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Also known as Janaki, Amma, Sistla Sreeramamurthi Janaki, Sistla Janaki, Janaki Amma

Indian singer

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  • Śrī Umāpati Śivācārya, his life, works, and contribution to Saivism
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  • Mm. Professor Kuppuswami Sastri birth-centenary commemoration volume

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
India
Active from
1938-04-23
filmi

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Listeners
17,187
Total plays
238,170

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S. Janaki was born in Pallapatla, Repalle village, Guntur District of Andhra Pradesh. Janaki showed interest in music at a tender age and started singing at the age of three. She started learning music from a nadaswaram vidwan, Sree Paidiswamy. She moved to Chennai on the advice of her uncle Dr. Chandrashekar and joined as a singer in AVM Studio and started her career with Tamil films in 1957 in the film 'Vidhiyin Vilayattu' under the music director T. Chalapati Rao. Later, she got a chance in a

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