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Chithra is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Lata Mangeshkar. Those roots explain a lot about how Chithra arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Monty Sharma, Raju Singh, Madan Mohan, Ritu Pathak and Suzzane D'mello, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Asha Bhosle and Herbie Hancock, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 11 connections around Chithra, reaching back through Lata Mangeshkar and forward to Asha Bhosle. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra is an Indian playback singer and Carnatic musician. In a career spanning around five decades, she has recorded over 25,000 songs in various Indian languages such as Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, Odia, Bengali, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Awadhi, Marathi, Tulu, Badaga, Braj, Banjara, Urdu, Assamese, Gujarati, Manipuri and Sanskrit, as well as foreign languages such as Malay, Latin, Arabic, Sinhalese, English and French.
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Chithra connections
Chithra grew out of Lata Mangeshkar, shares an orbit with Monty Sharma, Raju Singh, Madan Mohan and Ritu Pathak, went on to shape Asha Bhosle and Herbie Hancock. 11 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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