Question: "Rakkamma Kaiya Thattu" (English: "Rakkamma, Clap Your Hands") is a Tamil language song from which year, an Indian film "Thalapathi", the song was composed by Ilaiyaraaja, with S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and Swarnalatha providing the vocals, was an Indian playback singer?

Context articles: Kaushik Menon (singer)
Filmography of Shreya Ghoshal
Shreya Ghoshal
Rakkamma Kaiya Thattu
List of Tamil songs recorded by Shreya Ghoshal
Thakita Thadimi
Swarnalatha
S. Janaki
Shweta Mohan
List of Kannada songs recorded by K. S. Chithra

Kaushik Menon (also known as "Kaushik") is a vocalist and an Indian playback singer working in the south Indian film industry.
 He started his professional playback singing career in the year 2008, and since has been working as playback vocalist for multiple languages - including Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu.
 He is known for his song, "Natkal Nagarndhu" – the song of friendship from the movie "Ninaithale Inikkum" that gave him a major breakthrough as a playback singer.
Shreya Ghoshal (born 12 March 1984) is an Indian playback singer.
 She has received four National Film Awards, six Filmfare Awards including five for Best Female Playback Singer, nine Filmfare Awards South for Best Female Playback Singer (two for Kannada, four for Malayalam, two for Tamil and one for Telugu), three Kerala State Film Awards and two Tamil Nadu State Film Awards.
 She has recorded songs for film music and albums in various Indian languages and has established herself as a leading playback singer of Indian cinema.
Shreya Ghoshal (born 12 March 1984) is an Indian playback singer.
 She has received four National Film Awards, six Filmfare Awards including five for Best Female Playback Singer, nine Filmfare Awards South for Best Female Playback Singer (two for Tamil, four for Malayalam, two for Kannada and one for Telugu), two Tamil Nadu State Film Awards and three Kerala State Film Awards.
 She has recorded songs for film music and albums in various Indian languages and has established herself as a leading playback singer of Indian cinema.
"Rakkamma Kaiya Thattu" (English: "Rakkamma, Clap Your Hands") is a Tamil language song from the 1991 Indian film "Thalapathi".
 The song was written by Vaali and composed by Ilaiyaraaja, with S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and Swarnalatha providing the vocals.
 The song was named the fourth most popular song in a poll conducted by the BBC World Service worldwide in 2002.
Shreya Ghoshal (born 12 March 1984) is an Indian playback singer.
 She sings in Hindi , Tamil ,Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi , Gujarati, Bengali, Assamese, Nepali, Oriya, Bhojpuri, Punjabi and Tulu.
 Ghoshal's career began when she won the Sa Re Ga Ma Pa contest as an adult.
 Her Bollywood playback singing career began with Devdas, for which she received National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer along with Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer and Filmfare RD Burman Award for New Music Talent.
 Since then, she has received many other awards.
 Ghoshal was also honored from the U.S. state of Ohio , where the governor Ted Strickland declared June 26 as "Shreya Ghoshal Day".
 In April 2013, she was awarded with the highest honour in London by the selected members of House of Commons of the United Kingdom.
 In July 2015, John Cranley, the Mayor of the City of Cincinnati also honoured her by proclaiming July 24, 2015 as "Shreya Ghoshal Day of Entertainment and Inspiration" in Cincinnati.
[1] She was also featured five times in Forbes list of the top 100 celebrities of India.
 In 2017, Ghoshal became the first Indian singer to have a wax figure (statute) of her in Madame Tussauds Museum.
Thakita Thadimi (Telugu: తకిట తదిమి ; Tamil: தகிட ததிமி , Malayalam: തകിട തദ്ധിമി ) is one of the songs from the Telugu movie "Sagara Sangamam", composed by Ilaiyaraaja and written by Veturi Sundararama Murthy.
 It was sung by S. P. Balasubrahmanyam.
 This song was part of the film music album for which the composer and singer won the Indian National Award for best music direction and best male playback singer, respectively.
 In the song, the main character Balakrishna, played by Kamal Haasan, has gotten drunk and is dancing on top of a well.
 Madhavi (Jayaprada), his friend, is watching from behind a wall, extremely worried that he might fall into the well.
 The song is set in the 56th melakartha ragam Shanmukhapriya.
 The song, along with the movie, was dubbed into Tamil and Malayalam, with lyrics by Vairamuthu and Sreekumaran Thampi respectively.
 The Tamil version was also sung by S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, while the Malayalam version was sung by P. Jayachandran.
 Kamal Haasan was commended multiple times for his skillful portrayal of a talented but drunk dancer.
Swarnalatha (29 April 1973 – 12 September 2010) was an Indian playback singer.
 From 1987 onward, she rendered nearly 7,000 songs in many languages including Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, Urdu, Bengali, Oriya, Punjabi and Badaga.
Sishtla Sreeramamurthy Janaki (born 23 April 1938), popularly known as S. Janaki, is an Indian playback singer and occasional music-composer from Andhra Pradesh.
 She is one of the best-known playback singers in South India and has recorded 48,000 songs in 17 Languages like Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Odiya, Hindi, Bengali, Tulu, Sanskrit, Sinhalese, Badaga, Punjabi, Urdu, Japanese, German, Latin and Arabic languages.
 Starting in 1957, her career has spanned six decades.
 She has recorded songs in more than 17 regional Indian languages and foreign languages.
 She has won four National Film Awards and 33 different State Film Awards.
 Her association with singer S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and composer Ilaiyaraaja is well known.
 In the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s her duets with P. B. Srinivas, S.P.Balasubramanyam and with Dr. Rajkumar were some of the most romantic duets in the history of Tamil and Kannada film music.
Shweta Mohan (born 19 November 1985) is an Indian playback singer.
 She has received four Filmfare Awards South for Best Female Playback Singer, one Kerala State Film Awards and two Tamil Nadu State Film Awards.
 She has recorded songs for film music and albums in all the four South Indian languages namely, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada along with the Hindi language and has established herself as a leading playback singer of South Indian cinema.
K. S. Chithra (born 27 July 1963) is an Indian playback singer.
 She sings in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Tulu and other languages.
 Chithra's career began after she teamed up with music director M. G. Radhakrishnan in 1979 and sang few songs for him in Malayalam cinema.
 In 1985, after she was widely acclaimed for her rendition in the Tamil film "Sindhu Bhairavi" composed by Ilaiyaraaja, she began to get offers from all the South Indian film industries.