Referred to as a "Singer with a difference"[1] She began her career in the film Himalay Ki Godmein (1965).
She has sung 5,000 songs in multiple Indian languages such as Hindi, Malayalam, Punjabi, Bhojpuri and Marathi etc.
[2] Usha Timothy was born in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India in a Christian family.
Since there was no female singer to perform, Madhusudan suggested eight-year-old Usha's name to Kalyanji Anandji.
In that film, her duet with Mohammed Rafi "Tu Raat Khadi Thi Chhat Pe" was well received.
Her major work was with Kalyanji Anandji for whom she sang many hit songs in the 1970s most of them duets with Mohammed Rafi.
She recorded her first hit track "Tu Raat Khadi Thi" in Himalay Ki Godmein.
She has sung with other major playback singers including Mukesh, Kishore Kumar, Shamshad Begum, Suman Kalyanpur, Hemlata and Krishna Kalle.
In fact, the famous Pradeep song, 'Aye Mere Watan Ke Logon' was initially sung as a duet by me with C. Ramchandra sahab for a show.