P. Susheela , legendary Padma awarded playback singer has become the “Guinness World Records” title holder for the highest number of solo, duet and chorus backed songs in around six Indian languages.

The Official Certificate which is presented by Guinness, holds the records of her, it was verified that she sung 17,695 solo, duet and chorus backed songs, till 28,January 2016. Susheela has over 30,000 songs to her credit across multiple languages.

In Telugu alone, she has sung close to 20,000 songs, followed by around 10,000 songs in Tamil, besides many more in other languages. She made her singing debut from “Petra Thai” in the year 1952 and won five National Awards and also coveted Padma Bhushan honour.