She is married to Mohan Rao they have a son named Jayakrishnan and two granddaughters named Jayashree and Subashree. She cannot read or write in Malayalam or Kannada, but she has sung more than 2000 songs in Malayalam. Meyyappa Chettiar appointed a Tamil teacher for Susheela to train her in the proper pronunciation of words. She can read and write in Tamil but is not fluent while speaking. She would eventually go on to win the award five times. She won the first National Film Award ever awarded in the Best Female Playback Singer category in 1969. She rendered memorable songs in various south Indian languages under the musical direction of K. Nevertheless, she achieved great popularity in a short time, and by 1955 many Indian movies featured her voice in one or more songs. Rathinam, Radha Jayalakshmi, Soolamangalam Rajalakshmi, Rao Balasaraswathi Devi, A. Susheela began her professional career at a time when competition was intense there were already many established playback singing stars such P. She was only 16 years old at the time the song was recorded in 1951 on a Telugu New Year's Day in Prakash Studio. Raja for the 1951 Tamil movie Petra Thaai (Kanna Thalli in Telugu). Of the five people referred, Susheela was selected and sang her first song, a duet titled 'Edhukku Azhaithaai', with A. In 1950, music director Pendyala Nageswara Rao was looking for new talent and scouted for new singers at All India Radio. She later joined the Sangeeta Academy in Chennai under the guidance of Subramani Iyer and completed a degree in music. She went on to study music at Maharaja Music College in Vijayanagaram and graduated in first class. In her early school days she participated in all the music competitions, sometimes to the detriment of her academic education. Susheela was born in Vijayanagaram, Andhra Pradesh, India to Mukundarao and Sheshawataram, as the fifth of nine children.

In a career spanning more than four decades, she has recorded songs in many Indian languages including Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi, Bengali, Oriya, Sanskrit, Tulu, Paduga and Sinhalese. Susheela or Pulapaka Susheela (born November 13, 1935) is an Indian playback singer.

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