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L. R. Eswari
Background information
Birth name	Lourde-Mary Rajeswari
Born	(1939-12-08) 8 December 1939 (age 85) Madras, Madras Presidency, British India
Genres	Playback singing, Carnatic music
Occupation	Singer
Instrument	Vocalist
Years active	1950s–present

Lourde-Mary Rajeswari, better known as L. R. Eswari, is an Indian playback singer who has sung many songs in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi, Tulu and English. She was awarded with the Kalaimamani, an award for arts and culture in Tamil Nadu, for her contributions to the film industry.

Career

She sang under the direction of famous composers like M. S. Viswanathan, T.K. Ramamoorthy, K. V. Mahadevan, Veda, V. Kumar, Shankar-Ganesh, G. K. Venkatesh and Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan. Her voice was considered to be suited for peppy numbers in the movies.

She has also recorded many devotional albums in praise of the Goddess Amman. She sang Christmas songs like "Varuvai Varuvai" and "Deivam Thantha Divya Kumaaran". She has won the Kalaimamani Award and other state awards.

P. Susheela and she sang with Unadhu Malar, Chiththira Poovizhi, Ninaithaal Sirippu, and Thoodhu Sella. She sang a duet "Gudilona Naa Swamy Koluvai Unnadu" with S. Janaki in the Telugu movie Idalokam, with music by Chakravarthy. She rendered several duets with S. Janaki in Kannada movies as well.

She sang various duets with Ghantasala, in the Telugu doyen in his own music direction in the Telugu movie Pandava Vana Vaasam, and in K. V. Mahadevan's music direction in Prema Nagar, 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. Rajah, Seerkazhi Govindarajan, Malaysia Vasudevan, and Jayachandran. She also sang duets with female singers, most notably with P. Suseela, S. Janaki, Vani Jayaram, K. Jamuna Rani, M. S. Rajeswari and Soolamangalam Rajalakshmi.

She sang "Kanda kanmaniye ammana araginiye o raja", a Kannada song for the movie "Balanagamma" in the early 1960s.

Re-entry

After a long break, she made her re-entry through a rocky peppy Tamil song, "Kalasala Kalasala", in the 2011 movie Osthe, starring Silambarasan. She sang the song "Naa Poondamallida" in the film Thadaiyara Thaakka in the following year. She has also recently sang a Kannada song for the movie Victory, named "Yakka Nin Magalu Nanage", with Kailash Kher. In 2013, she sang a duet song called "Thagadu Thagadu" along with T. Rajendar in the movie Arya Surya. In 2014, she sang the song "Jaipuril Jaipuril" in the movie Athithi, with music by Bharadwaj. In 2020, she sung a song for the film Mookuthi Amman named "Aadi Kuthu".

Notable songs

Tamil songs

Telugu songs

Malayalam songs

She had sung in around 200 Malayalam films.

Kannada songs

Onscreen appearances

• Thillalangadi (2010) as herself
• Mookuthi Amman (2020) as herself

References

1. "Singer L.R. Eswari felicitated". The Hindu. 10 December 2007. Archived from the original on 12 December 2007. Retrieved 17 January 2010.
2. "Aadavaralaam Aada Varalaam,389'th track by Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan". RedMux. Retrieved 31 July 2004.

External links

• L. R. Eswari at IMDb
• The Titillating Voices of Two Tamil Playback Singers in Movie minutes

• 1939 births
• Living people
• Indian women playback singers
• Singers from Chennai
• Kannada playback singers
• Tamil playback singers
• Malayalam playback singers
• Telugu playback singers
• Indian Roman Catholics
• 20th-century Indian singers
• 20th-century Indian women singers
• Women musicians from Tamil Nadu