Gayatri Asokan is a female playback singer in Malayalam movies who is trained vigorously in classical vocal music. She is a versatile singer who is an expert in singing Bhajans, Hindustani music, and Ghazals. This singer was born on March 2, 1979. She has a moderately successful career in singing in Malayalam movies. Her life was very much connected to music, and she was keen on learning more about her musical journey. She also did some albums and jingles to understand the music technique. Moreover, she has performed on stages with eminent playback singers like Yesudas, S.P.Balasubramanyam, S. Janaki,
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Gayatri does some private albums for ‘Art of Living Foundation’ which is run by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in Bengaluru. In this connection, she also has released an album for the foundation in September 2006. This album was released by musical company HMV worldwide. The singer has undergone training in Carnatic music and Hindustani music from classic vocalists like Pandit Vinayak Malharrao Torvi and a versatile vocalist, Dr. Alka Deo Marulkar. She showed a lot of promise as a singer but could not quite take her career to the next level. Like some of her peers, she was unable to get the leading music directors to help in her career. However, she made her break with the song ‘Deena Dayalo Rama" for the film "Arayannagalude Veedu". The film had music by composer Raveendran. Later, she sang for various music directors such as Vidyasagar, Ramesh Narayan, Johnson, Raveendran, Bennet Veetraag, Gopi Sunder, P.V. Mansoor, Bijibal, etc.
Gayatri received Kerala State Film Award for the song ‘Enthe Nee Kanna’ from the film ‘Sasneham Sumitra’ in the year 2003. She had also anchored a Ghazal reality show ’Khayal’ on Media One TV and was a judge for a music talent search show in television. She has sung famous duet songs with Yesudas in a film ‘Naran’ (2005) and sung a duet with Suchith Suresan Born on August 24, 1987, in Trivandrum, Kerala, Su >> Read More... in the film ‘ Ritu Click to look into! >> Read More... ’ (2005). She appears predominantly on many musical shows being aired on many TV channels in Kerala.
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Gayatri Asokan started her career playing the song "Deena Dayalo Rama" in the film Arayannagalude Veedu under music director Raveendran. Stoneham Sumitra's "Enthe Nee Kanna" won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Singer in 2003. "Chanjadi Adi" from Makalkku, "Thumbikkinnaram" from Naran, and "Pularumo" from Ritu are some of her hits.
Gayatri was first trained in Carnatic music by Sri Mangat Natesan and Sri Vamanan Namboodiri in Trichur. She later began training in Hindustani music under Dr. Alka Deo Marulkar in Pune and later under Pandit Vinayaka Torvi in Bangalore.
She is also a former Hindustani music artist and Bhajan artist and has provided Hindustani concerts and programs based on film songs abroad. She has sung 500 movie songs and has contributed to the new album Art of Living foundation, released in September 2006 by HMV worldwide. She recently sang Ilayaraja's album, Thiruvasagam, released by Sony Music.
Since 2017, Gayatri has withdrawn from the film music industry and started focusing on gazals.
She played for established sabhas and Festivals such as Thyagaraja Sabha, Bharatham, and Soorya Festival in Trivandrum. She also played for Soorya in the Gulf, Malaysia, Europe, and the UK. She also starred in Asianet, Kairali T.V, Jeevan T.V, and Amrita TV. Gandharva Sangeetham, a famous musical talent show on Kairali T.V. co-hosted by him and G. Venugopal. Gayatri is a judging member of the hit reality show Super Star Global It was a reality show which has been witnessed var >> Read More... on Amrita TV. She is now compiling the popular Khayal Gazal program on Media One TV. In 2019, she performed at Jashn-e-Rekhta, the annual three-day Urdu festival, and at the Urdu Heritage Festival, Delhi.
Gayatri Asokan is the daughter of Dr. P. U. Asokan and Drs. K. S. Sunidhi. Gayathri was married to Dr. Saij on January 4, 2005, but the couple later divorced. She is married to Purbayan Chatterjee. Singer Gayatri Asokan first met sitar maestro Purbayan Chatterjee during a soundtrack recording in Bengaluru.
Some of her works are Anahata - Art of Living, Neeyum Nilavum- Manorama Music, Thiruvasagam -Sony Music, Vishudhi- Art of Living, Sarveshwari- Art of Living, Iniyennum - East Coast, Pranayathhin Ormakal, Smaran - Art of Living, Sankirtan - The Art of Life.
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Gayatri Asokan is an active actress in a Malayalam movie. She began his career playing the song "Deena Dayalo Rama" in the film Arayannagalude Veedu under music director Raveendran. Stoneham Sumitra's "Enthe Nee Kanna" won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Singer in 2003. His memorable hits include "Chanjadi Adi" from Makalkku, "Thumbikkinnaram" of Naran, and "Pularumo" of Ritu. She later began training in Hindustani music under Dr. Alka Deo Marulkar in Pune and later under Pandit Vinayaka Torvi in Bangalore. She is also a former Hindustani music artist, and Bhajan artist, She has sung 500 movie songs and has sung and contributed to the new album Art of Living foundation released in September 2006 by HMV worldwide. She recently sang Ilayaraja's album, Thiruvasagam, released by Sony Music. Since 2017, Gayatri has withdrawn from the film music industry and started focusing on gazals.
She played for established Sabha such as Thyagaraja Sabha, Bharatham, and Soorya Festival in Trivandrum. She also played for Soorya in the Gulf, Malaysia, Europe, and the UK. She also starred in AsiaNet, Kairali T.V, Jeevan T.V, and Amrita TV. Gandharva Sangeetham, a famous musical talent shows on KairaliT.V. co-hosted by him and G. Venugopal. Gayatri is a judging member of the hit reality show Super Star Global on Amrita TV. She is now compiling the popular Khayal Gazal program on Media One TV. In 2019, she performed at Jashn-e-Rekhta, the annual three-day Urdu festival, and at the Urdu Heritage Festival, Delhi. She is the daughter of Dr.P.U.Asokan and Drs.K.S.Sunidhi. Gayathri was married to Dr. Saji on January 4, 2005, but the couple later divorced.
She is married to the actress Purbayan Chatterjee. Singer Gayatri Asokan first met sitar maestro Purbayan Chatterjee during a soundtrack in Bengaluru. They also played on the same recording and soon the two hit the ground running. For the singer who often collaborated with her husband on songs, especially in the past year, life after marriage opened up a “completely new state”. It is wonderful to have partners in the same industry. For us, she is a classical artist and she is also a ghazal artist, they both make music and that makes a big difference.
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