Chinmayi Sripada

                                              

About Chinmayi:

Chinmayi Sripada (Tamil: சின்மயி ஸ்ரீபதா; born September 10, 1984) is a Tamil playback singer singing predominantly in Tamil. She is also a voice actor in Tamil films, a television presenter, a radio jockey, an active blogger, and founder and CEO of a translation services company called Blue Elephant.

Early Life:

Chinmayi inherited her musical talent from her mother, T. Padmasani, from whom she learned Hindustani and Carnatic music. Chinmayi attended the Children's garden school until the age of 10. Then, she pursued her secondary education in Hindu Senior Secondary School in Indira Nagar. Thanks to her mother's influence, she used to win a lot of competitions in school. After an ugly spat with school authorities, she did her higher secondary education in home modules. The home module study gave her ample time to concentrate on various other fields, which was a new experience for a student of her age in that city. She learned German as a language in the Max Mueller Bhavan in Chennai and completed certification courses from NIIT and SSI in web design. During her school life, she held jobs with both Sify and studentconcepts.org. Chinmayi currently holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Madras. Apart from Tamil and English, Chinmayi also speaks Telugu, Hindi and German fluently and claims to be a polyglot.

Career:

Her Career Began when she participated and won the reality show of Sun TV called as Saptasawarangal the judge none other than Singer Srinivas noticed her talent and introduceed her to A.R.Rahman..

Playback singing:

Chinmayi's playback singing career began with her award-winning performance of A. R. Rahman's "Kannathil Muthamittal" in Mani Ratnam's Tamil film. After a couple of years of singing exclusively for Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Tulu and Malayalam films, she made her Bollywood debut in Mangal Pandey: The Rising with the song "Holi Re". About a year later, she garnered more recognition with her performances of "Tere Bina" and "Mayya" in the movie Guru. In 2007, the song "Beda Beda" marked her first venture into Kannada playback singing. She has since received critical acclaim for songs such as "Sahana", Mayya Mayya, "Vaarayo Vaarayo", "Anbil Avan", Maiyya Yashoda, "Madhno", Kilimanjaro and Nenjil Nenjil.Her songs like Sahana,Vaarayo Vaarayo,Kilimanjaro has been selected as the No. 1 Song of the Year by various Radio Stations.Recent International recognition was when her song Nenjil Nenjil was selected as No. 1 song in the Top 10 songs of THR Radio of Malaysia.

Dubbing Artiste:

Chinmayi's first venture as a dubbing artist came in 2006 when she served as the voice of Bhumika Chawla in the Tamil film Sillunu Oru Kadhal. Since then, she has dubbed for 14 other actresses in 20 movies. The year 2010 marked Chinmayi's rise of fame into Telugu voice acting when she dubbed for Samantha Ruth Prabhu in Ye Maaya Chesave, even though she already dubbed for Sameera Reddy in Telugu for the movie Surya s/o Krishnan, a Telugu-dubbed version of the Tamil film Vaaranam Aayiram,the her journey continued to dub for Trisha Krishnan in Manmadha Baanam.As for Tamil industry she has dubbed for actresses like Tamannaah Bhatia, Sameera Reddy, Trisha Krishnan and various other actresses.She has lent her voice to Karthika Nair in Ko and Sameera Reddy in Nadunissi Naaygal in 2011.


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Chinmayi has a part in Advertisements also.She has sung for various brands and also dubbed for various artists in Ads.The list of Ads that she has sung and dubbed for:


                                 

As a Singer

• The Chennai Silks (Vivaha Pattu) - Pattu Katti
• Maa Advertisemen - Anbukku
• Kalyan Jewellers - Humming
• Toyota Etios Theme Song - Pehli Baar
• Prince Jwellery Ad - Sikkadha Nagaiyum
• Tata Gold Plus Ad
• Pepsi Ad
• Nali Silks Ad
• Textile India Ad
• Spinz Talc Ad
• Nyle Ad
• Suryan Fm title song
• Ragamalika Title Song

As a Dubbing Artist

• The Chennai Silks (Vivaha Pattu) - Anushka Shetty
• Tata Gold Plus Ad
• Head and Sholders - Anushka Shetty

Television hosting and radio jockeying

Chinmayi served as host during the first season of Super Singer on STAR Vijay that was aired between April and August 2006 and the first season of Airtel Super Singer Junior from February 2007 to July 2007. In 2008, she returned as host of the second season of Airtel Super Singer, though she discontinued her role before the completion of the season. During this time, she was also a radio presenter on Aahaa FM 91.9 in Chennai, on a breakfast show titled Aahaa Kaapi Klub, which aired Monday through Saturday from 7 to 10 am. As of July 24, 2010, Chinmayi began compering Star Plus's Chhote Ustaad, which is running concurrently with another music talent show she started hosting in June, Sun TV's Sangeetha Maha Yuddham. On August 15, 2010, Chinmayi announced that that day's Chhote Ustaad would be her last as host, leaving the show after only eight episodes.


Entrepreneurship:
Chinmayi serves as CEO of Blue Elephant, a translation services company she founded in August 2005.She received an award from SAARC Chamber for Women Entrepreneurship for Excellence for Blue Elephant in 2010.She marked her next milestone in her career as a CEO and Founder by being the first ever women entrepreneur to be selected for the prestigious FORTUNE/U.S. State Department Global Women’s Mentoring Partnership Program in 2011 from Tamil Nadu.

Title songs for Television Serials:

Chinmayi has also sung title songs for various TV serials.Her first one Anbull Snehithi came to her after she was introduced to the serial director by none other than Director Mani Ratnam.The list of Serials she has sung for:

• Song - Serial Name
• Snehithi - Anbull Snehithi (Tamil)
• Natakam - Natakam (Telugu)
• Paathaigal - Paathaigal(Tamil)
• Sarathakam - Sarathakam (Telugu)
• Pratigatana - Pratigatana(Telugu)
• Naana - Naana(Telugu)
• Vaaram - Vaaram(Tamil)
• Ganga - Ganga Gayathri(Tamil)
• Kanavugal - Kanavugal(Tamil)
• Maraka - Maraka Mudiyuma(Tamil)
• Marum Yugangal - Simran Thirai (Tamil and Telugu)
• Oru Siru Siru - Idhayam Thotta Kathigal(Tamil)
• Oru Nathi - Saratha(Tamil)
• Pookkal Adhu - Appa(Tamil)
• Thooradha - Meera(Tamil)
• Uyire Uyirin - Kanmaniye(Tamil)
• Kodi Mullai - Kodi Mullai(Tamil)