Anitha Shaiq

Biography

Anitha Shaiq, often credited as Anitha. S is an Indian playback singer, Sufi singer and music composer. She performs Indian classical, sufi, Ghazal, folk and pop music, having sung in Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Oriya, Punjabi, and Tamil languages. In her 18 years in the film industry, she has recorded songs for films in 12 different languages.

Early life

Anitha Shaiq was born to Sirajuniza Begum, a secondary school music teacher, and Sheikh Ebrahim. She graduated from the Government College for Women, majoring in music. She has studied Hindustani, Sufi, Carnatic, and Western music.

Composing

Shaiq composed the song "Melake Ponnal" for the film Crossroad directed by Lenin Rajendran.

Playback singing

Shaiq began her play back singing in 2007 with the hit song of that year composed by Sree. Vidyasagar. She has sung for many Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi and Kannada movies.

Musical albums

"Satrangee" is composed and sung by Anitha Shaiq, while it was produced by East Coast.The album consists of seven tracks written by legends like, Meera, Mirza Ghalib, Bulleh Shah, Amir Khusrow etc..The album was launched by the famous Indian Sufi singer Kailash Kher on 20 January 2015.

Live performances

Anitha has performed live concerts all over India, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Europe.

Awards and honours

Anitha received JESSEY Awards, Lions Club Musical Award, and GMMA Award and was nominated for the "Best singer" in the Asianet Film Awards.