# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/p-susheela
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:37:40.626Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/p-susheela"
name: "P. Susheela"
slug: "p-susheela"
description: "Pulapaka Suseela is an Indian playback singer associated with the South Indian cinema for over six decades and is referred to as the \"Evergreen Nightingale of Indian cinema\". She is one of the best-known playback singers in India. She has been recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as well as by the Asia Book of Records for performing a record number of songs in different Indian languages. She is also the recipient of five National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer and the first woman playback singer to receive the national award. She also has received numerous state awards. Susheela is widely acclaimed as a singer who defined feminism in South Indian cinema and is well known for her mellifluous vocal performances for over 50,000 film and devotional songs across Indian languages songs in films, albums, TV and radio which includes solos, duets, chorus and title tracks, including Telugu, Tamil,Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi, Sanskrit, Odia, Tulu, Urdu, Punjabi, Badaga, Bengali, Konkani, as well as in foreign languages such as English. She has been active in the music industry since 1951."
tagline: "Indian singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/With_P_Susheela_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1935-11-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.09
  momentum:             5.671843349088452
  historical:           12.637564
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  238
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0654915/"
    handle:    "nm0654915"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump