{"id":17132,"date":"2016-09-24T05:39:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T05:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=17132"},"modified":"2016-09-24T05:39:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T05:39:16","slug":"janaki-stop-singing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/janaki-stop-singing\/","title":{"rendered":"Janaki to stop singing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">S Janaki the popular singer called as Gana Kokila wants to retire from singing.She wants to stop singing on the stage and functions also. She is one of the finest singers that the country has and a favorite singer for Maestro Ilaya Raja. Malayalam cinema gave S. Janaki many of the finest songs of her long career. It is perhaps therefore only appropriate that she is ending her career with a song for a Malayalam film.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI never planned that my last song would be in Malayalam; it just happened,\u201d Janaki told from her Hyderabad home. \u201cI had taken a decision to stop singing a few months back and then this Malayalam song came along for the film 10 Kalpanakal.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17134\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/S_Janaki.jpg\" alt=\"S_Janaki\" width=\"500\" height=\"291\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Janaki said she would no longer perform in stage shows. \u201cMy last programme was the SIIMA Awards in Singapore in July,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd the last live show I did was at Kozhikode before that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said she decided to call it a day because she felt she had sung enough songs in a career that began six decades ago. \u201cI have sung in so many different languages for so many years,\u201d she said. \u201cSo I felt it was time to end my career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You cannot imagine too many female voices sweeter than that of Janaki. Add to that the effortless ease with which that voices traverses through varied pitches and her flawless diction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">No non-Malayali singer has rendered with Malayalam songs with such correct pronunciation as Janaki. Little wonder, she is easily one of the most popular singers of all time in Malayalam.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17135\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/s.janaki.jpg\" alt=\"s.janaki\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Andhra-born singer came to Malayalam cinema during its golden period. In M.S. Baburaj, she found a composer who gave her the most melodious of compositions. Their combination was just as sweet as the one featuring Lata Mangeshkar and Madan Mohan in Hindi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cYes, some of my best songs were composed by Baburaj,\u201d she said. \u201cI also enjoyed singing for other composers lime, M.S. Viswanathan, V. Dakshinamoorthy, K. Raghavan, A.T. Ummer, Shyam and Johnson.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S Janaki the popular singer called as Gana Kokila wants to retire from singing.She wants to stop singing on the stage and functions also. She is one of the finest singers that the country has and a favorite singer for Maestro Ilaya Raja. Malayalam cinema gave S. 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