A. G. Rathnamala

A. G. Rathnamala (ஏ. ஜி. ரத்தினமாலா) (1931 – 3 July 2007) was an Indian stage drama artist and playback singer who has recorded over 500 songs in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada language films.

Stage Drama
When she was in the drama troupe of M. G. Ramachandran, she acted as his pair of in the drama named Inba Kanavu. Apart from this she acted along with T. R. Mahalingam in the drama Or Iravu. She was also acted with K. R. Ramasamy's drama troupe.

En Thangai was based on T. S. Natarajan's play of the same name. Sivaji Ganesan is the hero in the stage drama and she performed as his younger sister. Later she joined Sivaji Ganesan's drama troupe and enacted the role of Jakkamma in the drama Veerapandiya Kattbomman.

Music composers she sang for
• G. Ramanathan

• S. M. Subbaiah Naidu

• C. R. Subburaman

• M. S. Gnanamani

• G. Govindarajulu Naidu

• S. Dakshinamurthi

• C. N. Pandurangan

• T. R. Pappa

• N. S. Balakrishnan

• R. Sudarsanam

• V. Dakshinamoorthy

• R. Govardhanam

• T. A. Kalyanam

• M. S. Viswanathan

• K. V. Mahadevan

• K. N. Dandayudhapani Pillai

• Ghantasala

• S. V. Venkatraman

• T. R. Ramanathan

• S. Rajeswara Rao

• Viswanathan–Ramamoorthy

• P. Adinarayana Rao

• T. G. Lingappa

• G. Ashwathama

• Pendyala Nageswara Rao

• S. Hanumantha Rao

• Meenakshi Subramanyam

• M. Ranga Rao

• H. R. Padmanabha Sastri

• Vedha

Playback singers she sang with
She had many solo songs but also sang with other singers. She was very popular with comedy songs. She sang immemorable duets mostly with S. C. Krishnan. She also sang with all the comedian singers such as J. P. Chandrababu, Thiruchi Loganathan, K. R. Chellamuthu, A. L. Raghavan, C. S. Pandiyan, S. V. Ponnusamy, K. Sarangapani, V. T. Rajagopalan, C. Thangkappan, Madhavapeddi Satyam, Pithapuram Nageswara Rao & K. H. Reddy. Others are T. M. Soundararajan, Seerkazhi Govindarajan, C. S. Jayaraman, C. R. Subburaman, V. J. Varma, S. V. Ramanan and G. K. Venkatesh.

She also sang duets with female singers with most notably with K. Jamuna Rani, A. P. Komala & P. Leela. Others include M. L. Vasanthakumari, Jikki, M. S. Rajeswari, T. V. Rathnam, K. Rani, T. S. Bagavathi, Soolamangalam Jayalakshmi, Soolamangalam Rajalakshmi, P. A. Periyanayaki, N. L. Ganasaraswathi, U. R. Chandra, S. J. Kantha, G. Kasthoori, Sundaramma, Kamala, Gomathi, Udutha Sarojini & M. S. Padma.

The singing actors she sang with were T. R. Mahalingam, J. P. Chandrababu, N. S. Krishnan, T. A. Mathuram. C. S. Pandiyan, P. Bhanumathi and K. Sarangapani.