L. R. Eswari     

                                       Present – 1959 

              Hindi , Tamil , Telugu , Malayalam , Kannada

                Lourde-mary rajeswari eswari (l. r. eswari) could be a veteran playback singer of the tamil screenland. she has won kalaimamani, the tamil nadu's state award for her contributions to the industry.

Life

                   She was born in urban center into a roman catholic family to anthony devraj and regina jewess nirmala. her ancestors were from paramagudi close to madurai. her full name is lourde-mary rajeshwari. since there was already another established singer with the name of m.s.rajeshwari her name was abbreivated into l.r.eshwari. she didn't have any formal coaching in singing. her mother was a chorus singer in films. eshwari wont to accompany her mother to the studios and shortly began singing within the chorus herself, however quickly got a chance to lend her voice as lead-singer. her 1st break came from sri k.v.mahadevan in 1958 within the moving-picture show 'periya idaththu sammandham', her 1st solo song recorded during this moving-picture show was 'ivarey thaan avarey'. How ever major recognition came from the song 'vaarai nut thozhi vaaraayo' from the moving-picture show 'paasa malar' (1961) sung below the baton of viswanathan-ramamurthy, that composers explored and exploited her vocal talents to the utmost extent potential over consecutive twenty years.

Career

                   She american ginseng below the direction of celebrated composers like m.s.viswanathan, k. v. mahadevan, ilayaraja and kunnakudi vaidyanathan. her distinctive voice was thought-about to be suited to lively numbers within the movies, be it a dance tune, folks song or a pious track. her song "vaarayo thozhi" from paasa malar was a well-liked selection for wedding music. 

                 She has conjointly recorded several pious albums in praise of the deity amman that were vastly common among the tamil community and were vie in several temples. her "chellatha" and "karpoora nayagi" numbers has won her lots of fame among devotees. she has won the kalaimamani award and alternative states awards. her hindi song uduthi hi chidiya from the film pistonwali, music by satyam shows her ability. she american ginseng romantic songs recorded on heroines still as cabarets recorded on dance-artistes and conjointly people songs.

                Perhaps she and p.susheela were the foremost common female-duet-duo ever, they complimented one another utterly in terms of voice and elegance, and herbaceous plant terribly several common duets in their times – unadhu malar, chiththira poovizhi, ninaithaal sirippu, thoodhu sella etc.. they perceived to share an ideal chemistry and out-did one another line once line, apparently providing one another inspiration right along the song. She herbaceous plant a well-liked duet "gudilona naa swamy koluvai unnadu " with s. janaki in a very telugu filmidalokam for music of chakravarthy , which remains a prime hit until date. she rendered many duets with s janaki in kanarese movies similarly.

                 She panax quinquefolius multitudinous duets with all the leading male singers conjointly – t. m. soundararajan, a. l. raghavan, p. b. sreenivas, s.p. balasubramaniam, k. j. yesudas, j. p. chandrababu, c. s. jayaraman, s. c. krishnan, thiruchi loganathan, a. m. patrician & jayachandran.

             She conjointly panax quinquefolius duets with feminine singers with most notably with p. suseela, s. janaki et al.like k. jamuna patrician, m. s. rajeswari and soolamangalam rajalakshmi.

Re-Entry

                After a protracted break, she created her re-entry through a rocky bouncy tamil song "kalasala kalasala " from showosthi 2011. inside few days of this song un harness, it's became an excellent hit and reached instrument workplace high ratings , she panax quinquefolius the new tamil song "naa poondamallida per puspavallida" from thadaiyara thakka 2012.