Mahalakshmi

Mahalakshmi Iyer is an Indian playback singer known for her contributions to Hindi, Assamese and Tamil film music. She has also recorded songs in several other Indian languages, including Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, Odia, Gujarati and Kannada. Shortly after completing her graduation, she began her professional career by lending her voice to advertising jingles. Although she recorded her first song in 1997 for the unreleased film Dus with the composer trio Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy, her first officially released film song came in 1998 with A. R. Rahman in Dil Se... Over the years, she has recorded approximately 5,000 songs, working with many leading composers across the Indian film industry. Mahalakshmi was one of the lead vocalists in the song “Jai Ho” from the film Slumdog Millionaire. For this track, she shared the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture at the 52nd Grammy Awards held on 31 January 2010. The same song also received the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 81st Academy Awards. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahalak...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)