List of Telugu songs recorded by K. S. Chithra

Then she went on recording songs in Telugu from 1986-1988 to Ilaiyaraaja, K. Chakravarthy, K. V. Mahadevan and Satyam, but she had her breakthrough in 1988 through the songs in the films Gharshana (Agni Natchathiram) and Geetanjali, which were commercially successful in the Telugu musical field. Her songs in Geetanjali, "O Priya Priya" and "Jallantha Kavvinta" were rage chartbusters and are remembered even till date. Ilaiyaraaja who generally prefers fresh voices chose Chithra as his regular singer and gave her many chances. Chithra sang in almost every film of Ilaiyaraaja then, for a record it was for the first time in Telugu Industry at 1980s that someother playback singer like Chithra sang all the songs in one film other then Janaki and Susheela. Her expressive renditions and distinct melodious tone became a major plus for film's success and brought her many chances in upcoming films. As Ilaiyaraaja began to use her voice regularly in his films, other music directors like Mahadevan, Sathyam, Chakravarthy and Raj-Koti began to use her voice. 1988 and 1989 began to see her raise in Telugu film industry. She recorded more than 100 songs in her initail years itself which showcased her raise.

With the influx of M. M. Keeravani, a new era with different music was introduced to TFI. Keeravani is considered as one of the main reasons for Chithra's raise in TFI. From his first film itself Chithra was featured in his songs with distinct and typical maturity in her voice. Her first song with Keeravani was from the film "Manasu Mamatha' and the song is "Madhumaasam". Later she recorded many successful songs which were commercial hits as well as some evergreen hits. She got her first ever "Nandi Award" for playback singing for the song "Kaliki Chilaka" from the film "Seetharamayya Gari Manavaraalu" which was also under his composition. She went on to become a regular singer for M. M. Keeravani, Raj-Koti and S. V. Krishna Reddy and recorded all the songs in one film. Mostly all her life-time hits in Telugu are composed by M. M. Keeravani. She was a sensation in Telugu musical industry and had the fame of recording all the songs in one film from 1990-1995 along with S.P.Balasubrahmanyam and Mano. North Indian Music directors like Bappi Lahari and Laxmikanth Pyarelal made sure that when they composed songs for Telugu films their choice of female singer was none other then Chithra. Vidyasagar, Hamsalekha, A.R.Rahman, S.A.Rajkumar, Manishrama, Madhavpeddi Suresh, Sri Komineni, Vandemataram Srinivas and many other music directors of 1990s chose Chithra has their first choice for recording female songs. From the late 1980s till the 1990s she has recorded so many hit female duets with P. Susheela, Vani Jayaram, S. P. Sailaja and Jikki in many films. Chitra is known for giving soul to lyrics in Telugu states. Although she belongs to Kerala, she is highly encouraged in Telugu states for her expressive renditions. She has sung a song "Venuvai Vachanu" from the film Matrudevobhava under M. M. Keeravani's composition (This song made her win third Nandi Award), which has turned into her life-time hit song where she sang with high expression and emotion. In spite of S.P.Sailaja, Sujatha, Swarnalatha taking over the songs in late late 1990s Chithra never saw a downfall, she had her own path and distinct way of success. She has won Nandi Awards for most number of times, out of which many songs were composed by Keravani. She had a record of winning nandi awards for successful times, i.e. she won it in a row for 4 times from 1990–1993.

One more song "Kallaloki Kallu Petti" composed by Koti from the film Nuvve Kavali was a huge chartbuster. It is known that, while recording this song Chitra really ended up crying, she has sung the song with huge emotion giving apt soul to the song. Any music director in 20s wished to record songs in her voice. She has become a legend by then and recorded maximum Telugu songs. Introduction of many singers didn't affect her path of raising into success. Her association with Devi Sri Prasad and Manisharma proved extremely successful resulting in many evergreen songs. Her song with DSp for the film Varsham, fetched her ninth Nandi Award and first filmfare award too. Later 20s gave her numerous songs with an irreplaceable position in the film industry. Later, from 2010s Chithra minimized her chances and chose to be selective in recording songs with influx of many new singers and shreya Ghoshal taking the lead, yet her journey was glorious with many evergreen and legendary compositions coming her way. Chithra attained a 'Legendary status' by the 2010s and has become an evergreen singer whose voice is compared to the legends and is usually told unmatchable by any other female singers to reproduce. Music directors like Devi Sri Prasad, S.S.Thaman, Mickey j Meyer, sai kartheek consider her as a legend and wish to record her voice in any special occasion and gave her many evergreen melodies. Her chartbuster song "Seethamma Vaakitlo" composed by Mickey J Meyer, fetched her 2nd filmfare award and yet one more evrgreen melody "gopikamma" from Mukunda fetched her 11nth Nandi award which made her stand beside the legend S.Janaki in winning maximum number of Nandi Awards in TFI. Her melodious hit song "Ee Premaki" composed by DSP made her grab her 3rd filmfare award, thus making her hold the record of winning maximum filmfare awards Telugu for female playback singing. Chithra yet continues to enthrall Telugu audience with her melodious voice now and then.

She has sung many evergreen songs in Telugu like "Ninnu Kori" from Gharshana,"Maa Perati Jaamchettu" from Pelli Sandadi, "Asalem Gurtukuradu" from Antahpuram, "Kannaule" from Bombay, "Ennalaku Gurtochana" from Varsham, "Sitamma Vakitlo" from Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu, "Gopikamma" from Mukunda and many other songs. As of now Chithra has won record number of times i.e.11 Nandi Awards, 10 for film songs and one for non-film song. She even has a record of winning maximum Filmfare awards for female playback singing in Telugu (She has won it 3 times).[1]

She has worked with so many composers in telugu like Sathyam, K. V. Mahadevan, Ilaiyaraaja, Ramesh Naidu, Chakravarthy, R. D. Burman, Laxmikant–Pyarelal, S. Rajeswara Rao, Bombay Ravi, Rajan–Nagendra, M. S. Viswanathan, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, M. M. Keeravani, Raj-Koti, Koti, Vandemataram Srinivas, Bappi Lahiri, Shankar–Ganesh, Hamsalekha, Anand–Milind, Raamlaxman, J. V. Raghavulu, Vidyasagar, A. R. Rahman, Deva, Madhavapeddi Suresh, S. V. Krishna Reddy, Gangai Amaran, Mani Sharma, S. A. Rajkumar, Mahesh Mahadevan, Sri Kommineni, Ramesh Vinayakam, Ramani Bharadwaj, Shiva Shankar, S.Vasu Rao, Shivaji Raja, S. P. Kodandapani, Rajendra Prasad, L. Vaidyanathan, Nadeem–Shravan, Devendran, Adithyan, Prasanna Saraj, Vamsy, Naveen - Jyothi, Manoj Gyan, Sirpy, M. M. Srilekha, Raj, Sandeep Chowta, K. Veeru, Krishna - Neeraj, Ramana Gogula, Eshwar, Agosh, Gurukiran, Devi Sri Prasad, R. P. Patnaik, K. M. Radha Krishnan, Sharreth, Harris Jayaraj, Yuvan Shankar Raja, S. Thaman, Mickey J. Meyer, Gopi Sundar, Ghantadi Krishna, Kamalakar, Murthy, Shanmukh, AB Murali, DG Gopinath, Suresh Peters, Bharani, T. Rajendar, G. V. Prakash Kumar, Kavi, MS Rupali, Anup Rubens, Chakri, Dhina, Valisha - Babji, Varikuppala Yadagiri, MS Madhukar, Srikanth Deva, Sai Sri Harsha, Chinna, Krishna Sai, SA Kudhas, Shashi Preetam, Jassie Gift, Singeetam Srinivasa Rao, Vijay Kurakula, Manikanth Kadri, R Anil, Jeevan Thomos, Achu Rajamani, Sai Karthik, Raghu Kunche, Swaraveenapani, Yogeshwar Sharma, Joshya Bhatla, Ram Narayan, Shravan Bharadwaj, Saketh, Sabu Varghese, etc......

This is a list of Telugu songs recorded by the Indian musician K. S. Chithra.