S. Janaki

S. Janaki
Janaki in 2007
Born	Sishtla Sreeramamurthy Janaki (1938-04-23) 23 April 1938 (age 78) Repalle, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India
Other names	Janakiamma, Nightingale of south India, Gaanakogile, Gaanasudhe, Gaanasaraswathi, Melody Queen of South India, Kannada Kogile.
Occupation	Playback Singer, Vocalist
Years active	1957–present
Spouse(s)	V. Ramprasad (1958–1990)(his death)
Children	Murali Krishna (b.1960)
Relatives	Garimella Balakrishna Prasad (Nephew) Uma Muralikrishna (Daughter-in-law)
Website	sjanaki.net

Sishtla Sreeramamurthy Janaki (born 23 April 1938), popularly known as S. Janaki, is an Indian legendary playback singer, and occasional music-composer. She's from Andhra Pradesh and is one of the best-known playback singers in South India who has recorded 48,000 songs in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Odiya, Hindi, Bengali, Tulu, Sanskrit, Sinhalese, Badaga, Punjabi, Urdu, Japanese, German, Latin and Arabic languages. Janaki started her career in 1957 and has spanned over six decades. She has recorded songs in more than seventeen regional Indian languages and foreign languages. She has won four National Film Awards and 33 different State Film Awards. Her association with singer S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and composer Ilaiyaraaja is well known. In the 1960s and1970s her duets with P. B. Srinivas, S.P.Balasubramanyam and with Dr. Rajkumar were some of the most romantic duets in the history of Tamil and Kannada film music.