Nithyasree Mahadevan

Singer

Nithyasree Mahadevan

Born: 25 August 1973

She also referred to as S. Nithyashri, is a Carnatic musician and playback singer for film songs in many Indian languages.
She has performed in all major sabhas in India.
She has released more than 500 albums. She is best known for her rendition of the A. R. Rahman composition, “Kannodu Kaanbadhellam” – her playback debut song in the Tamil movie Jeans.
She has given numerous concerts consisting of only patriotic songs to commemorate the 50th year of Indian Independence, a few with D. K. Pattammal before her grandmother stopped performing in public.
D. K. Jayaraman and D. K. Pattammal were known for singing and popularising the compositions of Papanasam Sivan, having learnt them directly from the composer himself.
She has continued this tradition.
She has also given a lecture-demonstration in Coimbatore for Manoranjitham on “Papanasam Sivan – A Legend”, and made two special thematic albums that solely contained his compositions.
Like D. K. Pattammal, Nithyasree presented a concert consisting solely of compositions set to raga Bhairavi.
Her concert was presented in 1994 over a duration of 3 hours and consisted of 17 compositions in total.
Similarly, in 1999, her album “BHAIRAVI” was released by Charsur Digital Workstation which solely consisted of a Ragam Tanam Pallavi in ragas containing the name “Bhairavi”.
Like D. K. Pattammal,she has also popularised compositions of Gopalakrishna Bharathi.
She presented a paper on the Life and Contribution of Gopalakrishna Bharathi for the Music Department of PSG College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore.
Her three thematic albums that solely consisted of his compositions have been very popular, both online and offline.
She has more than 750 albums to her credit on various themes and titles which are very popular among rasikas.