Malgudi Subha (also spelled as Malgadi Shubaa) is a Tamil Indian playback singer. She has recorded songs in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi. In a career spanning for two decades, she sang more than 2500 songs.
She began her career by providing vocals for ad jingles composed by A. R. Rahman, Viji Manuel etc. She debuted as a playback singer through the film Nadodi Thendral, with music by Ilayaraja. Ace Indian composer A. R. Rahman's debut album, Set Me Free (also called Shubhaa Set Me Free) had all its songs sung by Malgudi Shubha.The album which was released in early nineties by some local labels went unnoticed, but became a good seller when it was re-released in 1996 by the label Magnasound.
Her first successful album, Chikpak Chikbhum, which was released in Chennai, sold ten lakh copies. The songs were composed by Raj-Koti, under whom A.R.Rahman was assisted
She has also appeared as a judge on the Malayalam language music competition program Idea Star Singer. She is presently one of the Judges in Star Singer 2 (Kannada), airing on Asianet Suvarna from 7-8 pm on weekdays.She has also appeared as a judge on the Tamil music competition program "SUPER SINGER JUNIOR 2". Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.