Nanditha (singer)

Nanditha (born 28 February) is an Indian singer. Best known as a playback singer in the Kannada film industry, she sings in other languages such as Tamil and Telugu.^[2] Nanditha began her playback career from the film Habba (1998). Since then, she has won numerous awards including the Karnataka State Film Awards and Filmfare Awards South for her singing.^{[citation needed]}

Nanditha Rakesh
Background information
Born	(1978-02-28) 28 February 1978 (age 47)[1]
Origin	Channarayapatna taluk, Hassan district, Karnataka, India
Genres	Filmi, Carnatic Music, Sugama Sangeetha
Occupation	Singer
Instrument(s)	Vocals, Veena
Years active	1998–present

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.^{[citation needed]} Her musical career started as a track singer for music director Hamsalekha. He gave her the first break in his film Habba in 1998.^[4]

Career

Nanditha has worked with many composers including Ilayaraja, Mano Murthy, Hamsalekha, V. Manohar, Rajesh Ramanath ^{[citation needed]}and others. 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).^{[citation needed]} She has won filmfare award for best female singer for the song Kariya I love you from Duniya.^[5] 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 upto over 2000 movie songs. She has also sung over 5000 devotional, folk, sugam Sangeetha songs in over 9 languages.

Notable songs

Some of her songs are

• "Moda Modalu" (Yeshwant)
• "Akka" (Kallarali Hoovagi)
• "Sihi Gali" (Aa Dinagalu)
• "Kariya I Love You" (Duniya)
• "Hoo Kanasa Jokali" (Inthi Ninna Preethiya)
• "Baara Sanihake Baara" (Apthamitra)
• "Habba Habba" (Habba)
• "Idu Modalane Haadu" (Mathadana)
• "O Missamma" (Yuvaraja)
• "Oh Kencha " (Kalasipalya)
• "O Hrudaya" (Shastri)
• "Preethisu Ba" (Daasa)
• "Yaaro" (Orata I Love You)
• "Neenendare Nanage Ishta Kano" (Raam)
• "Neenu Banda Mele" (Krishna)
• "Akashakke Obba" (Jogula)
• "Yede Tumbi" (Paris Pranaya)

Awards

Karnataka State Film Awards

• 2002: Best Female Playback Singer for "Bili Bannada Gini" from Gandhada Gombe^{[citation needed]}
• 2003: Best Female Playback Singer for "Ede Tumbi Hadidenu" from Paris Pranaya^{[citation needed]}
• 2004: Best Female Playback Singer for "Aakashake Obba" from Jogula^{[citation needed]}
• 2009: Best Female Playback Singer for "Baanige Bhaskara Chanda" from Mandakini^{[citation needed]}

Filmfare Awards South

• 2007: Best Female Playback Singer – Kannada for "Kariya I Love You" from [[Duniya (2007 film)|Duniya^{[citation needed]}]]
• 2009: Best Female Playback Singer – Kannada for "Neenendare" from Raam^{[citation needed]}

Udaya Film Awards

• 2007: Best Female Playback Singer for "Kariya I Love You" from Duniya^{[citation needed]}

Suvarna Film Awards

• 2007: Best Female Playback Singer for "Kariya I Love You" from Duniya^{[citation needed]}

Other awards

• 2008: Favorite Singer at SFM Kalaa Awards^{[6][citation needed]}