Shimoga Subbanna

Shimoga Subbanna (Kannada: ಶಿವಮೊಗ್ಗ ಸುಬ್ಬಣ್ಣ; born as G. Subramanya on December 14, 1938) is a Sugama Sangeetha singer and playback singer in the Kannada language. He received a national award for singing for the song Kaadu Kudure Odi Banditta in the film Kaadu Kudure.^[1] He is the first Kannadiga to win National Award for playback singing.^[2] Apart from being a creative artist he is a notary.

Awards and honors

Subbanna has received several awards and honors for his contributions to Sugama Sangeetha,^[3] some of which are listed below.

National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer in 1979 ^[1]
Kannada Kampu award in 2006 ^[4]
Honorary doctorate from Kuvempu University in 2008 ^[5]
Sundarashri Award in 2009 ^[6]

References

National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer

1968–1980	Mahendra Kapoor (1968) Manna Dey (1969) Sachin Dev Burman (1970) Manna Dey (1971) Hemant Kumar (1972) K. J. Yesudas (1973) K. J. Yesudas (1974) Mukesh (1975) M. Balamuralikrishna (1976) K. J. Yesudas (1977) Mohammed Rafi (1978) Shimoga Subbanna (1979) S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (1980)

1981–2000	Anup Ghoshal (1981) S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (1982) K. J. Yesudas (1983) S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (1984) Bhimsen Joshi (1985) P. Jayachandran (1986) Hemant Kumar (1987) K. J. Yesudas (1988) S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (1989) Ajoy Chakrabarty (1990) M. G. Sreekumar (1991) K. J. Yesudas (1992) Rajkumar (1993) K. J. Yesudas (1994) P. Unni Krishnan (1995) S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (1996) S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (1997) Hariharan (1998) Sanjeev Abhyankar (1999) M. G. Sreekumar (2000)

2001–present	Shankar Mahadevan (2001) Udit Narayan (2002) Udit Narayan (2003) Sonu Nigam (2004) Udit Narayan (2005) Naresh Iyer (2006) Gurdas Maan (2007) Shankar Mahadevan (2008) Hariharan (2009) Rupam Islam (2010) Suresh Wadkar (2011)

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Name	Subbanna, Shimoga
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Date of birth	December 14, 1938
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