Uma Ramanan learned music formally at the behest of his parents. During his college days he participated in various competitions and won many prizes.
During this time, she meets her future husband AVRaman. He is looking for a female voice to sing the songs in his stage concerts. Uma Raman’s voice becomes the source of her concert and life. Both of them have been singing together in thousands of stage concerts.
AV Ramanan and Uma Ramanan sang together in the Hindi film ‘Playboy’. After that, she sang a song in the 1977 film ‘Krishna Leela’ composed by SV Venkatraman. It was at this time that the movie ‘Shadows’ was released in 1980 with the music of Ilayaraja. Uma Raman’s song ‘Poongathave Nacho Talaavai’ from that film got a huge reception in the world of Tamil cinema. This song will have an inevitable place in the song storage of music lovers.
Deepan Chakraborty – Uma Ramanan’s voices have beautifully expressed all the musical wonders hidden in the composition of the song ‘Poongathave’. To simply explain what tenderness is, one needs only to listen closely to the single letter ‘M’ sung by Uma Ramanan in the stanzas of this song.
Later in the same year, Uma Ramanan sang in her husband’s music for ‘Neerottam’ and Ilayaraja’s music for ‘Mudupani’. The song ‘Ananda Ragam’ from the 1981 film ‘Panneer Pushpamangal’ was another crowning glory in Uma Raman’s film career.
Uma Ramana’s voice can’t help but listen to the heartbreak of a teenage heroine. Uma Ramana’s voice in the song ‘Ananda Ragam’, which brings a roller coaster feel to the western classical music composition, will make the listeners’ ears and hearts sway to worship Ananda Ragam. When Uma Raman’s voice joins the violins, viola, bass, keyboard, guitar, tabla and senai, one can feel that it is an ‘epic raga heard in the air’ as the lyrics of this song say.
In the same year, Uma Ramanan sang the song ‘Amude Tamilye’ in the movie ‘Kovil Poora’. Another highlight of Uma Raman is her accent. This can be felt very well in many of his songs. Uma Ramana’s voice sings this song that praises the beauty of Tamil.
In 1982, Uma Ramanan had sung the song ‘Bhoopalam Izhikum’ in the film ‘Dural Ninnu Bochu’ along with Jesudas. This song has brought all the aspects that make the peace of the morning beautiful when the darkness is gone and the light is about to come in the voice of these two. It is so comfortable to listen to this song in the voice of two people who have mixed the darkness and the light. That too, “Nana Nana Nana Nana Na” in Uma Ramana’s voice in the stanzas, no matter how many times you hear it, you will not be shocked.
In the same year, he sang the song ‘Sevvaralith Thottathula’ in the movie Bhagavathipuram Railway Gate along with Ilayaraja. Uma Ramanan’s singing of this song, which is made to be sung by village lovers, is excellent. He would have absorbed the meaning of the lyrics and expressed the sins accordingly.
Next, Uma Ramanan sang the song ‘Megang Karukaiyile’ in the film ‘Vaidegi Vaittaal’ with Ilayaraja and the song ‘Nil Nil Nil’ in the film Patup Padava. Uma Ramana’s unique voice in each of these songs creates a kind of attraction. Similarly, if you hear the female version of ‘Aarum Athu Alamilla’ in the voice of Uma Ramana in the first Vasantham movie, you will be filled with great sadness.
Uma Ramanan – Jesudas combo is an all-time favorite of many. A bass voice combined with a sharp voice creates an indescribable joy in the listeners. All the songs that the two have sung together are unshakeable even in the Spotify era. Every song like ‘Kasthuri Mane’, ‘Kannane Nee Vara’, ‘Agaya Vennilave’, ‘Ne Badi Naan Badi’ is memorable even today.
Similarly, the songs ‘Muthamma Muthu Muthu’, ‘Kathal Nilave’, ‘Itu Manodu Mayiladum’ sung by Uma Ramanan along with Arunmozhi who can sing on the base note and ‘Pon Mane Gobam’ sung with Unni Menon are unforgettable in the memory of music fans.
Uma Ramanan has sung songs in the music of many composers like MSV, Shankar-Ganesh, D. Rajender, Deva, SA Rajkumar, Chili, Mani Sharma, Srikanth Deva, Vidyasagar. Uma Raman’s songs in Ilayaraja’s music have their own fan base.
Music is generally best for relaxation. The worry and sadness that is frozen in the mind will melt away with a song heard from somewhere. The voice that sounds from afar is full of comfort and compassion. Uma Raman’s voice is the epic raga heard in the air!
