Started in November 2011, ‘JayaHo’Friday Retro Karaoke night by Singer Jaya Rajagopalan has now become the longest-running Hindi Retro show in Chennai completing 400 weeks. Held every Friday at The Black & White Resto-Bar, The Residency, Singer Jaya Rajagopalan has been dishing out retro Hindi music and Bollywood tracks to full houses since 2011. She has been inducted in the India Book of Records for a female singer singing for the maximum number of weeks, which is 400 weeks.
Jayalakshmi Rajagopalan, popularly known as Chennai’s Asha Bhosle started her career by singing in Light Music Troupes then slowly got into the film industry and to her credit has sung around forty songs in Tamil and about two hundred songs in various languages like Telugu, Kannada, and Hindi. She is a versatile singer and popularly known for her modulation of voices.
Her passion for Hindi Retro music made her start a full Hindi retro music night titled “Jaya Ho”. Now it’s the longest-running Hindi Retro show in Chennai and is going strong amidst the music lovers of Chennai. Over the years ‘Jaya Ho’ has comprised a lot of theme-based shows which has been a major hit. There have been themes like Asha Bhosle, Latha Nite, S.D.BurmanNite, R.D. BurmanNite, Hits of the ’50s, O.P. Nayyar, Gulzar, Binacageet mala, National Award songs and many more.