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Chinmayi Sripaada is an Indian Playback Singer,Voice Actor, Television Presenter, Radio jockey and Entrepreneur. working mainly for the South Indian Film Industry.
Chinmayi hails from a musically rich family. Chinmayi was raised by her mother, T. Padmhasini, a singer and musicologist, taught her Carnatic music and Hindustani classical music. She traces her roots to Paramkudi, Ramanthappuram, on her maternal side. Chinmayi and her mother were deserted by her father when she was 1 year old. Chinmayi has steadfastly refused to stake claim to anything from her paternal side. After her birth and early childhood in Mumbai, Chinmayi relocated to Chennai, where she attended the Children’s Garden school until the age of 10. She was then enrolled at Hindu Senior Secondary School, Indira Nagar and went on to complete her school education through home study modules where she was partly home-schooled after her 10th standard.
Chinmayi received the CCRT Scholarship for Young Talent for Carnatic Music from the Government of India at 10. She won the gold medal from All India Radio for Ghazals in 2000 and the Silver for Hindustani Classical Music in 2002. She learned German as a language in the Max Mueller Bhavan in Chennai and completed certification courses from NIIT and SSI in web design. During her school life, she held jobs with both Sify and studentconcepts.org. Chinmayi currently holds a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology from the University of Madras. She is also a versatile dancer and mostly enjoys the Odissi form of dance. Apart from her mother tongue Tamil, she speaks Hindi, English, Telugu, Marathi, Malayalam, and German fluently.
She has since received critical acclaim for songs such as “Oru Dheivam Thantha Poove”, “Sahana”, “Vaarayo Vaarayo”, “Kilimanjaro”, “Sara Sara” and “Asku Laska”. Chinmayi as of date has to her credit over 1,000 songs in six different languages.[6]
Chinmayi turned a voice actor for the Tamil film ‘Sillunu Oru Kadhal’ (2006), speaking dubbing for actress ‘Bhumika Chawla’. Since then, she has dubbed for several lead actresses in Tamil films, including ‘Tamannaah Bhatia’, ‘Sameera Reddy’, ‘Samantha Ruth Prabhu’ and ‘Trisha Krishnan’. She has also provided her voice in dubbed Telugu films. She dubbed for the critically acclaimed fictional character Jessie who was in the Telugu version ‘Ye Maaya Chesave’ and was portrayed by Samantha, while being portrayed by ‘Amy Jackson’ in the Hindi version Ek Deewana Tha.
Chinmayi serves as the CEO of Blue Elephant, a translation services company she founded in August 2005. The company has ever since been the language service provider for various Multinational companies like Scope E Knowledge, Ford, Dell, Ashok Leyland, Reliance India, to name a few. She received an award from SAARC Chamber for Women Entrepreneurship for Excellence in a niche industry for Blue Elephant in 2010. In 2011, she became the first ever woman entrepreneur from Tamil Nadu to be selected for the prestigious FORTUNE/US State Department Global Women’s Mentoring Partnership Program.
