Gayatri Asokan


Gayatri Asokan is an Indian playback singer who works mainly in Malayalam cinema. She started her playback career with the song "Deena Dayalo Rama" for the film Arayannangalude Veedu for music director Raveendran. "Enthe Nee Kanna" for Sasneham Sumithra won her the Kerala State Film Award for Best Singer in 2003.
Her other songs include "Chanjadi Adi" from Makalkku, "Thumbikkinnaram" from Naran and "Pularumo" from Ritu.
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Early and personal life

Gayatri was born at Thrissur, Kerala, as the daughter of Dr. P. U. Asokan and Dr. K. S. Sunidhy. She was educated at Presentation Convent School in Kozhikode and at Vimala College in Thrissur.
Gayatri was married to Dr. Sayij on 4th January 2005, but the couple later divorced. She was then married to sitar player Purbayan Chatterjee in 2016.

Career

Gayatri was first trained in Carnatic music by Sri Mangat Natesan and Sri Vamanan Namboodiri at Trichur. Later she started training in Hindustani music under Dr. Alka Deo Marulkar in Pune and later under Pandit Vinayaka Torvi in Bangalore.
She is also a Hindustani classical music singer, a Bhajan singer and has given Hindustani concerts and programs based on film songs abroad. She has sung 500 movie songs and has also sung and given music for a new album for the Art of Living foundation which was released in September 2006 by His Master's Voice worldwide. She recently sang for an album by Ilayaraja, Thiruvasagam, which was released by Sony Music.
Since 2017, Gayatri withdrew from film music industry and started focussing on gazals.

Other activities

Gayatri is a jury member for the hit reality shows like Super Star Global on Amrita TV, Sakalalavallabhan on Asianet, Top Singer 2 and Musical Wife on Flowers TV. She is now anchoring popular gazal show Khayal on MediaOne TV and Gandgarvasangeetham 2010 on Kairali TV. In 2019, she performed in Jashn-e-Rekhta, a three-day annual Urdu festival and in Urdu Heritage Festival, Delhi.

Film songs (partial)

2007

2015

SongFilmMusic director
Deena Dayalo RamaArayannangalude veeduRaveendran
Thamara NoolinaalMullavalliyum thenmaavumOuseppachan
Kannil Kashi ThumbaDreamsVidyasagar
Chanjadi AadiMakalkku-manjariRamesh Narayan
Enthe Nee KannaSasneham SumitraOuseppachan
Thumbi KinnaramNaranDeepak Dev
Kadhayile RajakumaranumKalyanaramanBerny-Ignatius
Chandrika RavilPhotographerJohnson
Rama hareSoothradharanRaveendran
MaakhamarDaivanamathilP.V.Mansoor
NassebullaDaivanamathilMammutti
Poovin Ethal CheppilOut of SyllabusBennet Veetraag
Enthe nee thannillaYes your HonourDeepak Dev
Parayu PrabhathamePranayakalamOuseppachan
Thirike NjanArabhikadhaBijibal
Nin Hridaya MounamFlashGopi Sunder
Kannin vaathilMullaVidhyasagar
PularumoRituRahul Raj
Puthu ManjupolDr. PatientBennet Veetraag
KinavilePranchiyettan and the SaintOuseppachan
Ninviral ThumbilBeautifulRatheesh Vegha
Imakalil ViriyumKoratty Pattanam Railway GateGayoz Johnson
ThullimajinAyalum njanum thammilOuseppachan
Sugandha NeeralaFridayRoby Abraham
Mazhakondu MathramSpiritShahabaz Aman
Varaveena Shruthi meettiSwaasamKannan Bhai
Mazhaneer5 Sundarikal Bijibal
Uppongela Godavari-Female VersionGodavariK.M. Radhha Krishnan
VarikomaleJilebiBijibal
Shivakara damarukaKochu Kochu SanthoshangalIlayaraja
Ghanashyama vrindaKochu Kochu SanthoshangalIlayaraja
NeermizhikonilGoaPremkumar vadakkara
Ariyathe ennil neeEe Mazhayil Anoop Sathyaraj

Albums

  1. Anahata- Art of Living
  2. Neeyum Nilavum- Manorama Music
  3. Thiruvasagam -Sony Music
  4. Vishudhi- Art of Living
  5. Sarveshwari- Art of Living
  6. Iniyennum _ East Coast
  7. Pranayathhin Ormakal
  8. Ghazals by Unnatural
  9. Palanivel
  10. Smaran – Art of Living
  11. Sankirtan – Art of Living
  12. Chants for workplaces – Kedar Pandit

Awards