

By the early 60s, she had started working with many prominent music composers. Janaki sang her first Kannada song in 1957. Her solos and duets, with P B Srinivas, S P Balasubramanyam and Dr. S Janaki's highest number of songs are in Kannada. She picked a Malayalam lullaby "Amma Poovinum" from 10 Kalpanakal as her swansong of her 60-year singing career and retired on 28 October 2017 with a concert held at Mysuru. She sang film songs in 6 languages in her very first year. Subsequently, she performed in the Telugu film M.L.A.
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She started her career as a playback singer in the Tamil movie Vidhiyin Vilayattu in 1957. While in her twenties, Janaki moved to Chennai on the advice of her uncle, to work with Music composer R. Main article: List of songs recorded by S. Janaki can fluently converse and write in 5 Indian languages – Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi. They have two daughters, Varsha and Apsara. Their only son Murali Krishna resides in Hyderabad and his wife Uma Muralikrishna is a Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi dancer from Chennai. He encouraged her career and accompanied her during most of her recordings. However she never pursued any formal training in the classical music. She learnt the basics of music through a Nadaswaram vidwan Paidiswamy. She spent most of her childhood in Sircilla where she got her first on stage performance opportunity at the age of nine. Her father, Sreeramamurthy Sistla was an Ayurvedic doctor and teacher.

Janaki was born on 23 April in Pallapatla, Repalle Taluka, in Guntur, Madras Presidency, British India (now in Andhra Pradesh). However, under pressure from the film fraternity, she made a comeback for the Tamil film Pannadi in 2018. In October 2016, Janaki announced her retirement from singing for films and stage appearances. She has sung in almost all the genres of songs and has performed live on stages in more than 5000 concerts across the globe.

Rajkumar topped the charts across all the South Indian languages. In the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s her duets with P. Balasubrahmanyam and composer Ilaiyaraaja is most talked about. Widely acclaimed as one of the most versatile singers, her association with singer S. She is the recipient of an honorary doctorate from the University of Mysore, the Kalaimamani award from Government of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka Rajyotsava award from Government of Karnataka In 2013, she refused to accept Padma Bhushan, and pointed that it is too little and had come "too late" and that South Indian artists were not given their due recognition. She has won four National Film Awards and 33 different State Film Awards. Starting in 1957 with the Tamil film Vidhiyin Vilayattu, her career has spanned over six decades.
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She has recorded over 48,000 songs in films, albums, TV and Radio including solos, duets and chorus songs in 20 languages including Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Odia, Bengali, Marathi, Tulu, Urdu, Gujarati, Punjabi, Konkani, Assamese, Sindhi and also in languages such as English, Japanese, Arabic, German, and Sinhala, however the highest number of songs in her career were in Malayalam and Kannada. She is referred to respectfully as " Janaki Amma" (Mother Janaki) and is one of the greatest and best-known playback singers in India. Sistla Janaki (born 23 April 1938) is an Indian playback singer and occasional music-composer from Andhra Pradesh.
