Surmukhi Raman (earlier called as Suchithra Raman), born on 15 September 1983 in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu is an Indian playback singer from Tamil Nadu. She was brought up in Pune, Maharashtra. She occasionally writes lyrics. She is one of the emerging playback singers in South India. She has done playback for more than 150 film songs in four languages including Tamil language, Telugu language, Malayalam and Kannada. In addition, she has recorded a number of devotionals. She has performed in numerous concerts in India and abroad.
Early life
Surmukhi Raman completed her primary education in
Pune,
Maharashtra and higher education at Vyasa Vidhyalaya Matric Higher Secondary School in
Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She studied at University of Madras. Her father S.V. Ramanan, who had been a semi classical singer in All India Radio,
Indore,
Madhya Pradesh.
Career
Singing career
Surmukhi's playback singing career started in 2007 and has spanned over 15years.
She started singing Light music shows at the age of 14. B.H.Abdul Hameed advised her to make her voice recorded in a cassette to distribute to the music directors.
She has sung the songs composed by all leading music directors in the film industry including
Ilayaraja, A.R. Rahman, Hariharan, Bharadwaj,
Vidhyasagar, Sharetth,
Vijay Antony, Deva,
Srikanth Deva, D. Imaan,
Colonial Cousins, Jeevaraja, Vijayshankar,
Taj Noor, Xavier,
Manikanth Kadri, Rajini, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Ganesh Raghavendra, Nallathambi, and Shyam Balakrishnan.
She has sung for more than 15 movies in Tamil and Telugu under the musical composition of
Ilayaraja.
Her famous hit songs include "Pothum Otha Sollu",
"Chinna Paya Vayasu",
and "Paruruvayaa".
Her popular song "Aandipatti Kanava Kathu" from the Tamil "film Dharamadurai garnered 26 million views on YouTube."
Also her another song "Peechey Peechey" from the movie
Aranmanai is featured as one of the "most popular Tamil songs from the best artists" in the Tamil section of the Emirates Entertainment (In-Flight) Magazine, October 2016.
She is also a live stage performer who has performed more than 2000 orchestras.
Devotional albums
Surmukhi Raman has been performing solo devotional Bhajan, semi classical shows in North India almost every year for past 10 years. She has sung more than 500 devotional songs, encouraged by Mr.A.C. Dinakar, one of the senior most musicians in the industry. Her famous devotional albums include
Siva Kavasam & Thirupallieluchi(2009),
Yoga Narasimhar (2015), Murugane Mal Murugane (2011),
Kanikai Thanthidum (2017) and
Mera Sairam (2019).
Voice trainer
Apart from playback singing, she is also appeared among the panel of Judges in the singing reality shows.
Official voice trainer for "Sun Singer" consecutively for 4 years.
Discography
According to popular online media musical sources, the discography of Surmukhi Raman includes.
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Sathyan Mahalingam, Priya |
Gana Ulaganathan |
Ramesh & Senthildass Velayutham |
Jaidev |
Velmurugan |
Asit, Senthildass Velayutham |
Bharadwaj |
Pushpavanam Kuppusamy |
Senthildass Velayutham |
Karthik, Bombay Jayashri, Savitha |
Prasanna, Sathyan Mahalingam |
Benny Dayal |
Anitha, Priya |
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Ponethaal |
Lesle Lewis |
Vijay Antony, Sangeetha Rajeshwaran, Suchitra |
Devi Sri Prasad |
Kumaran |
Sri Charan |
Balram |
Sriram Parthasarathy |
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Mukesh Mohamed |
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Karthik |
Karthik |
Naveen Madhav |
R. Prasanna |
Udit Narayan |
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Karthik, Senthildass Velayutham, Renuka |
RJ Balaji |
Haricharan |
M. L. R. Karthikeyan, Anitha, Srikanth Deva |
M. L. R. Karthikeyan, Malavika, Anjana Sowmya |
Harish Raghavendra |
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Tippu |
Vijay Prakash |
Manikanth Kadri |
K. K. Nishad |
P. G. Ragesh |
Bharadwaj, Mukesh Mohamed, Ananthu, M. L. R. Karthikeyan, Karpagam |
Bharadwaj, Mukesh Mohamed, Ananthu, M. L. R. Karthikeyan, Karpagam |
Srikanth Deva |
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Aalap Raju |
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Devi |
Senthildass Velayutham |
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Jayadev |
RanjithM. L. R. Karthikeyan, Senthil, Sam, Ramya, Deepa |
Ilayaraja, Rita Thyagarajan, Anitha |
Velmurugan |
Gangai Amaran, Senthildass Velayutham, Belliraj, Mahathi, Hemambika |
Vidyalakshmi, Rita Thyagarajan |
Prasanna |
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M.M. Monissha, M. M. Manasi |
Karthik |
Ranjith, Vijay Yesudas |
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M. L. R. Karthikeyan |
Vijay Prakash, Pooja, Manasi |
Velmurugan, Deepak |
Prabhu, N. M. Akthar |
Rita Thyagarajan |
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V V Prasanna, Senthildass Velayutham |
Mukesh Mohamed
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Suraj |
Sathya Prakash |
Senthildass Velayutham |
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Yazin Nizar |
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Kumaran |
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Sathyan Mahalingam |
Bharadwaj |
Bharadwaj |
Senthildass Velayutham, Sam, Pawan, Priya Himesh, Sri Varthini |
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D. Imaan |
Senthildass Velayutham |
Yazin Nizar |
Jagadish |
Devi Sri Prasad, Ranina Reddy, Anitha, Roshini |
Yazin Nizar, Ranina Reddy |
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Renjith Unni, Sannidhanandan |
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Television Title Songs
Theme musical composition
Surmukhi Raman composed the theme music for
Kanmani along with Sathyan Mahalingam and Regina.
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