Nanditha (singer)

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Early life

Nanditha completed her BE from R V College of Engineering (RVCE), Bangalore. She worked as a software engineer for Cisco systems for some time.[3] She left the job and got involved fully into music. She is also a trained veena player.[4][5] Her musical career started as a track singer for music director Hamsalekha. He gave her the first break in his film Habba in 1998.[6]

Career

She has won the Karnataka state award four times which includes for three consecutive times and she is the only singer so far from Karnataka to achieve that. She has established herself as a dubbing artist too. She has dubbed for hit films like Nanna Preethiya Hudugi (for Deepa), Paris Pranaya (for Minal patel).[7] She has won filmfare award for best female singer for the song Kariya I love you from Duniya.[8]

She has performed all over India, Singapore, USA, Muscat and etc as a professional singer and a Veena artist. Till date, she has sung in more than 500 movies in Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam which add up to over 2000 movie songs. She has also sung over 5000 devotional, folk, sugam Sangeetha songs in over 9 languages.

Music Direction

Nanditha made her debut as a music director in 2018 with the movie NANAGISHTA. She has also composed for the movie PREETHI KELI SNEHA KALEDUKOLLABEDI.[9][10]

Reality Shows

Nanditha has served as a judge on several Kannada reality singing competitions including:

  • Confident Star Singer* on Asianet Suvarna[11]
  • Sangeetha Mahayuddha on Udaya TV[12]
  • Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Championship on Zee Kannada[13]

Notable songs

Some of her songs are

Awards

Karnataka State Film Awards

  • 2002: Best Female Playback Singer for "Bili Bannada Gini" from Gandhada Gombe[14]
  • 2003: Best Female Playback Singer for "Ede Tumbi Hadidenu" from Paris PranayaScript error: No such module "Unsubst".
  • 2004: Best Female Playback Singer for "Aakashake Obba" from Jogula[15]
  • 2009: Best Female Playback Singer for "Baanige Bhaskara Chanda" from Mandakini[16]

Filmfare Awards South

Udaya Film Awards

  • 2007: Best Female Playback Singer for "Kariya I Love You" from Duniya[18]

Suvarna Film Awards

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Other awards

  • 2008: Favorite Singer at SFM Kalaa Awards[19]Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

References

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