Dr.M.Premeela was born on 5-10-1954 and her parents hail from Kottayam, Kerala and Tirunelveli respectively. Premeela started to perform Karnatic concerts from the age of twelve and performed at the Thiruvaiyaru Thyagaraja Utsavam in 1969 at the age of sixteen. 

she then continued to do her masters degree at the Centre of Advanced Study in Indian Philosophy from 1974 to 1976 ( in High second class) and also did an M.A in Indian Music ( passed with overall grade A ) both at the University of Madras. Winning a fellowship from the department of culture, New Delhi. She completed her Ph.D in Kathakalakshepa, a study in which she not only researched the art of story telling in the States of Maharashtra, Tamilnadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka but also learned the art to perform musical discourses from veterens of the art such as Embar Vijayaraghavacharya and Smt.C.Banni Bai.

Premeela however started to perform Karnatic music concerts from the age of 12 and learned various genres of music from the following great masters, such as Musiri Subramanya Iyer, T.K Govinda Rao, B. Rajam Iyer, Mudicondan Venkatarama Iyer, T.M Thyagarajan and T. Muktha(Karnatic Music).

She also learned Hindustani Classical from Krishnanad of Kirana Gharana and performed her maiden concert in the year 1984 which was presided by Sangita Kalanidhi Sri. Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer.