Anitha Shaiq, often credited as Anitha. S is an Indian playback singer, Sufi singer and music composer. She performs Indian classical, sufi, Ghazal, folk and pop music, having sung in Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Oriya, Punjabi, and Tamil languages. In her 18 years in the film industry, she has recorded songs for films in 12 different languages.
Early life Anitha Shaiq was born to Sirajuniza Begum, a secondary school music teacher, and Sheikh Ebrahim. She graduated from the Government College for Women, majoring in music. She has studied Hindustani, Sufi, Carnatic, and Western music.
Career
Composing Shaiq composed the song "Melake Ponnal" for the film Crossroad directed by Lenin Rajendran.
Playback singing Shaiq began her play back singing in 2007 with the hit song of that year composed by Sree. Vidyasagar. She has sung for many Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi and Kannada movies.
Musical albums
"Satrangee" is composed and sung by Anitha Shaiq, while it was produced by East Coast.The album consists of seven tracks written by legends like, Meera, Mirza Ghalib, Bulleh Shah, Amir Khusrow etc..The album was launched by the famous Indian Sufi singer Kailash Kher on 20 January 2015.
Live performances
Anitha has performed live concerts all over India, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Europe.
Discography
Song Movie Music director Language year O mama Rock n Roll Vidyasagar Malayalam 2007 Thumbi Thumbi Parunthu Alex paul Malayalam 2008 Sarigamapa Twenty Twenty Berney Ignatious Malayalam 2008 Minnaminnikkoottam minnaminnikkoottam Bijibal Malayalam 2008 Rajakumari lollipop Alex paul Malayalam 2008 Ekanda chandrike 2 harihar nagar Alex paul Malayalam 2009 Adavukal 2 harihar nagar alexpaul Malayalam 2009 Kozhy chingara Body Guard ouseppachan Malayalam 2009 Maama maama Simhakutty raghavendra Malayalam 2009 Pathalle pathalle Ringtone shaan Malayalam 2010 Manassin vaathi Killaadi keeravaani Malayalam 2010 Mazha mazha Killaadi keeravaani Malayalam 2010 Panchasaara Black&white kudumbam Alex paul Malayalam 2010 Dhak dhak Alexander the great M G Sreekumar Malayalam 2010 Ola ola In ghost house inn Alex paul Malayalam 2011 Miya miya In ghost house inn Alexpaul Malayalam 2011 Laddu laddu Aarvam Rony raphel Tamil 2011 Annakkili Kai Ishaan Dev Tamil 2011 Theyyare Varan Mani sharma Malayalam 2011 Pathinettin Holidays Alex paul Malayalam 2011 Noda beda Kalla malla sulla Alex paul Kannada 2011 Nath nath Badrinath Keeravaani Malayalam 2011 Thuppa thuppa Kalla malla sulla Alex paul Kannada 2011 Odu paampe Kochi to kodambakkam Thaman Malayalam 2011 Kaadhaloru Kaandharvan Alex paul Tamil 2012 House full Housefull Sejo jone Malayalam 2013 Kanalu njaan Idiots Nandhu kartha Malayalam 2013 Raavoru Rabecca Uthupp Ratheesh vega Malayalam 2013 Kannaayiram Solar Swapnam Jayan Malayalam 2014 konjum ballyamalle little superman 3D mohan sitara Malayalam 2014 Arabean version Ayne rahulraj Malayalam 2015 to pain begaani albumganesh prasad oriya2016 meree jaan ekkadiki potavu chinnavada sekhar chandra Telugu 2016appangalUsthad hotel||gopisunder||Tamil||2016|-thakiladi melam viswaasapoorvam manzoor ramesh narayan Malayalam 2017 Kettu marannoru match box bijipal Malayalam 2017 Melakey cross road anitha shaiq Malayalam 2017 kattukkul vettai thulamalex premnath Tamil2018 khwajaa jee kabeerinte divasangalMalayalam2019Rasa na otha en kadhaleTamil2025
Awards and honours
Anitha received JESSEY Awards, Lions Club Musical Award, and GMMA Award and was nominated for the "Best singer" in the Asianet Film Awards.
References
External links https://web.archive.org/web/20150203125329/http://www.kaumudi.com/innerpage1.php?newsid=60397
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