Kavita Krishnamurthy was born as Sharada Krishnamurthy in Delhi to a Tamil family. She began taking classical music lessons at a very young age. She made her first film recording in the year 1971 with the legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar. Her first hit song in bollywood was ‘Tumse milkar na jaane kyon aur bhi kuch yaad aata hai’.

After that she sung for many films like Saudagar, Khalnayak, Hum, Roop ki Rani Choron Ka Raja etc. ‘Saudagar sauda kar dil le le dil de kar’ and ‘Jumma Chumma de de’ from Saudagar and Hum respectively were proved out be huge hits at that time. She scored another huge hit in the form of ‘Bijli girane mainhoon aayi kehte hain mujhko hawa hawai’ from the movie Mr. India. The songs was picturised on beautiful Sridevi.

She continously gave many hit songs in the films like 1942: A Love Story, Mohra, Yaarana, Khamoshi : The Musical. She managed to establish herself as a topmost playback singer in bollywood by rendering many hit songs. She won her fourth Filmfare Best Female Playback Award in the year 2003. She was also awarded the Padmashri by the Indian government in the year 2005.

The best bollywood songs crooned by Kavita Krishnamurthy are mentioned below:

1. Main khwabon ki sehzadi main hoon har dil pe chhayi badal hain meri zulfein bijli meri angdayi - Mr. India
2. Jab baag mein koi phool khila to bhanvre ne kaaha ilu ilu ilu ilu - Saudagar
3. Dil ne kaha chupke se yeh kya hua chupke se kyon naye lag rahe hain ye dharti gagan maine poocha to woh - 1942: A Love Story
4. Mera piya ghar aaya o ramji - Yaarana
5. Aaj main upar aasman neeche aaj main aage zamana hai peeche tell me o khuda ab main kya karoon chaloon sidhi ki ulti chaloon - Khamoshi
6. Humpe yeh kisne hara rang dala khusi ne hamari hamein maar dala allah maar dala - Devdas
7. Hum dil de chuke sanam tere ho gaye hain hum teri kasam - Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam
8. Mein albeli ghoomun akeli koi paheli hoon main - Zubeidaa
9. Jise dhoondhta hoon main har gali jo kabhi mili mujhe hai nahi mujhe jiske pyaar par ho yakeeen woh ladki hai kahan - Dil Chahta Hai
10.Jumme ke din kiya chumme ka wada jumme ko tod diya chumme ka wada karti jo chumme jama jummma chumma naa de - Hum