Gayatri Asokan

Biography

Gayatri Asokan is an Indian playback singer who works mainly in Malayalam cinema. She started her playback career with the song "Deena Dayalo Rama" for the film Arayannangalude Veedu (2000) for music director Raveendran. "Enthe Nee Kanna" for Sasneham Sumithra (2004) won her the Kerala State Film Award for Best Singer in 2003.
Her other songs include "Chanjadi Adi" from Makalkku (2005), "Thumbikkinnaram" from Naran (2005) and "Pularumo" from Ritu (2009).

Early and personal life

Gayatri was born at Thrissur, Kerala, as the daughter of Dr. P. U. Asokan and Dr. K. S. Sunidhy. She was educated at Presentation Convent School in Kozhikode and at Vimala College in Thrissur.
Gayatri was married to Dr. Sayij on 4th January 2005, but the couple later divorced. She was then married to sitar player Purbayan Chatterjee in 2016.

Career

Gayatri was first trained in Carnatic music by Sri Mangat Natesan and Sri Vamanan Namboodiri at Trichur. Later she started training in Hindustani music under Dr. Alka Deo Marulkar in Pune and later under Pandit Vinayaka Torvi in Bangalore.
She is also a Hindustani classical music singer, a Bhajan singer and has given Hindustani concerts and programs based on film songs abroad. She has sung 500 movie songs and has also sung and given music for a new album for the Art of Living foundation which was released in September 2006 by His Master's Voice worldwide. She recently sang for an album by Ilayaraja, Thiruvasagam, which was released by Sony Music.
Since 2017, Gayatri withdrew from film music industry and started focussing on gazals.

Other activities

Gayatri is a jury member for the hit reality shows like Super Star Global on Amrita TV, Sakalalavallabhan on Asianet, Top Singer 2 and Musical Wife on Flowers TV. She is now anchoring popular gazal show Khayal on MediaOne TV and Gandgarvasangeetham 2010 on Kairali TV. In 2019, she performed in Jashn-e-Rekhta, a three-day annual Urdu festival and in Urdu Heritage Festival, Delhi.

Albums

Anahata- Art of Living
Neeyum Nilavum- Manorama Music
Thiruvasagam -Sony Music
Vishudhi- Art of Living
Sarveshwari- Art of Living
Iniyennum _ East Coast
Pranayathhin Ormakal
Ghazals by Unnatural
Palanivel
Smaran – Art of Living
Sankirtan – Art of Living
Chants for workplaces – Kedar Pandit