Chithra Ramakrishnan

Chithra Ramakrishnan
Chithra Ramakrishnan
Birth name	Chithra Ramakrishnan
Born	Tiruchirappalli, India
Genres	Carnatic music
Occupation(s)	Vocalist, Bharatanatyam dancer, Artistic Director of ShruthiUK , Director British Carnatic Choir and Founder-Director of the Annual World Music Conference, Advocate of Mental Health through Music
Website	ChithraRamakrishnan.com

Chithra Ramakrishnan is an Indian-born vocalist and Bharatanatyam dancer, currently residing in Birmingham, UK. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Ramakrishnan has founded ShruthiUK, a Solihull-based non-profit South Asian arts and culture organisation. She pioneered the British Carnatic Choir - the first of its kind in the country.^[1]^[2]^[3] She also organises the annual World Music Conference event which she co-founded in November 2017.^[4]

Ramakrishnan has also been the host of talk show Chat With Chithra, where she has interviewed prominent personalities that include Dr Paul Sabapathy CVO CBE, Amish Tripathi, Kala Ramnath Vittal Ramamurthy, Shubhendra Rao, Saskia Rao-de Haas, Shashank Subramanyam, Stephen Bryant and Julian Lloyd Webber^{[citation needed]}

As a vocalist, she mainly sings in the Carnatic music genre. She also sung in Tamil, Hindi and Sanskrit, releasing albums in these languages.

Background[edit]

Ramakrishnan is a native of Lalgudi and spent her childhood days in Chennai as a 10-year old and then to Iraq two years later with She has been living in the United Kingdom ever since her graduation from the Mangalore University, India^[5]

Ramakrishnan holds an MBA in Human Resources and a PhD in Management from the US.^[6]

Discography[edit]

List of albums by Ramakrishnan ^[7]
Release year	Album title	Label	Format	No. of tracks	Other info
2012	Om Namo Narayana	Kosmik	CD	11
2011	Aaradhana	Kosmik	CD	12	Compilation of Hindi bhajans
2010	Llamai Kadhal	Saregama-HMV	CD	6	Tamil film. Songs Kambanin and Adi Paduda Mapla. Music director Srikanth-Sridhar^[8]
30 January 2009	Rare Krithis	Times Music	CD	6	Album by B.R. Vijayalakshmi, Dr Chithra Ramakrishnan, and M.Vijayalakshmi
2008	Sangam Instrumental	Kosmik	CD	9
9 October 2007	Shabdh - Classical Fusion	Geethanjali	CD	10	Compilation of fusion songs in Sanskrit and Tamil

Awards and recognitions[edit]

2018 - Solihull Civic Honour ^[9]
2016 - Nominated for the British Indian Award in the "Arts and Culture Awareness" category^[10]^[11]

References[edit]

↑ "SHRUTHI UK officially launches the British Carnatic Choir". www.britishsouthindians.co.uk. Archived from the original on 15 September 2017. Retrieved 2017-09-15. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
↑ ABPL. "Launch of British Carnatic Choir..." www.asian-voice.com. Archived from the original on 9 August 2017. Retrieved 2017-09-15. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
↑ "Shruthi UK launches the first British Carnatic Choir - New Asian Post". www.newasianpost.com. Archived from the original on 15 September 2017. Retrieved 2017-09-15. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
↑ "World Music Conference launched at Midlands University". ITV News. Archived from the original on 24 September 2019. Retrieved 2019-09-26. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
↑ "Tradition Keepers - Indulge". Indulge. 2016-10-21. Archived from the original on 15 September 2017. Retrieved 2017-09-15. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
↑ "Music: Carnatic Vocal Concert- Thematic presentation on Lord Rama-Dr. Chithra Ramakrishnan - Nehru centre". www.nehrucentre.org.uk. Archived from the original on 15 September 2017. Retrieved 2017-09-15. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
↑ "Dr. Chithra Ramakrishnan on Apple Music". Apple Music. Archived from the original on 25 November 2017. Retrieved 2017-09-15. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
↑ "London Chithra Ramakrishnan on Hungama". Hungama.com. Archived from the original on 4 April 2021. Retrieved 2021-03-29. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
↑ Irwin, David (2018-11-14). "Civic honour for Solihull community champion". BirminghamLive. Archived from the original on 14 November 2018. Retrieved 2021-03-26. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
↑ "British Indian Awards 2016: The Winners Celebrate | British Asian Magazine". 2017-09-15. Archived from the original on 15 September 2017. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
↑ Saddique, Nabiyah (2016-07-08). "Recognising British Indians Across The Nation - National, News, Top Stories". The Asian Today Online. Archived from the original on 1 December 2020. Retrieved 2021-03-26. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)

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[1] "SHRUTHI UK officially launches the British Carnatic Choir". www.britishsouthindians.co.uk. Archived from the original on 15 September 2017. Retrieved 2017-09-15. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)

[2] ABPL. "Launch of British Carnatic Choir..." www.asian-voice.com. Archived from the original on 9 August 2017. Retrieved 2017-09-15. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)

[3] "Shruthi UK launches the first British Carnatic Choir - New Asian Post". www.newasianpost.com. Archived from the original on 15 September 2017. Retrieved 2017-09-15. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)

[4] "World Music Conference launched at Midlands University". ITV News. Archived from the original on 24 September 2019. Retrieved 2019-09-26. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)

[5] "Tradition Keepers - Indulge". Indulge. 2016-10-21. Archived from the original on 15 September 2017. Retrieved 2017-09-15. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)

[6] "Music: Carnatic Vocal Concert- Thematic presentation on Lord Rama-Dr. Chithra Ramakrishnan - Nehru centre". www.nehrucentre.org.uk. Archived from the original on 15 September 2017. Retrieved 2017-09-15. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)

[7] "Dr. Chithra Ramakrishnan on Apple Music". Apple Music. Archived from the original on 25 November 2017. Retrieved 2017-09-15. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)

[8] "London Chithra Ramakrishnan on Hungama". Hungama.com. Archived from the original on 4 April 2021. Retrieved 2021-03-29. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)

[9] Irwin, David (2018-11-14). "Civic honour for Solihull community champion". BirminghamLive. Archived from the original on 14 November 2018. Retrieved 2021-03-26. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)

[10] "British Indian Awards 2016: The Winners Celebrate | British Asian Magazine". 2017-09-15. Archived from the original on 15 September 2017. Retrieved 2021-03-26.

[11] Saddique, Nabiyah (2016-07-08). "Recognising British Indians Across The Nation - National, News, Top Stories". The Asian Today Online. Archived from the original on 1 December 2020. Retrieved 2021-03-26. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)

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