1. Listen Kavita Krishnamurthy on Saavan app.

http://www.saavn.com/s/artist/kavita-krishnamurthy-albums/jqEqWhvcxbM_

2.Mile Sur Mera Tumhara

Mile Sur Mera Tumhara as it is better known, is an Indian song and accompanying
Video promoting national integration and unity in diversity and recorded by people
from all walks of life
Including a super group of Indian celebrities-Musicians,Sportsman,Movie stars etc.
There are 15 languages used in songs :Hindi,Telugu, Tamil, Marwari,
Gujrati,Urdu,Punjabi,Sindhi Kashmiri ,Kannada,Malyalam,Bengali ,Odia,Assamese
and Marathi
Singers:Kavita Krishnamurthy,Bhimsen Joshi,Lata Mangeshkar, M
Balamuralikrishna,shubangi boss,Suchitra Mitra

3. 'Gour Hari Dastaan

It's not everyday that one gets to see violinist-composer Dr L Subramaniam and
singer Kavita Krishnamurthy be part of a Hindi film music album. Married for 15 years
now, the couple opens up about their long-term musical partnership, touring for

concerts with family and collaborating for the upcoming film, 'Gour Hari Dastaan

4.

Family of Kavita

. Subramaniam and Kavita has three children, Bindu Subramaniam is

a law graduate and singer/songwriter. Narayana, the middle one, is a
qualified doctor. The youngest, Ambi Subramaniam, is an accomplished
violinist.Kavita and her family have settled in Bengaluru, Karnataka
since Kavita's marriage

5. Do You Know?

Kavita was the main featured soloist in the Global Fusion album
released by Warner Bros., featuring musicians from all the five
continents. Kavita has sung as a soloist with orchestras like the
Beijing Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Philharmonic, Fairfax
Symphony, the BBC Radio Orchestra and the London Symphony
Orchestra.
She has collaborated with Jazz and Pop artistes, including Al
Jarreau, George Duke, Stanley Clarke, Larry Coryell and Steven
Seagal. She has released albums of ghazals, devotionals, Indi-pop
and also a classical jugalbandhi album with Pandit Jasraj and Dr. L.
Subramaniam. She sang for Ramayana, an Indo-Japanese venture,
and several popular television serials in different languages.

Kavita has won several awards including the Padmashri, four

Filmfares, Screen, Zee Cine, GiMA, Lata Mangeshkar Award,
Kishore Kumar Award, IFFI, and the Best Singer of the Millenium
award at the Stardust Millennium 2000 Awards.

.6 Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (English: I Have Given My Heart, Beloved) is a

1999 Bollywood romantic drama film whose title song sung by Kavita Krishna
Murthy. It was released in the English-speaking world as Straight from the Heart
The film stars Salman Khan, Aishwarya Rai and Ajay Devgan.
The story is adopted from Maitreyi Devi's Bengali novel Na Hanyate, and is
based on a love triangle. It also reflects the influence of the German

novella Immensee and the 1943 Nazi era film based on it, Immensee. It was
filmed throughout the Gujarat-Rajasthan border region, in addition to Budapest,
Hungary, which was used to represent Italy. The film was premiered in the
Indian Panorama section at the 1999 International Film Festival of India

7. I Love My India

Do you remember the line Yeh Mera India, I Love My India from the film Pardes, in the
year 1997? That was Kavita Krishnamurthy singing her heart out in praise for the
motherland. Her vocals in the film, Karma for the track Har Karam Apna Karenge, have
also been well appreciated. Krishnamurthy was featured both in old and new versions of
Mile Sur Mera Tumhara.

8 .Dhrupad
Dhrupad is the most ancient style of Hindustani classical music that has survived until today in its original
form. The Dhrupad tradition is a major tradition of Indian culture.
The nature of Dhrupad music is spiritual. Seeking not to entertain, but to induce feelings of peace and
contemplation in the listener. The word Dhrupad is derived from DHRUVA the steadfast evening star that
moves through our galaxy and PADA meaning poetry. It is a form of devotional music that traces its origin
to the ancient text of Sam Veda. The SAM VEDA was chanted with the help of melody and rhythm called
Samgana. Gradually this developed into other vocal style called Chhanda and Prabandha with
introduction of verse and meter. The fusion of these two elements led to the emergence of Dhrupad.
Performance of Dhrupad is done in two parts Alap and Bandish in Alap singer uses syllables from
Sanskrit Mantra which add texture to the notes however Bandish is a short poem accompanied by
Pakhawaj.The singer and Pakhawaj create a dialogue often playing against or complimenting one
another.

9. Khyal
Khyal is another form of Hindustani classical music.In modern era Khyal is replacing Dhrupad style.
Khyal is more romantic music.Khyal is perstian term which means imagination.The most important feature
of Khyal is Tans or running glidens over notes and boltans which clearly distinguished it from Dhrupad.
The singer is accompanied generally on Tabla,Harmonium or Sarangi.

10. Lakshminarayana Global Music Festival.

Krishnamurthy is also known for her role in organising Lakshminarayana Global Music
Festival. The annual festival is hosted by Krishnamurthy and her husband who is a violin
maestro Subramaniam. The festival has been held in 55 cities across 22 countries.
Commenting on the same, she said, "The festival has had its abroad editions in the past, we
would have it in the future as well." Commenting on the next edition, she said that it will
continue to be six - city festival that will take place somewhere between December 2015
and January 2016.

11. Kavita Krishnamurthy to release her

solo album by end of 2015
Padmashree awardee Kavita Krishnamurthy has been globetrotting for her gigs for many
years now. This might have kept her busy for some time but it did not stop her from
completing her untitled debut solo album.
"The album is on the verge of completion. It took me long to finish the album because of my
prior commitments. The album will be out by the end of 2015." Krishnamurthy started
working on the album three years ago.
The album will have eight to nine songs and will feature artistes like Pandit Jasraj, Lucky Ali,
Sonu Nigam and Krishnamurthy's better half Dr L Subramaniam. The lyrics of the album are
penned by lyricist Javed Akhtar and Ravindra Jain.

Women's Day Special: Spreading Melodies

Everywhere
12.

Women's Day Special: Spreading Melodies Everywhere is a studio album by various

Indian music artists, released as a tribute to women on the venue of International
Women's Day in 2014.

The album consists of eight tracks, which have been sung by Alka Yagnik, Asha
Bhosle, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Lata Mangeshkar,Shreya Ghoshal, Sunidhi
Chauhan, Udit Narayan, Rekha Raj and Priyanka Bhattacharya.myself sang a song
titled "Koi Chahat Koi Hasrat"
Music composers include Bappi Lahiri, Farid Sabri, Ram Shankar, Shamir Tandon,
Sunil Jha, Nayab Raja, Shakir Ali, Dilshaad, Narayan Das, Harish
Chauhan, Khayyam and Gurudatt Sahil; while Saajan Agarwal, Ahmed Wasi,

Sudhakar Sharma, A. K. Mishra, Dipti Mishra and Meenu Singh have penned the
lyrics.

13. A Bhajan is any type of Hindu devotional song. It has no fixed form: it may be as
simple as a mantra or kirtan or as sophisticated as the dhrupad or kriti with music
based on classical ragas and talas. It is normally lyrical, expressing love for
the Divine. The name, a cognate of bhakti, meaning religious devotion, suggests its
importance to the bhakti movement that spread from the south of India throughout
the entire subcontinent in the Moghul era.
Listen here to the wonderful melodious devotional songs of the Kavita Krishnamurthy. Music and Lyrics
given by Ravindra Jain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXwX3Thbdu0

14.Fusion Performance
L. Subramaniam, violin visionary, an Indian master, creates a new global fusion.
Rhythm, USA
The finest exponent of this (fusion) genre is L. Subramaniam, whose sensational
efforts... have won him world-wide acclaim.
Dr. L. Subramaniam, the pioneer of fusion in India began collaborations with global
musicians in 1973, while he was still a student in the California Institute of Arts.
Since that time, he has performed and recorded with artists around the world from a
number of musical backgrounds and genres, including Yehudi Menuhin, Stephane
Grappelli, Jean-Pierre Rampal, George Harrison, Stevie Wonder, Ruggiero Ricci,
Herbie Hancock, Joe Sample, Stanley Clarke, George Duke, Al Jarreau, Jean Luc
Ponty, Earl Klugh, Larry Coryell, Ernie Watts, Corky Siegel, Tony Williams, Billy
Cobham, Arve Tellefsen, John Surman, Maynard Ferguson, Ravi Coltrane, Solo
Cissokho, Baba Olatunji, Jei Bing Chen and Miya Masaoka
.Nowadays is wife Kavita Krishnamurthy also accompany him. As she actively
started exploring fusion music, Kavita travelled around the world including to the
US, UK, Europe, Africa, Australia, the Far East, the Middle East, and South America.
She performed in concert halls including Royal Albert Hall in London, The Kennedy
Center in Washington, D.C.., Madison Square Garden, The Lincoln Center in New
York City, the Zhongshan Music Hall in Beijing, The Esplanade in Singapore, The

Putra Jaya World Trade Centre in Kuala Lumpur, and Gewandhaus Leipzigm.

15. 1942: A Love Story is a 1994 Bollywood film starring Anil

Kapoor, Manisha Koirala, Jackie Shrof, Anupam Kher, Danny Denzongpa,
and Pran.The film's music was composed by music director R.D.
Burman with lyrics by Javed Akhtar. R.D. Burman won his last Filmfare
Award for Best Music Director and Javed Akthar bagged the Filmfare
Award for Best Lyricist. Kumar Sanu won his 5th consecutive Filmfare
Award for Best Male Playback Singer and for Pyar Hua Chupke Se
Kavita Krishnamurthy won the Filmfare Award for Best Playback Singer for
this song. This song conveys the innocence of a girl and Kavita doesnt fall
short in emoting that efortlessly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMCGeLdhL-M

16.Devdaas
Devdas (Shahrukh Khan) makes his way back home to India after spending 10 years studying in London.
He plans to marry Paro (Aishwarya Rai), his childhood best friend, but his parents (Vijay Crishna, Smita
Jaykar) do not want Devdas to marry her. They believe that Paro's family, who descend from a line of
dancers, is of a lower class than their own. Eventually, Paro marries another man, and the despondent
Devdas descends into life-threatening alcoholism.
Watch the eternal bollywood beauties Aishwarya Rai & Madhuri Dixit dance along to the tunes of Dola Re
Dola a traditional dance number from Devdas. The song is sung by Kavita Krishnamurthy, Shreya
Ghoshal & K.K

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbn39j-xa-k

17.

Aaj Main Upar (Khamoshi, 1996)

What a movie and what a song! Another remarkable work of hers

for that won her the acclaimed Filmfare Award. This song expresses
the excitement of a girl and the happiness doesnt miss reaching
your heart, with Kavitas unblemished contribution
https://youtu.be/uUEZBCs-WxE

18.

Mera Piya Ghar Aaya (Yaraana, 1995)

Another peppy song to her name is from the film Yaraana. It also
won her the Filmfare award and is one of the hit numbers of the 90s
era.

https://youtu.be/nqcipAdbGpQ

19. Kehna Hi Kya (Bombay, 1995)

A.R. Rahmans soulful music was given an equally soulful feel by
Kavita Krishnamurthy in this song. This song is said to have been
included in the 1000 Song Everyone Must Hear list by The
Guardian. With the precision in singing, Kavita has displayed her
singing talent to the utmost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiOw_kJRT5E

20.

Hawa Hawai (Mr. India, 1987)

This bubbly number from Mr. India has been sung by Kavita
Krishnamurthy with lot of vigor and life. You will find yourself
humming the tune and getting addicted to this peppy number.
https://youtu.be/y_FPWx0iRxE

21.Taal ("Ishq Bina Ishq Bina")

Taal was a moderate success at the box office in India and was the
third highest-grossing film of the year. It was also the highest-

grossing film in the overseas markets that year. In the United States
it became the first Indian film to reach the top 20 on Variety's box
office list.Taal also made the list of the weekly top ten grossing films
in the United Kingdom. The film was screened at the Chicago
International Film Festival and selected by Roger Ebert for his 2005
Overlooked Film Festival.
"Ishq Bina Ishq Bina" Ishq Bina - Kavita Krishnamurthy &

Sukhwinder Singh's Superhit Duet - Taal

A.R Rehman as Music Director

https://youtu.be/FGPpcn7oJzM

22. Carnatic Classical(Thillana)

Carnatic confined to four modern states of India: Andhra

Pradesh, Karnataka , Kerala, and Tamil Nadu. It is one of two main
subgenres of Indian classical music that evolved from
ancient Hindu traditions A Thillana or thillana is a rhythmic piece
in Carnatic music that is generally performed at the end of a concert
and widely used in dance performances. A Tillana uses tala-like
phrases in the pallavi and anupallavi , and lyrics in the charanam.
Some have theorized that it is based on the Hindustani tarana

Padma Shri Kavita Krishnamurthi is a veteran playback singer &

Carnatic musician who have sung more than 500 Bollywood songs.
Watch her special appeance at Idea Jalsa while performing on
Tillana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nqzZ76j2nA

23. Ghazal
The ghazal is a poetic form consisting of rhyming couplets and
a refrain, with each line sharing the same meter. A ghazal may be
understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or
separation and the beauty of love in spite of that pain. The form is
ancient, originating in Arabic poetry in Arabia long before the birth
of Islam. The term Ghazal is of North African and Middle Eastern
origin. he ghazal spread into South Asia in the 12th century due to
the influence of Sufi mystics and the courts of the new
Islamic Sultanate. Although the ghazal is most prominently a form
of Dari poetry and Urdu poetry , today it is found in the poetry of
many languages of the Indian sub-continent

Watch yet another amazing musical performance by Padma Shri

Kavita Krishnamurthy Dil Ki Aawaaz (Ghazal)
at the grand Idea Jalsa musical concert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15dqig9Hguo

24.Bhajan

A Bhajan (Hindi : ) is any type of Hindu devotional song . It has

no fixed form: it may be as simple as a mantra or kirtan or as
sophisticated as the dhrupad or kriti with music based
on classical ragas and talas . It is normally lyrical, expressing love
for the Divine. The name, a cognate of bhakti, meaning religious
devotion, suggests its importance to the bhakti movement that
spread from the south of India throughout the entire subcontinent in
the Moghul era.

Tulsidas: Shri Ramachandra Kripalu Bhaju Man a Bhajan sung by

Kavita Krishnamurthy which says
O my mind! Revere the kind Sri Rama, who can remove the fear of rebirths,
Who has lotus eyes, lotus face and lotus hands, lotus feet, red like the rising sun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75CocKdL76Q

25.Jango Radio Station

Listen her online on jango radio station

http://www.jango.com/music/Kavita+Krishnamurthy+Subramaniam
?l=0

26.Once upon a time performing live in Ohio

Moments from a live concert by Kavita Krishnamurthy at
Dayton,Ohio(june 2010) where she sang all her favourite number
from the bollywood movies.The concert is organized by Yukta Garg
Memorial Foundation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04iYfhk6t3E

27. Appearance on TV
Kavita Subramaniam has been making appearances in various music
reality shows as a guest judge owing to her popularity as a playback
singer. She recently was a judge for Bharat Ki Shaan: Singing Star
(Season 1), which aired on DD National at prime time. She also

appeared in Vijay TV Airtel Super Singer and Colors Bangla Great

Music Gurukul.

28. Indipop Collaborations

Lucky Ali/ Kavita Krishnamurthy Gori Teri Aankhen Kahe is One of
the non-guitar and quite un-Lucky songs, as in it sounds more like a
Bollywood song than a Lucky Ali album song. This one boasts of a
beautiful melody and the high pitched vocals of Lucky Ali get
contrasted by the serene aalaps of Kavita. My favourite bits of the
song are quite unsurprisingly the female portions when Kavita sings
Dil Mein teri yaad hai tera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hP0TR_ODl0

29.

Dhol Bajne Laga (Virasat, 1997)

This song gives you a lot of enthusiasm. The energy is well captured
in the music and the powerful voice of Kavita. This fast paced
number is another memorable work of hers. Dhol Bajne Laga - Anil
Kapoor - Pooja Batra - Virasat Songs - Udit Narayan - Kavitha
Krishnamurthy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGFQks-tEJk

30 Maar Dala (Devdas, 2002)

Known for its epic acting and fantabulous songs, this movie had
Kavita sing some great numbers. She was the voice for songs

picturized on Madhuri Dixit. This song of the courtesan singing for

Devdas, was not only beautifully sung but also remarkably shot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVg6Ehu1VXY