Sughandhisri K - Sughandhisri K is a multi-talented established vocal artist, songwriter, lyricist, music composer in Tamil with more than 3 decades of experience in the field of carnatic music. She started learning carnatic music at the age of 5 years from Angachi Mami, Palakkad, who started teaching her from varnam, skipping the abyasa ganam, seeing her musical talents. Her father Sri K.S. Krishna moorthi was a flautist, and she learned songs from her father too during her childhood days. Then she pursued learning from Smt. Shyamala Gopalakrishnan and Smt Janaki Venugopal from Palakkad who taught her manodharmam at the tender age. She learned from Sri. Srivanchiyam Mani Iyer, disciple of Sri Madurai G Mani Iyer, and she continued learning from Smt. S Neela of Salem, and later was fortunate to learn from Padmabhushan Sangeetha Kalanidhi Sri TV Gopalakrishnan guruji. She has secured several prizes in interschool and intercollegiate vocal Music competitions in Palakkad, Salem, Trichi, and Chennai, and has also secured irizes in instrumental music veena and guitar in Salem during her college days. She has been performing carnatic music concerts for the past several years in various places, including Thiruvaiyaru Thiagaraja Aradhana. She has also been performing online concerts in social medias in various Facebook pages and Youtube.

She has written Lyrics and composed several compositions on various deities and sadhgurus, including Mahaperiyava, Shirdisai, Sathya Sai, Raghavendra swamigal and other spiritual gurus.

She has her own YouTube channel. She has tuned and composed in various ragas, Thiruppugazh, Thiruppavai, Abirami Andhadhi, Soundaryalahari, apart from writing her own compositions, tuning, composing and singing her songs in her concerts and recordings.

She released an album with her sister K Lalitha in May 1990, reciting Kandhar Shashti Kavacham, tuned by her in 13 ragas, and devotional songs composed by her with her lyrics. This was recorded in Media Artist Studio and released by Audiofine Company and inaugurated by the legendary playback Singer Late Sri SP Balasubramaniam and playback Singer Smt Vani Jayaram.

Besides, she is a poet in Tamil and English and has published her poems in English in international publications with an outstanding poet award.

Sughandhisri is a postgraduate in commerce, MBA and a Certified Accounting Technician, from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India with around 3 decades of experience in Finance and IT Industry serving in various positions.

Biography, photograph, audio links, and lyrics provided by the composer.

Compositions:

1. ambigayai caraNaDaindAl - kalyANi
   
2. anEka aDiyAr - shanmugapriyA
3. >anushattil avadaritta - saraswati
   
4. bhAgyalakshmi sowbhAgya lakshmi - saraswati
5. candrasEkara jagat guru - candrakauns
6. durga dEvi dhukkanivarini - durga
7. ellai illA karuNai - kAmbhOji
   
8. En inda sOdanai periyava - tilak kamOd
   
9. guruve saraNam sad guruva saraNam - dEsh
10. kAmakOTi shankarA - AbhOgi
11. kAmakOTi shankarA - ranjani
    
12. mahAperiyava pAdam paNindEn - nATTai
    
13. murugan pErazhagan - misra sivaranjani
14. murugA unaiyE - mAyamALava gowLa
15. pAda darisanam - kalyANi
16. padamalar paNindiDa - valaci
    
17. puvi Alum bhuvaneswari - sudda dhanyAsi
18. rAghavendra - bhairavi
19. rAma nAmamE - mAND
20. saibaba sathya saibaba - kalyANi
21. sambO mahAdEva - shivashakti
    
22. saraswati sArade - shrI
    
23. sivAya namaste - nATTai
    
24. swAmimalai swAminAtha - hamsAnandi
25. tAmadam En dayApari - hamIr kalyANi
    
26. trisUladhAri - hamsAnandi
    
27. ulakiNukkOr tandayAi - mOhanam
    
28. valli manavAla - cArukEshi
29. veTrikku vittAgum - ranjani
30. vignavinAyagane saraNam - hindOLam
31. vinaiyAvum viraindODum - kharaharapriya
    
32. yAnai muganai - shanmugapriyA