This article does not any. Unsourced material may be challenged. ( May 2018) () Chithra was introduced to Telugu music through the musical Tamil-Telugu dubbed film Sindhu Bhairavi in 1985, then she recorded her first song in the film 'Pralayam' composed by, where she sang a humming portion in 's song. Then in 1986 she recorded two songs for the film Vijrumbhana (Composed by music director Sathyam). Then she went on recording songs in Telugu from 1986-1988 to Ilayaraja, Chakravarthy, K. Mahadevan & Sathyam, but she had her breakthrough in 1988 through the songs in the films Gharshana (Agni Natchathiram) and Geetanjali, which were commercially successful in the Telugu musical field.
She went on to become a regular singer for M. Keeravani, Raj-Koti and S.