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Tanvi Shah

Tanvi Shah () is an Indian singer and songwriter from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. She sings in the Tamil, Hindi, and Telugu languages. Her first song was "Yakkai Thiri" for the 2004 film Aayutha Ezhuthu.

Career

Shah worked alongside A. R. Rahman, including songs from Sillunu Oru Kaadhal, Slumdog Millionaire and Delhi-6. Her career began with Rahman facilitating invitations from music directors. She has sung for Yuvan Shankar Raja, Amit Trivedi, and other music directors.

In 2010, she shared the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media with Rahman and Gulzar at the 52nd Grammy Awards for the song "Jai Ho", for which she wrote the Spanish lyrics.

In January 2011, she performed for Yuvan – Live in Concert in Chennai and in Malaysia at the KLIMF in 2012. She also performed at a Coke Studio concert at IIM Bangalore on 22 November 2013, featuring Amit Trivedi.

She was invited to speak at the TEDxSF conference on Global Health on November 12, 2014.

Philanthropy

Shah is actively involved with the Cancer Institute (WIA) and with Rotary International's End Polio campaign, with which Amitabh Bachchan, A. R. Rahman, and Anil Kapoor are also associated. She has donated her song "Zindagi", produced by JHawk, to the End Polio campaign album that features international artistes, such as Itzhak Perlman, David Sanborn, Ziggy Marley, Donovan, and members of the Congolese band Staff Benda Bilili.

Awards

Discography

Film scores

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