Hyderabad, February 4
Veteran playback singer Vani Jairam was found dead at her residence on February 4 in Chennai. The renowned singer Vani Jairam was 78 years old and reportedly was injured her head after she had a fall at her home in Nungambakkam, Chennai. The cause of death is yet to be known.
One of the immortal voices of the South Indian film industry, Vani Jayaram rendered songs in 19 languages. She was living at her Haddows Road home in Chennai. Her husband Jayaram passed away in 2018. Since then, she had been living alone.
The sudden demise of the legendary singer on Saturday. The passing of hugely popular singer Vani Jayaram has come as a shock to the Malayalam film industry as hers was a much-loved voice in the state, she having sung more than 600 songs in a career that took off in 1973. Vani, as she was popularly known, made her Malayalam debut in 1973 by recording the solo song ‘Sourayudhathil Vidarnnoru’ composed by Salil Chowdhary for the film ‘Swapnam’. Celebrities and Politicians took their condolence messages.
Born at Kalaivani in Vellore to a traditional Tamil Iyengar family of classical musicians, Jayaram was initiated into the world of music by Ranga Ramanuja Iyengar and later, Kadalur Srinivasa Iyengar, T.R. Balasubramanian, and R.S. Mani. Vani Jayaram won three National Awards and sang more than 10,000 songs in 19 languages, including in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, Gujarati, Odia, Marathi, Haryanvi, Assamese, Tulu and Bengali. She had won state government awards from Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, and Andhra Pradesh.
