| Sunitha Upadrashta సునీత ఉపద్రష్ట |
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| Born | May 10, 1978 |
| Origin | Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India |
| Occupations | Playback Singer, Anchor, Dubbing Artist |
| Website | http://www.singersunitha.com |
Sunitha Upadrashta (Telugu: సునీత ఉపద్రష్ట) is playback singer, anchor and dubbing artist in the Telugu Film industry, also known as Tollywood.
She has been acclaimed as a top-singer winning kudos from stalwarts like Sri S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, M. Balamuralikrishna, Smt. P. Suseela, Smt.S. Janaki, and others. She works as a singer, as a dubbing artiste, and as an Anchor to various channels who conduct musical programmes. She has worked as a dubbing artiste in almost 500 films in 8 years.[1]
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Sunita was born into a Telugu Brahmin family.Her parents Sri Upadrasta Narasimha Rao and Smt. Sumathi are well known to music lovers at Vijayawada and Guntur. She married at the age of 19. Her husband Kiran works for the media. The couple have two children-one boy (Akash) and one girl (Shreya).
She has started her Cultural pursuit at a very early age of 3 years and got training in Music from Pemaraju Surya Rao in Karnatic Vocal and Light music from Kalaga Krishna Mohan for 8 years. She won several ‘prizes’ and ‘praises’ in various competitions ranking first and Gold Medals. Sunitha, at her very young age of 10 years, participated in Tyagaraja Aradhana Utsavalu along with her guru Sri Pemmaraju Surya Rao garu.
She entered as a playback singer in Films at her early age of 15 years. Sri Sasi Preetham, a music director has first gave her a chance to sing in the film ‘Gulabi’ and her first film song is ‘Ee vela lo Neevu’ written by Sirivennela Sitaramasastri.
So far, she worked with music directors including Ilayaraja, Vidya sagar, M.M. Keeravani, S.V. Krishna Reddy, Koti, Raj, Vandematharam Srinivas, Mani Sharma, Ramana Gogula, S.A. Raj kumar, Sandeep choutha, Micky-J-Mayor, Devisri Prasad, R.P. Patnaik, Chakri, Nihal, Kalyani Malik, Anup, Sunil Kashyap, Saluri Vasu Rao, Madhavapeddi Suresh, Saketha Sairam, bunty etc.… There are so many super hit songs to her credit. She rendered nearly 3000 songs, in films. She has also sung songs in Kannada, Tamil and Malayalam languages.[2]
Sunitha has traveled abroad extensively as a Singer and claimed International recognition. She was invited to Telugu Association of North America –TANA in 1999, 2001. For TANA 1999 she was a part of the troop with Nagarjuna, RamyaKrishna and Tabu.
She has given voice for various artists like Anushka, Asin, Bhoomika, Charmi, Laila, Meera Jasmine, Soundarya, Sonali Bendre, Shriya, Genelia, Sneha, Sada, Katrina Kaif, Trisha, Kamilini Mukherji,etc.
She anchored many music based programmes and live shows on Gemini TV, MAA TV, ETV and Doordarshan.
As a student, she received First National Award for Folk songs at Delhi, Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Delhi and she received a scholarship at the age of 8 years.