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K.S. Chithra

K.S. Chithra is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Biddu Orchestra and Lata Mangeshkar. Those roots explain a lot about how K.S. Chithra arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Chitra, Karthik, Haricharan, S. Janaki and K J Yesudas, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Herbie Hancock and Asha Bhosle, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 19 connections around K.S. Chithra, reaching back through Biddu Orchestra and forward to Herbie Hancock. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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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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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
K.S. ChithraBiddu OrchestraLata MangeshkarHerbie HancockAsha BhosleChitraKarthikHaricharanS. JanakiK J YesudasNaresh IyerSrinivasSadhana Sargam

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K.S. Chithra connections

K.S. Chithra grew out of Biddu Orchestra and Lata Mangeshkar, shares an orbit with Chitra, Karthik, Haricharan and S. Janaki, went on to shape Herbie Hancock and Asha Bhosle. 19 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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