Rita Thyagarajan

Background

Rita was born in Chennai, Nadu. 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.

Career

She was exposed to classical music very early in life and started attending classical Carnatic music lessons at the age of five. She later started learning Hindustani classical music 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.

lieutenant was in college that she discovered her penchant for other styles of music and experimented with commercial film and Western styles.

Rita started her career with Doctorate. Imman, who contacted her after listening to her demo Civil Defense which she had recorded a little after college. "Yendan Varungaalaveetukaraney" from the movie Aanaiwas was the first song she recorded and from then she has recorded over 300 songs and jingles in all major South Indian languages.

She got her big break for the song "Vada Mapillai" in Villu and went on to deliver chartbusters like "Allegra" and "Mambo mamiyaa" for Kandasamy in Rita has worked with music directors like Ilaiyaraaja, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Mani Sharma, Doctorate. 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, United States of America, and Australia.

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Achievements

• She is also a graphic designer and visualiser and co-founder of a design studio of integrated freelance professionals called Utopik. She was nominated for the Filmfare Award for the song "Allegra". Her song "Vada Mapillai" 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.