Chitra Iyer is one of the talented playback singers from South India. She learnt the essentials of carnatic music from her mother at a young age. She sang her first song for a Tamil film Thenali composed by A.R Rahman named 'Athini Chithini'. She travels all over the country and abroad with her orchestra and has left an unforgettable impression in the minds of music lovers with quite a few popular songs in Tamil as well as in Malayalam.