Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Top 10 Bollywood Female Singers, Best Indian Female Singers, Top India Women Singers

Name
Language of the Songs
Career Duration
Awards and Recognitions Received
Breif description of the career

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1) Lata Mangeshkar



Hindi, Marathi, Bengali,Oriya and Tamil
1941-current
Bharat Ratna, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, Dada Saheb Phalke Award, 3 National Awards, 6 Filmfare Awards, 2 Maharashtra State Awards
Sister of Usha Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle. Guinness Book of World Records holder for having made the most recordings in the world. (30,000 songs between 1948 and 1987, according to 1987 edition).
   
2) Asha Bhosle

Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, English, Russian, Czech, Nepali, Malay, Malayalam, Konkani, Oriya and other languages
1943-present
Padma Vibhushan, 2 National Awards, 7 Filmfare Award (plus Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award), 2 MTV Awards, Dadasaheb Phalke Award
Wife of R. D. Burman and younger sister of Lata Mangeshkar
   
3) Alka Yagnik

Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, Malayalam, Tamil, Oriya, Gujarati, Nepali, Assamese
1979-present
2 National Awards, 7 Filmfare Awards, 2 IIFA Awards, 4 Bollwood Movie Awards, 1 BJFA Award, 1 Sansui Award, 3 Zee Cine Awards, 3 Star Screen Awards, 1 MTV Award, BBC- Asia Pacific Nomination
Playback singer for over 550 films, and has approximately 15,000 songs to her credit.
   
4) K S Chitra

Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Oriya, Hindi, Bengali, English, Russian, German, Arabic, Tulu, Sinhalese.

1983-present
Padma Shri, 6 National Awards, 15 Kerala State Awards, 7 Andhra Pradesh State Awards, 4 Tamil Nadu State Awards, 3 Karnataka State Awards,4 FilmFare Awards From south,Tamilnadu government Kalaimamani Award
  
5) Kavita Subramaniam (Kavita Krishnamurthy)

Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Oriya
1980-current
Padma Shri, 4 Filmfare Awards,Yesudas Award, Priyadarshini Award, Kishore Kumar Award, 2 Bollywood Awards, 2 Zee Cine Awards, 1 Star Screen Award
Along with Alka Yagnik regarded as one of the most successful singers of 1990s and 2000s.
   
6) P. Susheela

Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi, Bengali, Oriya, Marathi, Sinhalese, Tulu, Sanskrit.
1951-present
Padma Bhushan, 5 National Awards, 7 Andhra Pradesh State Awards, 3 Tamil Nadu State Awards, 2 Kerala State Awards, Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award, Doctorate from Andhra university
 
7) S. Janaki

Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi, Oriya.
1957-Present
5 National Awards, 14 Kerala State Awards, 10 Andhra Pradesh State Awards, 7 Tamil Nadu State Awards,Doctorate from mysore university.
    
8) Shreya Ghoshal

Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Urdu
2002-present
4 National Awards, 4 Filmfare Awards, 2 Filmfare South Award, 3 Zee Cine Awards, 4 IIFA Awards, 1
Tamil Nadu state awardone of the most talented and successfull singers in present generation, most preferred singer .
 
9) Vani Jayaram

Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi, Hindi, Kannada, Oriya, Urdu
1971-1993
3 National Awards
Posed a big challenge for Lata mangeshkar in 1971 after singing in Guddi but eventually shifted base to the South.
  
10) Sadhana Sargam

Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Punjabi, Oriya and Urdu
1981-present
1 National Award, 2 Maharashtra State Awards, 3 Filmfare South Awards, 1 Zee Cine AwardOne of the most rated singers of her time.

5 comments :

Anonymous said...

Your account was wrong, Mangeshgar once held the record for most songs recorded however, SP.Balasubramaniyam surpassed her number latter on. Current Guinness record is held by KJ.Yesudas with over 40,000 songs

Fly high said...

Thanks for the Posting. Here in this article though I was talking of female singers and that's why lata mangeshkar. But your findings are informative. Pl Keep posting.

Anonymous said...

add my favourite singer sunidi chauvan too i luv shreya n sunidhi both they must b on the 1st rank in modern singers

Anonymous said...

ks chithra is best of all post her first.kehna nee kya....whoo what a beautiful song

Anonymous said...

I have been visiting various blogs for top 10 female Indian singers. I have found your blog to be quite useful. Keep updating your blog with valuable information... Regards

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