Bombay Jayashri

                 Present (1982) 
Hindi , Telugu , Tamil , Kannada




                    Jayashri ramnath (popularly called bombay jayashri) is associate in nursing indian carnatic music vocalizer and music musician. she could be a adherent of string creative person lalgudi jayaraman.

                   Jayashri is one amongst the leading playback singers of tamil cinema and has worked with variety of composers as well as harris jayaraj, ilaiyaraaja, a. r. rahman, vidyasagar and yuvan shankar raja. she is presently appointed for best original song at the eighty fifth academy awards for the song "pi's lullaby" from lifetime of pi.

Life

                  Jayashri was born in kolkata, into a family of music connoisseurs and musicians. whereas growing up in bombay, she started coaching in carnatic music underneath the steerage of her folks seetha and n. n. subramaniam. soon, she went on to be told with t. r. balamani, and trained underneath her for a amount of ten years. jayashri was conjointly initiated into hindustani music and trained underneath mahavir jaipurvale and ajay pohankar for concerning six years. once she affected to urban center, she came underneath the steerage and mentorship of her guru lalgudi jayaraman. she conjointly learnt the veena from g. n. dhandapani iyer. jayashri incorporates abachel or of commerce degree from r.a. podar school, mumbai. she conjointly incorporates a credential in music from gandharva mahavidyalaya, new delhi.

        She married ramnath in 1996. she features a son named amrit.

Film Playback Singing

                   Jayashri has sung many film songs for movies underneath eminent music administrators like m. s. viswanathan, ilayaraja, a. r. rahman, harris jayaraj, dhina, shankar-ehsaan-loy, hariharan - leslie lewis. her 1st song was for ilayaraja. she shot to fame once singing the classical duet song "narumugaye" for the film iruvar along sideunnikrishnan and composed by a. r. rahman. her alternative playback career lightness song was "vaseegara" for the film minnale in 2001, composed by harris jayaraj.

Awards

Pending: nomintated for academy award for best original song (oscar) for pi's lullaby from life of pi. 

“Nada ratna” award from nada sudha, velachery, 2011

Honorary doctorate - degree of doctor of letters (honoris causa), awarded by mother theresa women's university, kodaikkanal, october 2009

"Sangeetha saraswathi" from the south indian cultural association (sica), during its golden jubilee year, 2009.

"Sangeetha kalasarathy" award from the vanamamalai mutt pontiff kalian ramanuja swamigal on behalf of sri parthasarathy swami sabha, chennai, 2007.

Tamil nadu state film award for best female playback singer in 2005.

"Kalaimamani virudhu" from the government of tamil nadu, 2007.

"Shanmukha sangeetha shiromani" from shanmukhananda sabha, bombay, 2006.

"M s subbulakshmi puraskar" from vishaka music academy, vishakapatnam. conferred by shri nedunuri krishnamurthy, 2006.

Received the prestigious 'sangeetha choodamani award' from dr. a c muthiah from sri krishna gana sabha, chennai in the presence of her guru lalgudi jayaraman, 2005 

Conferred "atma vanishri" from poojya shri shantananda swami of the temple of fine arts at varanasi, in the presence tabla maestro, pt. kishan maharaj, 2003

'Mani makudam' by rajalakshmi fine arts, coimbatore, 2002.

Received the 'kalki award' from cine director k balachander, on behalf of the kalki krishnamoorthy trust, 2002.

Filmfare award for the song 'vaseegara' from the movie minnale, 2002.

'Naadabhooshanam' by shanmukhananda sangeetha sabha, new delhi, 2001.

'Asthana vidhushi' of the shringeri mutt, 2001.

conferred the title of 'isai peroli' by dr. p chidambaram, union minister of finance, on behalf of the karthik fine arts, in the presence of music maestro balamurali krishna, 1997.

"Yuvakala bharati" conferred by bharat kalachar, chennai, 1992.