# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/p-leela
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:01:01.115Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/p-leela"
name: "P. Leela"
slug: "p-leela"
description: "Porayath Leela was an Indian playback singer, a Carnatic vocalist, and a music director. She began her career as a playback singer in the 1948 Tamil film Kangkanam. She recorded songs in various Indian languages, including Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, Bengali, Sanskrit, Odia, Gujarati, Marathi, and Sinhala. Leela was posthumously awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2006."
tagline: "Indian playback singer (1934-2005)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/PLeela.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1934-05-19"
deathDate: "2005-10-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.31
  momentum:             1.776027996500438
  historical:           8.448456
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0654901/"
    handle:    "nm0654901"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "পি. লীলা"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "P. Leela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._Leela"
    title: "P. Leela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5.%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE"
    title: "स्व.पी लीला"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%AA%E0%B2%BF._%E0%B2%B2%E0%B3%80%E0%B2%B2%E0%B2%BE"
    title: "ಪಿ. ಲೀಲಾ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "പി. ലീല"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%AA%E0%A9%80._%E0%A8%B2%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%B2%E0%A8%BE"
    title: "ਪੀ. ਲੀਲਾ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BF._%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%80%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%BE"
    title: "பி. லீலா"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AA%E0%B0%BF.%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%B2"
    title: "పి.లీల"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q465063"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2028339"
    title: "P. Leela"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump