Usha Uthup,Studio Vibrations,Kolkata-West Bengal

Usha Uthup Iyer is an Indian pop, filmi, jazz, and playback singer who sang songs in the late 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

She also sang the title song for the show Sarabhai vs Sarabhai in its first season.

Personal life
Usha was born on either 7 November 1947 or 8 November 1947 into a Tamil Iyer family in Mumbai in 1947.Her father was Vaidyanath Someshwar Sami Iyer who hailed from Chennai, in Tamil Nadu.

She studied at St. Agnes High School, Byculla. When she was in school she was thrown out of music class because she didn’t fit in with a voice like hers. But her music teacher recognised that she had some music in her and would give her clappers or triangles to play. Even though she was not formally trained in music, she grew up in an atmosphere of music. Her parents used to listen to a wide range from Western classical to Hindustani and Carnatic including Kishori Amonkar and Bade Ghulam Ali Khan on radio and she used to join them. She used to enjoy listening to Radio Ceylon.

Her next door neighbour was S.M.A. Pathan, who was then the deputy commissioner of police. His daughter, Jamila, influenced Usha to learn Hindi and take up Indian classical music. This fusion approach helped her to pioneer her unique brand of Indian pop in the 1970s. She is married to Jani Chacko Uthup who is from Manarcaud Painumkal family of Kottayam, and was formerly married to the late Ramu. They have a daughter Anjali and a son Sunny, named after the song, “Sunny”. She is presently a resident of Kolkata, West Bengal.

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