Caralisa Monteiro is an Indian singer known for advertising jingles and Bollywood songs. 　　Caralisa Monteiro was born to Emeline Monteiro, a school teacher at Don Bosco High School, Matunga and Neville Monteiro an opera singer and an accountant in Mahindra and Mahindra, she was exposed to music at a very young age. She attended Sophia College where she studied Economics and English. 　　At the age of 11 her mother died from cancer. Her sister Giselle was a social worker and music director who died after she was diagnosed with breast cancer in the last stage.