- She has a record number of duets with P B Srinivas, S P Balasubrahmanyam and Dr Rajkumar. She was awarded the Karnataka Rajyotsava awarded in 2014.
- She was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Mysore for her contributions to Kannada film and music.
- She has recorded nearly 48,000 songs in films, albums, TV and Radio including solos, duets and chorus songs in more than 25 languages including her native language Telugu and in Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Odia, Bengali, Tulu, Urdu, Gujarati, Punjabi, Konkani, Assamese, Sindhi and also in languages such as English, Japanese, Arabic, German, and Sinhala.
- She was awarded the Karnataka Rajyotsava awarded in 2014.
- She has sung in almost all the genres of songs.
- She announced her retirement from singing for films and stage appearances in October 2016.
- However, under pressure from the film fraternity, she made a comeback for the Tamil film Pannadi in 2018.
- She has a record number of duets with P B Srinivas, S P Balasubrahmanyam and Dr Rajkumar. She was awarded the Karnataka Rajyotsava awarded in 2014.
- She was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Mysore for her contributions to Kannada film and music.
- She has a record number of duets with P B Srinivas, S P Balasubrahmanyam and Dr Rajkumar.
- She can fluently converse in 5 Indian languages - Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Hindi and write more than 15 languages.
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