Charulatha YouTube channel has over 50,000 subscribers and 7 million views, continuing to educate and entertain music lovers world on the aesthetics of Karnatik music. A brilliant artist-academic, Charulatha completed her PhD in 2019 from the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University in Australia on synergies between Karnatik vocal music and 17th century Italian opera. One of the frontline scholars in her field, in 2020 she founded the perinatal mental health and wellbeing initiative involving lullaby singing and songwriting among migrant and refugee mothers and midwives – “Sing to Connect“. She completed a 2-year post-doctoral research fellowship at the University of Queensland in 2022 on human flourishing and music. Charulatha is currently on the faculty at the University of Tasmania, Hobart and is Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, Canberra. With years of teaching experience across Universities in Australia designing and lecturing courses on music and health/music education/ethnomusicology, she is an award-winning educator. Charulatha recently delivered an invited keynote address at the prestigious Carnegie Hall Lullaby Project Convention (June 1-3, 2023) on her funded research on music in health settings.

A highly acclaimed film playback singer, Charulatha continues to sing for top-tier music directors and producers in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi. Some of the hit songs include En Uchi Mandaila (Vettaikaran, starring Vijay in music of Vijay Antony); Chillax (in Velayudham, starring Vijay in music of Vijay Antony); Theeye Theeye (in Maatraan, starring Suriya in music of Harris Jayaraj); Kannukkul pothivaipen (in Thirumanan enum nikkah, starring Nazriya in music of Ghibran); Sada Nannu (National award winning Mahanati film in Telugu and Tamil in music of Mickey J Meyer); self-tuned Tamizh pasuram in Chennai Express (Hindi, Bollywood) with Deepika Padukone in music direction of Vishal-Shekhar.

Charulatha Mani may be contacted at clmtambura@gmail.com or +61422130711 (WhatsApp) for concert bookings.