She is also an accomplished Western Classical opera singer, having undergone intensive training from Prof. Viswanathan in Carnatic music and has had intensive training under Pandit Mannikbua Thakurdas for Hindustani classical music. She was trained by many esteemed gurus like Thanjavur S. She was given a fellowship to do her Master of Arts degree in Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University, Connecticut. She has a B.A and M.A in music from Madras University and secured the university gold medal in both the courses. Francis Matriculation School, and later at the Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan, Chennai. She did her schooling (I and II standards) in Coimbatore at the St. Retrieved 28 December 2011.Anuradha was born in Chennai to playback singer Renuka Devi and Meenakshi Sundaram Mohan. "Columns / M.V. Ramakrishnan : Musicscan – Contrasting colours". Archived from the original on 20 February 2007.
^ ": Movies: A duet for life: Anuradha and Sriram Parasuram".^ Naman Ramachandran (12 December 2012).^ "Queen Mary's College, the home of musicians, on song".She also worked as voice actor lending her voice for Kiran for the film Anbe Sivam (2003).
She has composed music for the film Five Star and television series Sivamayam produced by Radaan for Sun TV along with her husband. Having sung more than 2,000 songs in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam, and six north Indian languages, some of her hits are "Nalam Nalam Ariyaaval" ( Kaadal Kotai), "Dilruba Dilruba" ( Priyam), "Meenamma" ( Aasai), "Acham Acham Illai" ( Indira), "Phenk Hawa" ( Ram Jaane) and "Pehli Pehli" ( Zor). She has also presented many music programmes on TV. She also collaborates with her husband Sriram Parasuram on their Classical Music Jugalbandhi concerts and their hit TV programme "Elaame Sangeetham Thaan". She specialises in Carnatic music and has sung in over 1,000 concerts worldwide.Īnuradha has several chart-topping Devotional albums to her credit. Her first solo was for A R Rahman in Indira.
In 1995, she was introduced as a singer by A R Rahman for the song "Malarodu Malaringu" in the movie Bombay. Anuradha Sriram first entered the Tamil Cinema Industry as a child artist in the 1980 Tamil film Kaali. While in Wesleyan, apart from learning and performing western opera and jazz, she also performed in many Indonesian and West African music concerts.Īnuradha has performed extensively all over India and US, and has given many radio and TV programmes since the age of 12. Brinda and T. Viswanathan in Carnatic music and has had intensive training under Pandit Mannikbua Thakurdas for Hindustani classical music. She was trained by many esteemed gurus like Thanjavur S. Kalyanaraman, Sangeetha Kalanidhi T. She was given a fellowship to do her Master of Arts degree in Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University, Connecticut, US. She has a B.A and M.A in music from Queen Mary's College in Madras University and secured the university gold medal in both the courses. She did her schooling (I and II standards) in Coimbatore at the St. Francis Anglo-Indian Girls School, and later at the Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan, Chennai. Anuradha was born in Chennai to playback singer Renuka Devi and Meenakshi Sundaram Mohan.