Sharada (born 25 January 1958), known as Kavita Krishnamurthy or Kavita Subramaniam, is an Indian playback and classical singer. She has recorded over 50,000 Songs in as many as 36 languages including Rajasthani, Bengali, Kannada, Hindi, Bhojpuri, Telugu, Odia, Marathi, English, Urdu, Tamil, Malayalam, Gujarati, Nepali, Assamese, Konkani and other languages. She is the recipient of four Filmfare Best Female Playback Singer Awards (winning consecutively during 1995–1997), and the Padmashri which she received in 2005. In 1999, she married noted violinist L. Subramaniam and resides in Bengaluru.Born as Sharada into a Tamil Iyer family in New Delhi to T.S. Krishnamurthy, an employee of the Education Ministry. She began her musical training at the insistence of her aunt, Protimma Bhattacharya who enrolled her to train under Suruma Basu, where she was taught Rabindra Sangeet. She began her formal training in Hindustani classical music under the guidance of Balram Puri, a classical singer.
