Vaikom Vijayalakshmi's wedding is scheduled to take place on March 29 (Image courtesy: Diamond Babu)
Highlights
- Vaikom Vijayalakshmi got engaged to Bahrain-based musician Santhosh
- The wedding is scheduled for March 29
- In 2013, she won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Singer
Famous Malayali singer Vaikom Vijayalakshmi got engaged to Santhosh in an extremely private ceremony on Wednesday in Vaikom, Kerala, reported
Times of India. The groom is based in Bahrain and is also a musician. The marriage is scheduled to take place on March 29, 2017 in Thissur. In 2013, she won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Singer for the song
Ottakku Padunna from
Nadan. Vijayalakshmi, 35, wore a pink
saree, while her fiance wore a white
dhoti. The engagement ceremony was kept extremely simple and was attended by only close friends and relatives from the couple's family. Vijayalakshmi is an expert in a rare musical instrument called
Gayatriveena.
Here's how the couple looked:
The musician, who is visually impaired, has been in the entertainment industry since 1995. She has given many performances onstage in Chennai, Madurai, Coimbatore and other major place. In 2012, she bagged the Kerala State Film Award Special Jury Mention for
Kaatte Kaatte from
Celluloid.
Vijayalakshmi was born in Vaikom on October 7, 1981, but she later moved to Chennai. Though she is not trained in any formal music, she learned more than 100
ragas and made compositions by herself.
Her notable songs include
Kaikkottum Kandittilla, Uppinu Pona Vazhi Ethu and Neeyo Njano, among many others.
In 2014, she was nominated in the 3rd South Indian International Movie Awards for Best Female Playback Singer. In the same year she received
Eenam Swaralaya Awards for song
Ottakku Padunna from
Nadan. Also she won the C.K.M.A Malayalam film Awards for Best female singer in 2014.
Congratulations, Vaikom Vijayalakshmi.