Background
Gayatri Asokan is the daughter of Doctor P. U. Asokan and Doctor K. S. Sunidhy.
Gayatri Asokan is the daughter of Doctor P. U. Asokan and Doctor K. S. Sunidhy.
Template:About Gayatri Asokan Apart from singing, she also composes music for albums and jingles. She is well trained in Bhajans and Hindustani and ghazals. She started her playback career with the song "Deena Dayalo Rama" for the film Arayannagalude Veedu under music director Raveendran.
Her memorable hits include "Chanjadi Adi" from Makalkku, "Thumbikkinnaram" from Naran and "Pularumo" from Ritu.
Gayathri was first trained in Carnatic music by Sri Mangat Natesan and Sri Vamanan Namboodiri at Trichur. Later she started training in Hindustani music under Doctor Alka Deo Marulkar in Pune and later under Pandit Vinayaka Torvi in Bangalore, which she is continuing.
A person who has influenced Gayatri a lot is Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. She is also a Hindustani classical music singer, a Bhajan singer and has given Hindustani concerts and programs based on film songs abroad.
She has also shared the stage with eminent singers like South.P.Balasubramanyam, Yesudas, Jayachandran, South. Janaki, Shankar Mahadevan, Madhu Balakrishnan and Pradip Somasundaran.
She recently sang for an album by music maestro Ilayaraja, Thiruvasagam, which was released by Sony Music. She has performed for established sabhas like Thyagaraja Sabha, Bharatham and Soorya Festival at Trivandrum. She also has given performances for Soorya in the Gulf countries, Malaysia, Europe and the United Kingdom. She also performs regularly on Asianet, Kairali T.V, Jeevan T.V, and Amrita television Gandharva Sangeetham, a popular music talent search show on Kairali Television was jointly hosted by her and G. Venugopal.
Gayatri is a jury member for the hit reality show Super Star Global on Amrita television She is now anchoring popular gazal show Khayal on Media One television