shilpa317

Singer- Songwriter
Genre: Experimental Covers, Accoustic Covers, Experimental music, Pop

Early life:

On and Off relationship with Carnatic Classical music from a very young age.
Took an interest towards American and British music, and later started following music from across many regions and many genres.

Musical Career:

Started off singing demo tracks for music composers in the Tamil film industry.
Works on covers, original compositions and collaborations.

TV Series (Tamil):

- Puriyadha Pudhir- Title track for a TV Series (Raj TV) with the same name (2008)
Animated series:
- Biriken (Title Track)
- Sally Bollywood (Title Track)- Discovery Tamil
- Lion King 3- Disney Tamil
- Peter Pan- Disney Tamil
- Concho Bay (Animated Series) – Tamil
- Mickey & Donald have a laugh- Telugu

Feature Films:

- 'Vanakkam Chennai'- Marina (Tamil- 2012, composed by Girishh Gopalakrishnan)
- 'Hi- Theme'- Hi da (Tamil- 2013, composed by Vishal Chandrasekhar)

Short Films:

- Ullathin Varthaigal (Aktaa Moner Kothaa) – Oviyam (Tamil/Bengali- 2012)

Associated Acts:
- Strayfactory- Short & Sweet Festival- 'Maya from Madurai', directed by Pooja Balu, written by Naren Weiss, starring Venkatesh Harinathan, Ajay Ayyappan and Shilpa Natarajan
- Fete De La Musique 2013- With Krimson Blend @ Goethe Institut, Chennai
- Thedal- A Tamil single composed by Ramshanker S. and CINC. https://soundcloud.com/ramshanker/thedal
- GD Prasad (Maalai Neram- A cover, String of Shining Pearls, Yenakku Nee Sondhama, Shadow on your wall)
- StrayFactory (Experimental Theatre at Jaaga, Bangalore)
- StrayFactory (Ganga @ Rishikesh, Madras Meals- The Great Indian Blogologues)
- Banaras Shop Quartet (Ganga @ Rishikesh, The Hindu Metroplus Theatre Festival- 2012)
- Vandanam ( Pareshaan –A cover http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xiroJg3LgY)

Original compositions:

Shadow on your wall (English, 2012): Composed, Produced & Arranged by GD Prasad, Lyrics & Vocals by Shilpa Natarajan

Yenakku Nee Sondhama (Tamil, 2011): Produced & Arranged by GD Prasad, Lyrics by Varun Ram Iyer, Composed & Vocals by Shilpa Natarajan

String of Shining Pearls (Carnatic-Telugu, English, 2011): Composed, Produced & Arranged by GD Prasad, Lyrics (English) by Gauri Gupta, Vocals: Shilpa Natarajan (English), Sharanya Bharath (Carnatic)

Down the Hill (English, 2010): Produced & Arranged by Ronie Koran, Composed & Lyrics by Varun Ravindran, Vocals by Shilpa Natarajan

shilpa317’s tracks

• Bubblewrap by shilpa317
• Feather Sword by shilpa317
• Khadal Kondein by shilpa317
• Lean On Me by shilpa317
• Release Me by shilpa317
• Shadow On Your Wall by shilpa317
• Yenakku Nee by shilpa317