Devi darisanam nithyasree mahadevan biography

Nithyasree Mahadevan (born 25 August 1973), also referred to as S. Nithyasree, is a Carnatic musician and playback singer for film songs in many Indian languages.

Nithyashree has performed in all major sabhas in India. She has released more than 500 albums.

Nithyasree songs

She is best known for her rendition of the A. R. Rahman composition, "Kannodu Kaanbadhellam" - her playback debut song in the Tamil movieJeans.^[1]

Family

Nithyasree was born to Lalitha Sivakumar and Iswaran Sivakumar.

Her paternal grandmother, D. K. Pattammal,^[2] and her grand-uncle, D. K. Jayaraman,^[3] were prominent Carnatic vocalists who were established disciples of Ambi Dikshithar, Papanasam Sivan, Koteeswara Iyer, T.L.Venkataramayyar and others.

Her maternal grandfather was the mridangam maestro, Palghat Mani Iyer.^[4]

Nithyasree first learnt music from her mother, Lalitha Sivakumar.^[3] Like her mother,^[5] Nithyasree was also the