K. S. Chithra

The numbers around Chithra border on the unbelievable: over 25,000 recorded songs across nearly twenty languages in a career spanning five decades. That isn't a discography, it's an institution. National Film Awards and the Padma Bhushan confirm what the figures already shout. What moves me, though, is the idea behind playback singing itself: lending your voice to characters who will never be you, vanishing into other people's emotions take after take. She has effectively sung the soul into a vast swath of Indian cinema, and to that kind of generous, near-anonymous mastery I can only offer respect.

Name (English)

K. S. Chithra

Name (Japanese)

K・S・チスラ

Reading

K・S・ちすら

Born

July 27, 1963 (age 63)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Rabbit

Origin

Thiruvananthapuram, Thiruvananthapuram district, India

Occupation

playback singer

Awards & achievements

• 2005 Padma Shri in arts
• 2005 National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer
• Nandi Award
• honorary degree
• 2018 Rashtrapati Award
• Kalaimamani
• 2021 Padma Bhushan

• Official sitehttp://www.kschithra.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/kschithra/
• Xhttps://x.com/KSChithra
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.%20S.%20Chithra
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2049950

Tags

• Thiruvananthapuram district
• playback singer

Last updated

2026-06-18

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.