Rita (Indian singer)

Rita Thyagarajan (born 10 June 1984), known by the mononym Rita, is an Indian playback singer who sings in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam.

Early life

Rita was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She was exposed to classical music very early in life and started attending classical Carnatic music lessons at the age of five. Her mother Lalitha Thyagarajan is a veteran illustrator and artist in Chennai and also a classical veena player while her father is employed with a popular Indian daily. She started learning Hindustani classical music also later and has trained under celebrated masters in Chennai. Her sister is also trained in classical Carnatic music and runs her own design consultancy business in Chennai. Rita did her early schooling in P.S.Senior Secondary School in Mylapore and moved on to do a Bachelors in Design from Stella Maris College like her mother and sister. It was in college that she discovered her penchant for other styles of music and experimented with commercial film and Western styles.

She is also a graphic designer and visualiser and co-founder of a design studio of integrated freelance professionals Utopik.

Early career

Rita started her career with D. Imman who contacted her after listening to her demo cd which she had recorded a little after college. YendanVarungaalaveetukaraney from the movie Aanaiwas the first song she recorded and from then she has recorded over 300 songs and jingles in all south indian languages. She got her big break for the song VadaMapillai in Villu and went on to deliver chartbusters like Allegra and Mambo mamiyaa for Kandasamy in Tamil. She was nominated for the Filmfare Award for the song Allegra. Her song VadaMapillai won the Best song of the year at the Radio Mirchi Music awards. She was simultaneously generating hits in Telugu like Khilaadikoona from Athidhi for Mani Sharma and Panchadharabomma for M. M. Keeravani which again won the Song of the year award at the Radio Mirchi music awards.

Rita has worked with music directors like Ilaiyaraaja, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Mani Sharma, D. Imman, Vidyasagar, Devi Sri Prasad, M. Jeychandran, M. M. Keeravani and many more. She also performs for stage shows across the world in countries like Singapore, Malaysia, Dubai, Canada, USA, Australia, etc.

Tamil

References

Rita - Sunrisers - tamil / Telugu

• "Rita - Sunrisers - tamil / Telugu - YouTube". youtube.com. Retrieved 2014-08-25. 
• "In tune with the times". go-nxg.com. Retrieved 2014-08-25. 
• My first break - Singer Rita

External links

• "Welcome to Singer Rita's website". ritasinger.in. Retrieved 2014-08-25. 
• "Rita singer interview part1 - YouTube". youtube.com. Retrieved 2014-08-25.