P.Susheela Hits

P. Susheela or Pulapaka Susheela is a legendary Indian playback singer.She is considered to be South Indian version of Lata Mangeshkar. She is famous for her voice.She has recorded several songs in many Indian languages including Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi, Bengali, Oriya, Sanskrit, Tulu, Paduga and also a Sri Lankan language, Sinhalese . Her career spanned for more than four decades.

Susheela was born in Vijayanagaram, Madras Presidency, in present day Andhra Pradesh State, India.

n 1950, music director Pendyala Nageswara Rao was looking for new talent and scouted for new singers at All India Radio. Of the five people referred, Susheela was selected and sang her first song, a duet with A. M. Raja - `Edhukku azhaithaai` for the movie.

Susheela made her entry when competition was intense. But her entry in 1952 outshone others and soon pushed all of them to the background. Right from 1955 she was very popular and almost all the movies had a song sung by her. It was the legendary Saluri Rajeswara Rao, who spruced up her voice culture and gave her challenging assignments especially involving veena in his music direction.

She rendered several memorable songs under the legend K. V. Mahadevan and under the expert baton of M. S. Viswanathan in all south Indian languages.

She has won the First national award presented to the Female Singer category in 1969 by Indian Govt.