S. P. Sailaja
Indian singer
Sripathi Panditaradhyula Sailaja is an Indian singer, voice artist and actress who had sung 5,000 songs in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi films. She had sung most of the songs for Illayaraja, K. Chakravarthy, Ramesh Naidu, K.V. Mahadevan, Chandrabose, Shankar-Ganesh and Gangai Amaran. She had won two Nandi Awards, Filmfare South and Kalasagar awards.
Television works
Sailaja has appeared as both an audition judge and a guest judge in several reality talent hunt shows such as Vijay TV's Airtel Super Singer, Airtel Super Singer Junior.
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