.

She has lent her voice to heroines from Nutan, Helen, Shabana, Sridevi,
Madhuri, Manisha, Kajol, to Karishma, Aishwarya ,Kareena and Rani
Mukherjee.

Born in Delhi, she began her vocal training under Sri Balram Puri, (in
the Hindustani style of music) at a very young age. Her incredible
talent was evident by age eight when she won her first gold medal at a
Music Competition. She also won gold medals both years she participated
in the Inter-Ministry Classical Competition in the mid 60s in New
Delhi.

Kavita enrolled at St. Xavier's College, Bombay where she obtained an
Honours Degree in Economics. While in college, she started singing
professionally on stage with the great music director and singer Hemant
Kumar, Mukesh and Manna Dey.

She began her recording career in 1971. Her first recording for a
Bengali film song was a duet with Lata Mangeshkar. "Maang Bharo
Sajna" was her first Hindi film under Sri Laxmikant Pyarelal followed
by "Pyar Jhukta Nahin". Since then, she has sung for many more
films like Mr. India, Karma, Saudagar, Khuda Gawah, Chaalbaaz, 1942 -
A Love Story, Yaarana, Mohara, Bombay, Saaz, Khamoshi, Pardesh,
Bhairavi, Agnisakshi, Prem Agan, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Bade Miyan Chhote
Miyan, Wajood, Hum Dil de Chuke Sanam, Taal, Hum Saath Saath Hain,
Vaastav, Khoobsurat, Gaja Gamini, Pukar, Dil Chahta Hai, Devdas, Dil
Vil Pyar Vyar, Jeena Sirf Tere Liye, The Rising, etc. Many of her songs
have gone platinum.

Kavita's exemplary voice has taken her all around the world,
including to the US, UK, Europe, Africa, Australia, Far East, Middle
East, South America. She has performed in some of the most prestigious
venues of the world including the Royal Albert Hall, London, The
Kennedy Centre, Washington D.C., Madison Square Gardens, The Lincoln
Centre, New York, the Zhongshan Music Hall, Beijing and The Esplanade,
Singapore Putra Jaya World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur, among others.
Having performed in every inhabited continent, there is very little
left of the world for Kavita to conquer with her voice.

Kavita has performed in every nook and corner of India from Punjab to
Kanyakumari and Bengal to Gujarat and the Andaman Islands. She has
performed in the largest concert halls and stadiums as well as in
remote places for the common man. Her voice has reached millions of
people touching their hearts as she has sung in almost all the Indian
languages including Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Bengali, Oriya,
Assamese, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bhojpuri, Jharkhandi,
Rajasthani and Konkani. She has also sung for several Nepalese and
Bangladeshi films. Kavita has also sung in English and recorded with
the famous Hollywood star Steven Seagal.

Although primarily a playback singer, Kavita has not allowed herself to
be limited. She has sung with orchestras as a soloist, she has
collaborated with Western artists from the Jazz, Popular and Classical
fields. She has sung ghazals and devotionals. She has even sung
Indi-Pop. Her classical jugalbandhi concert with Pandit Jasraj and Dr.
L. Subramaniam has been released both audio and DVD by Music Today.

Her many non-film albums include Koi Akela Kahan, Meera Ka Ram,
Mahalakshmi Stotra, Pop Time, Sai Ka Vardaan, Shagufthagi, Dil Ki Awaaz
and Devotional Melodies. She also sang for "Ramayana", an Indo-
Japanese ventures and several popular television serials in different
languages.

Her recent releases include the album Athens (Music Today), which
features the Olympic Torch Theme Song 'Lau Se Lau Jalti Hai',
written by Sri Gulzar and composed by Dr. L. Subramaniam was performed
when the Olympic flame was brought to India for the first time. She has
recorded for the ballet 'Asmita' - a ballet collaboration with
Dr. L. Subramaniam and danseuse Sonal Mansingh. Her most recent release
is a duet album "Mahiya" in Punjabi with the foremost Pakistani
ghazal singer Ghulam Ali.

Kavita's undaunted efforts to excel in the field of singing have
brought her several accolades, and a large fan following globally.
Prestigious awards include three consecutive Film Fare awards - a
feat rarely achieved, in 1995 for the film "1942 - A Love Story",
in 1996 for the film "Yaarana" and in 1997 for "Khamoshi". The
1997 Screen Award for "Khamoshi" and the 1998 Sansui Viewers Choice
Award were won by her. She also won the 1999 Screen Videocon Award for
"Hum Dil de Chuke Sanam" and 1999 Lux Zee Cine Award for "Hum Dil
de Chuke Sanam". She is the recipient of the Priyadarshini Award, the
Lion's Club Awards - Kala Sangam, the Lion's Award and the Kishore
Kumar Critics' Award.

Kavita Krishnamurti Subramaniam receiving the prestigious Lata
Mangeshkar award from Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Shivraj Singh
Chouhan for the year 2006.

She won the "Best Singer of the Millenium" award at the Stardust
Millennium 2000 Awards. She was twice the recipient of the Bollywood
Award, once in 2000 and 2002, held in New York. She is the recipient of
the Lux Zee Cine Award for the year 2003 for one of her songs from the
movie Devdas. She has also won the IFFI Award for the best singer. She
won the Gujarat state award for the best Gujarati film song.

Following her wedding to Dr L Subramaniam, Kavita has explored and
expanded her artistic range to areas which have never been explored by
singers before. She was the main featured soloist in the "Global
Fusion" album released by Warner Bros., featuring musicians from all
the five continents.

Kavita sang as a soloist with the Beijing Symphony Orchestra in a
historical concert where both the Indian President, H.E. K.R. Narayanan
and Chinese President H.E. Jiang Zemin were present along with other
dignitaries.

To commemorate 100 years of the Nobel Peace Prize, an album was
released bringing together the best musicians and excerpts from
speeches of Nobel laureates. For this project featuring artists from
all around the world, Kavita and Dr. Subramaniam were chosen to
represent the Asian continent. The composition, Transcendental Peace
features Dr. Subramaniam on the violin, Mrs. Subramaniam singing and
the words of Mother Teresa and Nelson Mandela. This historical compact
disc also features the music of Kris Kristofferson, Sinead O'Conner
and the words of Martin Luther King Jr., HH The Dalai Lama, Kofi Annan,
Yitzhak Rabin and Yaseer Arafat among others.

Bibliotheca Alexandria, the first library in the world existed in the
third century before our era. However, it was destroyed but now after
1600 years, the Bibliotheca Alexandria lives once again. Kavita
performed at the inaugural concert which was attended by President and
Mrs. Mubarak of Egypt, President and Mrs. Chirac of France, Queen Noor
of Jordan, the Queen of Spain and Queen Sophie of Belgium among other
Heads of States, Dignitaries and Nobel Laureates.

Kavita was asked to perform during Prince Charles' recent visit to
India at the Balayogi Auditorium (Parliament building) in New Delhi.

Her recent world tour includes appearances in Lincoln Centre, New York
(along with George Duke and Stanley Clarke), Putra Jaya World Trade
Centre, Kuala Lumpur, The Octagon Theatre, Perth and Esplanade,
Singapore.

Kavita also performed for H.E. Sri Abdul Kalam, the President of India
at the Mughal Gardens, Rashtrapati Bhawan on November 26th, 2004.

Kavita Krishnamurti Subramaniam is one artist who has managed to prove
herself in every musical field which she has chosen to enter, and has
enthralled and dazzled audiences from around the world with her stage
performances, recordings and playback singing for the past thirty
years... singing more than 15,000 songs. She is a true representative
of national integration.

Courtsey RMIM