P. Leela

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P. Leela
P. Leela in the late 1940s
Background information
Birth name	Porayath Leela
Born	(1934-05-19)19 May 1934 Chittur, Palakkad, British India
Died	31 October 2005(2005-10-31) (aged 71) Chennai, India
Genres	Indian classical music and playback singing
Occupation	Singer
Instrument	Vocalist
Years active	1948–2005

Porayath Leela (19 May 1934 – 31 October 2005) was an Indian playback singer, Carnatic vocalist, and a music director.^[1] She has recorded more than 5,000 songs in various Indian languages including Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, Bengali, Sanskrit, Odia, Gujarati, Marati. and also Sinhale. She is also known for her extensive history of collaboration in the songs of composers v.Dakshinamoorthy, MS Baburaj, G Devarajan, ghantasala, MS Viswanathan, K. Raghavan, Br Lakshmanan, LPR Varma, BA chithambara athletes, AT ummer, MK Arjun, Johnson, ouseppachan, ilaiyaraja, and with the playback singers KJ Yesudas and Ghantalasa, over the years.^[2] Leela is known for her sweet and melodious voice that she named Ganamani. She was awarded Padma Bhushan in 2006.^[3] She made her debut as a playback singer in the 1948 Tamil film Kangkanam.