Shilpa Natarajan


Shilpa Natarajan is an independent acoustic singer-songwriter and a playback singer and was a Music Presenter on Chennai Live 104.8FM, based in Chennai, India. In 2015 she performs with the Beef Sappad Trio. She is an ATCL diploma graduate in Western Classical Music.

Early life and education

As a child Natarajan attended school in Muscat. She later moved with her family to Chennai, where she attended Vidya Mandir in the neighbourhood of Mylapore and joined the school's Carnatic orchestra.
Natarajan had grounding in classical Carnatic music for close to two decades.Her first Guru was her mother Maheshwari Natarajan, followed by Vijayalakshmi Subramanian and Shuba Ganesan.
Natarajan is also a student of Western classical music.

Career

Natarajan used to work with a Corporate Group based in Chennai and worked on her music during the weekends.
Now she works with Chennai Live 104.8 FM as a music presenter of the 'morning show'.
Her first entry into the Tamil music industry was in 2008 when she participated on a contest TV Show, Airtel Super Singer- Season 1. While she did not make it to the finals, she was invited to be a guest performer along with a lot of others from the show.
Natarajan then sang a song for a Tamil television serial- 'Puriyadha Pudhir', on Raj TV.
She entered the Tamil playback industry in 2012 with a song for a feature film titled 'Marina'. The song which she was a part of,'Vanakkam Chennai', has received more than 2 million hits and Shilpa was invited to sing the song on Star Vijay's Super Singer.
She has sung for Disney Tamil and Nickelodeon and her voice can be heard as a singer, on both 'Nala' from Lion King and Ariel from 'Little Mermaid'.
She has collaborated with Vandana Srinivasan, a playback singer in Chennai and Prithvi Chandrasekar of Krimson blend on a cover of Amit Trivedi's 'Pareshaan' from Ishaqzaade.
Shilpa collaborates with Chennai's theatre company StrayFactory Entd. and has been a part of The Metroplus Theatre Festival and the Short + Sweet Festivals with Ganga at Rishikesh and Maya From Madurai.
Shilpa has been a part of Girishh Gopalakrishnan's Vidiyum Munn by singing, along with Susheela Raman and Ramshanker S., the song, 'Penne'.
She has also sung the title track, "Hi", for Vishal Chandrasekhar's 'Hi da' which is yet to release.
Natarajan began to write songs in 2011 and released her Tamil single, "Yenakku Nee Sondhama" which was produced by G.D. Prasad. Subsequently, she released an English single "Shadow On your Wall". In 2011, Shilpa collaborated with G.D. Prasad, on a bi-lingual song - "String of Shining Pearls"
In 2013, Natarajan worked with several independent musicians in Chennai and was a part of a Tamil single "Thedal", composed by Ramshanker S. That year she took part in The Hindu's Metroplus Theatre festival and 'The Fete De La Musique'.
Natarajan's next single "Dirty Little Secret", was premiered at The Metroplus Theatre Festival in August 2013, and at about that time she was featured on Zee Thamizh 's 'Isai Unplugged' show, along with a few other independent musicians, as part of a band called 'Untitled'.
In 2015, she was performing with a group called "The Beef Sapad Trio". In 2016 the group performed at a Beatles Tribute concert in Chennai.
In 2016 Natarajan performed with the Madras Musical Association choir. IN 2017 she released her debut EP, Bubblewrap in two languages. The EP included 5 tracks in English and 2 in Tamil, and was produced by Naveen Samson Benjamin. Bubblewrap features musicians including Joslin Julius, Hariprasad, Vijay B., Shravan Sridhar, Biggu Chandilya, Adithi Deborah and Varun Ram Iyer. The EP is a mix of Indie pop, world, Indie-folk and other genres with tinges of other genres like alternative, carnatic and swing mixed with the music. 'Yenakku Nee Sondhama' was featured on on Ashanti Omkar's on 19 March 2017. "Bubblewrap", the title track of the EP was featured on on Ashanti Omkar's on 26 March 2017.

Beef Sappad Trio

Beef Sappad Trio is a parody act from the city of Chennai. The act comprises Dr. Yohan Chacko, Sandeep John and Shilpa Natarajan. The act write parody songs based on current affairs and are strictly humorous.
While they have written and perform many songs, some of their YouTube-released tracks are , , and most recently .

Discography

SongYearAlbumComposerLanguageCredited asComments
Puriyadha Pudhir2008Puriyadha Pudhir UnknownTamilRaj TV Productions
Down the hill2010Varun RavindranEnglishsingle
Ullathin Varthaigal 2012OviyamVijayanarain RangarajanBengaliShort film
String of shining pearls2012GD PrasadEnglishSingle
Vanakkam Vaazhavaikkum Chennai2012MarinaGirishh GopalakrishnanTamil
Hi 2013Hi daVishal ChandrasekharTamil
Penne2013Vidiyum MunnGirishh GopalakrishnanTamilBacking vocals
Thedal2014Ramshanker SathyanarayananTamilSingle
Dehamannu2014oka rathrilo iddaru ammayiluGirishh GopalakrishnanTelugu
Vidaraani mounam2014oka rathrilo iddaru ammayiluGirishh GopalakrishnanTelugu
Fly by2016Vishal ChandrasekharTamil
Shoot the kuruvi2016Jil Jung jukVishal ChandrasekharTamilBacking vocals
2016TheriGV PrakashBackground VocalsRe recording
2016Enakku Innooru Peru IrukkuGV PrakashBackground VocalsRe recording
2016PencilGV PrakashBackground VocalsRe recording
Don't give up2016AvaladhigaramRamshanker SathyanarayananTamilSinger, Lyricistshort film
Vizhi moodinen2016Jerard FelixTamilsingle
Balle Vellaiya Theva2017Balle Vellaiya thevaDarbuka SivaTamil
Vandhene2017SimbaVishal ChandrasekharEnglish, Tamil
2017MupparimanamGV PrakashBackground VocalsRe recording
Feathersword2017BubblewrapShilpa NatarajanEnglishSinger, songwriterEP
Lean on me2017BubblewrapShilpa NatarajanEnglishSinger, songwriterEP
Release me2017BubblewrapShilpa NatarajanEnglishsinger, songwriterEP
Shadow on your wall2017BubblewrapGD PrasadEnglishSinger, LyricistEP
Bubblewrap2017BubblewrapShilpa NatarajanEnglishSinger, songwriterEP
Kadhal Kondene2017BubblewrapNaveen Samson Benjamin, Shilpa NatarajanTamilSinger, songwriterEP
Yenakku Nee Sondhama2017BubblewrapShilpa NatarajanTamilSinger, songwriterEP
Yevadura2017GruhamGirishh GTelugu
Yeh Waqt Maut Ka Hai2017The House Next DoorGirishh GHindi
Penne2018CoolieEnglish, TamilSingerSingle
Sirukki2018Nicky MTamilVocal Arranger, Backing VocalsSingle
Yaaro Nee2019Shilpa NatarajanTamilSinger, Composer, Vocal ArrangerSingle
2019AsuranG V PrakashTamilBackground vocalsRe Recording

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