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Chinmayi Sripada born (September 10, 1984) is an Indian playback singer, working mainly for the South Indian film industry. She is also a voice actor, and has worked as a television presenter and a Radio jockey as well. She is the founder and CEO of a translation services company called Blue Elephant.

Chinmayi comes from Musical family. Chinmayi\'s mother, T. Padmhasini, a singer and musicologist, taught her Carnatic music and Hindustani classical music. After her birth and early childhood in Mumbai, Chinmayi relocated to Chennai, where she attended the Children\'s Garden school until the age of 10. She was then enrolled at Hindu Senior Secondary School, Indira Nagar and went on to complete her school education through home study modules.

Chinmayi received the CCRT Scholarship for Young Talent for Carnatic Music from the Government of India at 10.She won the gold medal from All India Radio for Ghazals in 2000 and the Silver for Hindustani Classical Music in 2002. She learned German as a language in the Max Mueller Bhavan in Chennai and completed certification courses from NIIT and SSI in web design. During her school life, she held jobs with both Sify and studentconcepts.org. Chinmayi currently holds a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology from the University of Madras.

Chinmayi is a polyglot; apart from Tamil and English, she speaks Telugu, Hindi and German fluently.She participated and won the singing competition of Sun TV, Saptasawarangal, following which she was introduced by Singer Srinivas to film composer A. R. Rahman. Chinmayi\'s playback singing career began with her performance of Rahman\'s \"Oru Deivam Thanta Poove\" for the film Kannathil Muthamittal. After a couple of years of singing exclusively for Tamil, Telugu, Tulu and Malayalam films, she made her Bollywood debut in Mangal Pandey: The Rising with the song \"Holi Re\". About a year later, she garnered more recognition with her performances of \"Tere Bina\" and \"Mayya\" in the movie Guru. In 2007, the song \"Beda Beda\" marked her first venture into Kannada playback singing. She has since received critical acclaim for songs such as \"Oru Deivam Thantha Poove\", Sahana\", \"Vaarayo Vaarayo\", \"Kilimanjaro\", \"Sara Sara\" and \"Asku Laska\".