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Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra, often credited as K. S. Chithra or
simply Chithra, is an Indian playback singer and carnatic musician from
Kerala. Chithra also sings Indian classical, devotional, and popular
music. She has more than 25,000 recorded songs in various Indian
languages, including Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Hindi, Bengali,
Oriya, Punjabi, Gujarati, Tulu, Rajasthani, Urdu, Sanskrit, and Badaga,
as well as foreign languages such as Malay, Latin, Arabic, Sinhalese,
English and French.[citation needed] She is considered as the one among
the "First ladies" of India who was honoured by the President of India.

Chithra is a recipient of six National Film Awards (most by any female
singer in India), eight Filmfare Awards South and 36 different state
film awards. She has won all the four south Indian state film awards.
She was honored with India's civilian honor Padma Shri in 2005. She is
the first Indian woman who was honored by House of Commons, British
Parliament, United Kingdom in 1997. She is the only singer from India
who was honored by the Government of China at the Qinghai International
Music and Water Festival in 2009. She is conferred with highest honour
of Rotary International FOR THE SAKE OF HONOUR AWARD in 2001. she is the
only singer from South India who has received the MTV Video Music Award
– International Viewer's Choice at Metropolitan Opera House, New York,
United States in 2001.