Usha Uthup

Usha Uthup (formerly known as Sami) is a popular Indian pop singer. She was well known for popular hits in the late 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

She has sung in 15 Indian languages including Bengali, Hindi, English, Punjabi, Assamese, Oriya, Gujarati, Marathi, Konkani, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu. She can also sing in several foreign languages including Dutch, French, German, Italian, Sinhalese, Swahili, Russian, Nepalese, Arabic, Creole, Zulu, and Spanish.

Early Life

Usha Sami was born in a Tamil brahmin family that hailed from Tamil Nadu, in Madras (now Chennai) in 1947. Her father Sami Iyer, later became the police commissioner of Bombay. She has three sisters Uma Pocha, Indira Srinivasan and Maya Sami, all of whom are singers and two brothers, one of whom is named Shyam. She was...