P. Susheela

                                         Present – 1951 

                                 Hindi , Marathi , Tamil , Telugu ,
                                         Malayalam , Kannada,
                                         Bengali, Oriya , Tulu ,
                                            Sanskrit , Sinhalses

                Pulapaka susheela (born gregorian calendar month thirteen, 1935 in andhra pradesh) is an indian playback singer. a recipient of five national awards and diverse state awards, susheela is wide acclaimed as a singer and is renowned for her honeyed vocal performances for thousands of film songs across south indian languages. she is additionally thought-about to be one among the made voiced singers whose pronunciation of the syllables to be additional clear and precise in any of the languages she sung. during a career spanning over four decades, she has recorded varied songs in varied indian languages together with telugu, tamil, malayalam, kannada, hindi, bengali, oriya, sanskrit, tulu, badaga. she has additionally sung for sinhalese films.

Life

                 She is that the girl of pulapaka mukunda rao a number one advocate in vizianagaram, vizianagaram district, andhra pradesh state, india. noted banker pulapaka seethapathi rao, director of banking concern of hyderabad, is her father's younger brother. she is married to mohan rao; they need a son named jayakrishna and 2 granddaughters named jayashree and subashree. her in-law, sandhya jayakrishna, may be a singer who debuted with a. r. rahman in iruvar.

P. Susheela Trust : 2008

                     The p susheela trust, shaped in 2008, features a monthly pension payment theme and many musicians in want square measure being benefited through it. on each gregorian calendar month thirteen there would be a musical concert throughout that a senior creative person (s) chosen by a panel is bestowed with the life action awards and therefore the p susheela trust award. the proceedings of the concert would go towards the trust maintenance.

                   The life action awards up to now has been bestowed upon t. m. soundararajan and p. b. srinivas. the recipients of the trust’s awards up to now square measure s. janaki, s. p. balasubramaniam and k. j. yesudas.

Awards And Recognition

2008 : Padma bhushan by the govt of republic of india 

2005 : Raghupathi venkaiah award for lifespan accomplishment in telugu cinema.

Jury swaralaya yesudas award for outstanding performance in music.

2006 : Life time accomplishment award by the film fare

2011 : Devarajan sangeetha award.