Raavu Balasaraswathi

Rao Balasaraswathi Devi is a famous Indian singer and a talented actress who worked mainly in the South Indian Film Industry. The first Playback singer of the Telugu Film Industry, R Balasaraswathi Devi, was born on 28 August 1928 in Venkatgiri, Madras Presidency (Andhra Pradesh). She started learning music in her childhood and gave voice for the first solo gramophone at six for the HMV music company. At the age of 8, she acted and sang for C. Pulliah's films Sati Anasuya and Bhakta Dhruva in 1936. Balasaraswathi Devi got appreciation from a famous director, K. She lived in Mysore and Hyderabad and shifted to Secunderabad with her son post the death of her husband. Subramaniam, and got an opportunity to work with him in Tamil movies.

She worked in numerous films with many renowned stars in the Tamil Film Industry, like Bhaktha Kuchela in 1936, Balayogini in 1937, Tukaram in 1938, Thiruneelakantar in 1939 by Raja Sandow, and Illalu in 1940 by Gudavalli Ramabrahmam Born on June 24, 1902, in Nandamuru, Andhra Prades >> Read More... . In her career, she mainly focused on singing but still managed to appear in a few Tamil and Telugu films like Sabhash Raja (1961), Shanthi Nivasam (1960), and Bilhana (1948), Radhika (1947), etc. In 1943, she recorded her first song as the first playback singer in Telugu cinema for the film Bhagya Lakshmi Baakiyalakshmi is a Tamil TV serial telecast on St >> Read More... , Thinne Meedha Sinnoda. It has sung for Kamala Kotnis Kamala Kotnis is one of the most well known ever y >> Read More... on screen and was composed by Bhimavarapu Narasimha Rao. Starting from 1939, she sang several songs for movies and albums. R Balasaraswathi Devi was the first light singer on Akashwani or All India Radio.

Balasaraswathi Devi sang most of her duets with famous singers Ghantasala Venkateswararao and AM Rajah, and some songs with singers like Pillavalu Gajapathi Krishnaveni, AP Komala Arkadu Parthasarathy Komala (A.P. Komala) is a pla >> Read More... , MS Rajeswari M.S. Rajeswari, she is an Indian playback singer. >> Read More... , K Rani, and P Susheela. Her songs were mainly composed by Gopalan Iyer Ramanathan and KV Mahadevan. Kanipinchitiva Narasimha, Ravoji Jilvana Jyoti, Mamatho Yemo Chandrudela, Ee Seema Velasina, Reethiye Leni Naa Vraatha, Bhramara Yidemaya Ento, Natiroju Yela Radhu, and Hailelo Naa Raaja are some of the most played Telugu songs by Balasaraswathi Devi.

The Tamil hits by her are O Muthu Papa, Ammaa Ammaa Ena, Pagattum Penne Yeno, Idhu Enna Vedhanai, Dhevi Dhevi Agathi En Vinai, Kalaityaadha Aasai Kanave, Soodaadha Malarai, Paarmuzhuthum Irul Parappum, and many more. Along with Tamil and Telugu, she sang the Malayalam song Pandu-Pandu Pande for the movie Swargarajyam in 1962 and a few Kannada songs for the films Bhagyodaya and Bhagyachakra in 1956. She has honored with Ramineni Foundation Award in 2003.

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Raavu Balasaraswathi was a popular Telugu and Tamil film actor in yesteryears. She was born in the year 1928 in Madras Presidency. She survived in the cinema field for thirty years and this is a great record too. Raavu Balasaraswathi is holding the record of the first Telugu female Playback dinger. HMV Company got her voice, at her age of six. She began to act in the cinemas, right from her 6th age. Gradually she got a good place in the cinema industry, by doing varieties of characters. In the year 1943, she sang for Kamala Kotnis, in the film Bhagya Lakshmi.

The film was produced by Chitoor Nagayya. After few years, she minimized her acting and concentrated only on singing. She rendered her sweet voice to many of the yesteryear heroines. She is the lady who sang in almost all the genres. People say that, lullabies in her voice are really awesome to hear. Her sweet voice mesmerized many yesteryear people. Neela Vanna Kanna Vaada in the Mangayar Thilagam, Tamil movie is really awesome to hear, even now. She sang with the legendary singers of Indian cinema such as T.M.S, Seerkazhi Chidhambaram, Ghantasala, A.M. Rajah and many more people. She is surviving with her grandson in Hyderabad.