Sundar Narayana Rao

Sundar Narayana Rao

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Sundar Narayana Rao.
Background information
Born India
Genres Indian classical music, Pakistani classical music, Afghani classical music, Thumri, Tappa, Natya Sangeet, Abhangs, Sufi, Qawwali, film singing
Occupation(s) Singer
Years active 2013–present

Sundar Narayana Rao (born: 30 January) is an Indian singer. He mainly sings in the Tamil and Telugu languages.[1]

Early life

Sundar Narayana Rao was born and brought up in Tamil Nadu. He was initiated into music at a very young age and was exposed to many forms of music. His learning and exploration took a drastic turn when he was exposed to ustad Aamir Khan’s cassette during his engineering days. It was at this time, he strongly felt he was more inclined towards the system of Hindustani classical music and started to deepen his learning harder. He learnt from several people initially before becoming the disciple of Pandit Madhav Bhatki of Gwalior Gharana, with whom he learnt for many years in New Jersey . Seeing his ardent potential, Pandit Madhav Bhatki developed his vigorous tayyari exclusively for many years and put him to practice for 10 to 12 hrs a day. His quest for learning all forms of music expanded his horizon towards Pakistani classical music, Afghani classical music, Punjabi classical music, Sufiana and multiple semi classical forms of Indian subgenres from the respective exponents of each systems during his many years of USA tenure...

Career

During his long stay in USA, he was associated with many North-American composers to do many non-film sound tracks and film sound tracks in multiple languages. Around early 2006, He relocated to India to pursue North Indian classical music in main stream capacity and with some of his friends making connections with film composers, he was forayed into film music. His diversified musical profile drew attention on M Ghibran, who then launched him with Kuru Kuru and Kanna Kanna from the same movie, “vathikuchi”.

As playback singer

Notable Tamil songs

Year Film Songs Composer Co-Singer(s)
2013 Vathikuchi "Kuru Kuru" M Ghibran Solo
2013 Vathikuchi "Kanna Kanna" M Ghibran Solo
2013 Kutti Puli "Aatha un Selai" M Ghibran Solo
2013 Kutti Puli "Deivam yellam Onnagi" M Ghibran Solo
2013 Praanam Kosam "Chura Chura" M Ghibran Solo
2013 Praanam Kosam "Kannu Kannu" M Ghibran Solo
2013 Naiyaandi "Ae Le Le Etti Paarthale" M Ghibran with Leon D'Souza
2013 Naiyaandi "Marriage Marketil" M Ghibran Solo
2013 Thirumanam Ennum Nikkah "Chillendra Chillendra" M Ghibran with Kaushiki Chakrabarty
2014 Amarakaaviyam "Edhedho ennamvandhu" M Ghibran Solo

Discography

References

  1. ↑ [ Times of India] "...written by Arivumathi and sung by Sundar Narayana Rao is pleasing."

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