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Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra (born 27 July 1963) is an Indian playback singer and Carnatic musician. In a career spanning around five decades, she has recorded over 25,000 Songs in various Indian languages languages such as Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, Odia, Bengali, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Awadhi, Marathi, Tulu, Badaga, Braj, Banjara, Urdu, Assamese, Gujarati, Manipuri and Sanskrit,as well as foreign languages such as Malay, Latin, Arabic, Sinhalese, English and French. She is a recipient of multiple National Film Awards, including the prestigious Padma Bhushan. Her career spans over four decades, beginning with her introduction to the Malayalam film industry in the early 1980s, and she is known for her emotional depth, technical precision, and charitable work, especially through the Snehanandana Trust.