Singer Kalyani Menon passes away at 80

The last rites and cremation would take place in the city’s Besant Nagar on Tuesday afternoon.

Kalyani Menon began her career in singing in the 1970s as a classical singer. Menon’s famous songs with noted singer K J Yesudas in Malayalam include “Rithubheda Kalpana Charutha Nalkiya” from the 1983 movie Mangalam Nerunnu and “Pavanarachezhuthunnu Kolangalennum” from Mohanlal-starrer Vietnam Colony released in the year 1992.

Born in Ernakulam, Kalyani started singing at the age of five in the “Navaratri sangeeth utsav” organised in the famous TDM hall in Chennai. She began her career as a playback singer by singing in Thoppil Bhasi directed Malayalam movie Abala.

Besides Malayalam, she has sung in several Tamil movies, for top musicians Ilaiyaraaja and AR Rahman.