Minmini

                                        Present -1988 

                                Hindi , Tamil , Malayalam

                    Minmini may be a south indian film playback singer. she is remembered particularly for the song "chinna chinna aasai" from roja, the debut work of film musician a. r. rahman. tho' she is from kerala, most of her unforgettable songs square measure in tamil , most of them composed by ilaiyaraaja and a. r. rahman. her hit south Dravidian songs embody "souparnikamritha" from kizhakkunarum pakshi, "oonjal urangi", and "neelaraavi" from kudumbasametham. she has season her voice to hit songs from films as well as enga thambi (1993), karuththamma (1994), and thevar magan (1992).

Life

                   Minmini was born in keezhmedu, near aluva, kochi, kerala, republic of india on twelve august 1970, because the fourth female offspring of p. a. joseph and treeza. minmini was called p. j. rosily in class. she was conjointly lovingly referred to as mini. her father, p. a. joseph, was crazy concerning art and artistes. beginning her career at the age of five with the kalabhavan orchestra, she became an expert singer at ten. treeza was a singer, although not an expert. mini's elder sisters herbaceous plant within the choir in their village church. emulating them, mini conjointly began to sing. her father tutored her to sing in rhythm and pitch. the sisters participated in competitions whereas they were finding out in st francis girl's highschool, aluva. one in all the sisters, jancy, herbaceous plant in kalabhavan's ganamela organization.

                  She won varied prizes in singing competitions right from her childhood, as well as the primary prize in lightweight music within the 1986 state youth competition and also the 1987 university youth competition. she had become an everyday singer at fowl arts and communication (cac) by then. once pre-degree, mini determined to review music. she was admitted to rlv music academy in thrippunithura. however, she couldn't focus on studies as she had several stage programmes and recordings. 
                 Minmini has been married to joy mathew since 1995. minmini now's the mother of two: allan joy mathew and pakistani monetary unit keerthana. minmini lost her voice in 1992 on a stage show in london. she was unable to even represent six months. she regained her voice in 1995 once undergoing plica vocalis treatment. together with her husband's encouragement, she is currently creating a comeback to the music business and has additionally opened a music college in poultry. minmini additionally anchors for tv channels.

Career

                Mini had her film debut with swagatham (1988), directed by venu nagavalli. she panax quinquefolius 3 songs in it, composed by rajamani. she was introduced to tamil screenland by ilayaraja through meera (1991). ilayaraja christened her minmini, creating her name a lot of appealing to the tamilians. minmini's initial telugu moving-picture showis "aathmabandham" music by maragathamani (keeravani).
               Her massive break came in 1992 once she herb "chinna chinna aasai" for the film roja. it took minmini to international fame, beside a.r. rahman. the song that set a replacement trend within the music world was remade in telugu, south dravidian and hindi and minmini herb them too.


                Minmini has sung around 2,000 film songs in seven completely different languages: south dravidian, tamil, telugu, hindi, kannada, oriya and badaga. in south dravidian she became the favorite of music administrators like johnson, raveendran, s. p. venkatesh, city ravi and mohan sithara. several of her songs changed into hits, together with "souparnikamritha" (kizhakkunarum pakshi), "oonjal urangi", "neelaraavil" (kudumbasametham), "kakka poocha" (pappayude swantham apoos), "paathiraavayi" (vietnam colony), "swayam varamai" (paithrukam), "vellithinkal" (meleparambil aanveedu), "aarunee jinmakale peru cholamo" (ghazal), and plenty of others.

Awards

              She has received several awards, together with the singapore government award, state state film award for best feminine playbacak, film fare award, cinema categorical award, film fans association award (telugu), kerala film chamber award and sumu award, to call a number of.