Laxmikant gave her an opportunity to work as a dubbing artist. The song was entitled ' Aayega Aanewala' (a remake of Mahal's (1949) superhit song sung by Lata Mangeshkar) and was picturised on Shabana Azmi. She recorded her first song under Vilayat Khan's composition in Kadambari (1976). Through her aunt's strong contacts, she met Jaya Chakravarthy, the mother of actress Hema Malini, who later took the initiative of introducing Kavita to the music director Laxmikant (one of the composer duo Laxmikant–Pyarelal) in late 1976. In one such performance, playback singer Manna Dey spotted her and employed her to sing advertisement jingles. He was impressed by her grounding in music, so he began using her as a singer during his live performances. Ranu took the initiative of reintroducing Kavita to her father. During the annual college festival (Malhar), she met Ranu Mukherjee, the daughter of Hemant Kumar. Xavier's College, Bombay from where she did her BA Honors Economics. Although the young Sharada aspired to work in Indian Foreign Services, she moved to Bombay when she was 14 to try her luck as a playback singer in the Hindi film industry.
Xavier College, Mumbai, she got an opportunity to record a song in the Bengali film Shriman Prithviraj in 1971 with Lata Mangeshkar as co-singer under the auspices of the music composer and singer Hemant Kumar.
She won several medals participating in the Inter-Ministry Classical Competition in New Delhi in the mid-1960s.ĭuring her college days at St.
At the young age of eight, Kavita won a gold medal at a music competition. She began her formal training in Hindustani classical music under the guidance of Balram Puri, a classical singer. She began her musical training at the insistence of her aunt, Protimma Bhattacharya who enrolled her to train under Suruma Basu, where she was taught Rabindra Sangeet. Krishnamurthy, an employee of the Education Ministry. Born as Sharada into a Tamil Iyer family in New Delhi to T.S.