Chinmayi: The voice behind Bollywood beauties Hyderabad: Chinmayi Sripada, the girl behind Samantha's sweet voice in Ye Maya Chesave, has won a Nandi this year. Samantha's role was of a mature, sensible girl and Chinmayi's voice was well appreciated for the role.
She also has done dubbing for other movies such as Surya s/o Krishnan and has given the dubbing for actress Sameera Reddy in the Tamil version Varanam Aayiram as well. She has also dubbed for Trisha in Ye Maya's Tamil remake Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa.
The talented girl was appreciated for her natural voice modulation and tenor which suited both Sameera and Samantha. She is an Indian playback singer, singing predominantly in Tamil. She is also a voice actor in Tamil and Telugu films, and has worked as a television presenter and a radio jockey as well.
She is the founder and CEO of a translation services company called Blue Elephant. Incidentally, Chinmayi's mother T Padmahasini is also a singer and musicologist, from whom she learned Hindustani and Carnatic music.
Although she was born in Mumbai, she shifted to Chennai. She is also the recipient for the CCRT Scholarship for Young Talent for Carnatic Music from the Government of India at age 11. She won the gold medal from All India Radio for Ghazals in 2000 and the Silver for Hindustani Classical Music in 2002.
She has learned German as a language in the Max Mueller Bhavan in Chennai and completed certification courses from NIIT and SSI in web design. During her school life, she held jobs with both Sify and studentconcepts.org.
Chinmayi currently holds a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology from the University of Madras. Chinmayi is a polyglot; apart from Tamil and English, she speaks Telugu, Hindi and German fluently.
News Posted: 9 August, 2011
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