Sistla Janaki (born 23 April 1938) is an Indian playback singer and occasional music composer. She is widely referred to as Janaki Amma and "Nightingale of India" (or "Nightingale of South"). She is one of the greatest playback singers in the history of Indian music. She has recorded over 48,000 songs in films, albums, television and radio, which includes solos, duets, chorus and title tracks in 20 Indian languages, including Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi, Sanskrit, Odia, Tulu, Urdu, Punjabi, Badaga, Bengali, Konkani, as well as in foreign languages such as English, Japanese, German and Sinhala. She is one of the most versatile singers in India and has an exceptional vocal range. The language in which she sang the most songs in her career was Kannada, followed by Malayalam. She is widely acclaimed as the "Queen of Expression and Modulation in any Language with Nativity".
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23 April 1938 (age 87) Pallapatla, Repalle village, in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh
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Zodiac | Taurus |
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