Jonita Gandhi is a Canadian singer. She has recorded songs predominantly in Hindi and Tamil languages with a few in Punjabi, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Kannada, and Malayalam languages. Some of her superhit songs include The Breakup Song, Mental Manadhil, Chellama, and Arabic Kuthu. She sang her first song for the Chennai Express title track.
Jonita Gandhi was born in a Punjabi family from Delhi. The family of Jonita moved to Canada when she was nine months old. She studied at Turner Fenton Secondary School and attended the University of Western Ontario where she completed her degrees in health science and business. She has had formal training in Western and Hindustani classical singing. She along with her father and brother would often perform cover songs together at live community events. At age 16, she auditioned for Canadian Idol but didn’t get past the audition rounds. She started making YouTube covers and her hits on YouTube are Pani Da Rang, Tujhko Jo Paaya, Tum Hi Ho, Suhaani Raat, Yeh Honsla, etc., She started playback singing with Chennai Express. Later, she worked as a playback singer with music directors including A. R. Rahman and Pritam. Rahman featured Gandhi in the concert film One Heart (film). She performed at the 2016 Jubilee Games in Dubai with Salim–Sulaiman and with Amit Trivedi on MTV Unplugged.
Here are some Telugu super hit songs sung by Jonita Gandhi.