Chaitra Ambadipudi
Background information
Occupations	Playback singer
Years active	2004-present

Chaitra Ambadipudi is an Indian playback singer from Hyderabad, India. She predominantly sings for Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, and Hindi language movies.

Early life and childhood

Chaitra informally began learning music at the age of 10, where her parents Ramana Murthy and Padma Priya, although not professionally trained themselves, taught her what they observed from listening to music. The informal syllabus consisted of over 200 Indian film songs from the 1950s and 1960s, which are deeply rooted in Indian Classical Music. Eventually, Chaitra learnt Hindustani Classical Music from Smt. Geeta Hedge in Bangalore, India.

Career

In 2004, at the age of 12, Chaitra began her playback singing career by recording her first Telugu playback song, Toli Toliga, for the movie Andaru Dongale Dorikithe, composed by the late Sri. Chakri.

In 2005, Chaitra won the Paadalani Undi singing show that aired on MAA TV that was hosted by the late S P Balasubrahmanyam.

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