She has sung in concerts in India and abroad with the leading playback singers including S.
She is also a live stage performer who has performed more than 2000 orchestras.
Her popular song "Aandipatti Kanava Kathu" from the Tamil "film Dharamadurai garnered 26 million views on YouTube." Also her another song "Peechey Peechey" from the movie Aranmanai is featured as one of the "most popular tamil songs from the best artists" in the Tamil section of the Emirates Entertainment (In-Flight) Magazine, October 2016. Her famous hit songs include "Pothum Otha Sollu", "Chinna Paya Vayasu", and "Paruruvayaa". She has sung for more than 15 movies in Tamil and Telugu under the musical composition of Ilayaraja. Imaan, Colonial Cousins, Jeevaraja, Vijayshankar, Taj Noor, Xavier, Manikanth Kadri, Rajini, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Ganesh Raghavendra, Nallathambi, and Shyam Balakrishnan. Rahman, Hariharan, Bharadwaj, Vidhyasagar, Sharetth, Vijay Antony, Deva, Srikanth Deva, D. She has sung the songs composed by all leading music directors in the film industry including Ilayaraja, A.R. B.H.Abdul Hameed advised her to make her voice recorded in a cassette to distribute to the music directors. She started singing Light music shows at the age of 14. Surmukhi's playback singing career started in 2007 and has spanned over two decades. The meaning of Surmukhi is face (Swara mukhi).
Legendary Ghazal King Hariharan has chosen this name for her. As advised by music composer Colonial Cousins, her birth name Suchithra Raman was rechristened as Surmukhi Raman after the movie Modhi Vilayadu in order to avoid confusion with other singers who have similar names. He had great influence on her singing career. Ramanan, who had been a semi classical singer in All India Radio, Indore, Madhya Pradesh. Surmukhi Raman completed her primary education in Pune, Maharashtra and higher education at Vyasa Vidhyalaya Matric Higher Secondary School in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.