Born as Sharada Krishnamurthy, singer Kavitha Krishnamurthy celebrates her 55th birthday today, the Padmashri awardee has sung some beautiful tracks which we still hear and sing. Today, Nagpur Today will tell you some unknown facts about this beautiful lady with a soothing voice:
• Kavita Krishnamurthy was born in the capital of India, New Delhi. Her father was an official working with the Education Ministry.
• At the age of eight, she won her first gold medal at a music competition.
• At the young age of nine, she got an opportunity to record a Tagore song in Bengali with the legendary Lata Mangeshkar under the auspices of the music composer Hemant Kumar.
• She sang the song “Kaahe Ko Byaahi” in the film Maang Bharo Sajna in 1980 which featured in her own voice. Unfortunately, the song was dropped from the final cut.
• Kavitha Krishnamurthy married Dr. L. Subramaniam in Bangalore on November 11 1999. Dr. L. Subramaniam is himself a world class violin player in the karnataki tradition.
• Dr. L. Subramaniam has three children from his earlier marriage and she accepted them as her own children.
• Dr. L. Subramaniam and Mrs. Subramaniam are planning a music institute in Bangalore. It would be named after her late father-in-law Lakshminarayana, who was also her husband’s guru. The idea is to make it a global institute. She says that the institute would teach both Indian and Western music. She wants her students to learn from the works of Mozart so that they can collaborate with western musicians who come to India. The dream has begun with violin classes. She says that she is not going to be involved in too many classes. Her role in the institute would be to supervise the teaching process and conduct workshops on how to interpret a song.
Well, after knowing so much about the birthday girl, we can just say, “All the best Ms. Hawa Hawai!”
– Yash Raj. Trivedi
