Sunitha Upadrashta

Sunitha Upadrashta
Background information
Born 10 May 1978
Origin Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India
Occupation(s) singer, anchor, dubbing artist
Years active 1995–present
Website Official Website

Sunitha Upadrashta is a playback singer, anchor and dubbing artist in the Telugu Film industry, also known as Tollywood.

Sunitha's career began in the year 1995 with the movie Gulabi. She works as a singer and an Anchor to various channels who conduct musical programmes. She also works as a dubbing artist and has dubbed for about 750 films.

Career

Sunitha has started her Cultural pursuit at a very early age of threeyears and got training in Music from Pemaraju Surya Rao in Karnatic Vocal and Light music from Kalaga Krishna Mohan for eight years. She has received awards and appreciations in various competitions for her performances. Sunitha, at the age of 10, participated in Tyagaraja Aradhana Utsavalu along with her guru Sri Pemmaraju Surya Rao garu.

She has begun her singing career as a playback singer in films at an age of 16. Sri Sasi Preetham, a music director first gave her a chance to sing in her debut film 'Gulabi' and her debut song is 'Ee Vela Lo Neevu' written by Sirivennela Sitaramasastri.

She has worked under the supervision of music directors like 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-Mayer, Devisri Prasad, R.P. Patnaik, Chakri, Nihal, Kalyani Malik, Anup, Sunil Kashyap, Saluri Vasu Rao, Madhavapeddi Suresh, Saketha Sairam, Bunty, V. Hari Krishna, S.S. Thaman etc. She rendered nearly 3000 songs in many south Indian films. She has sung in Kannada and Tamil apart from Telugu.

Upadrashta has given stage shows abroad as a Singer. She was invited to Telugu Association of North America –TANA in 1999, 2001.She was also invited for European Telugu Association – ETA and American Telugu Association – ATA.

Dubbing artist

Upadrashta has given voice over for various artists like Jyothika, Anushka, Bhoomika, Charmi, Laila, Meera Jasmine, Soundarya, Sonali Bendre, Shriya, Genelia, Sneha, Sada, Katrina Kaif, Tamannaah, Trisha, Kamilini Mukherji, Nayantara etc.

Selected films as dubbing artist

TV programmes

Upadrashta anchored many music based programmes and live shows on Gemini TV, MAA TV, ETV and Doordarshan. She has hosted Navaragam on Gemini and Jhummandi Nadam on ETV, Zee Saregama and ETV Sapta Swaralu, Paaduta Teeyaga. She has been a part of Maa TV's Super Singer show from its 4th series as a judge and mentor.

Awards

National awards

As a student, Upadrashta 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.

Nandi Awards

Filmfare Awards

Other awards

Performances

References

  1. ↑ "Telugu Cinema Etc – Nandi award winners list 2005". Idlebrain.com. 11 November 2006. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
  2. ↑ "Delhi Telugu Academy awards presented". The Hindu (Chennai, India). 9 August 2010.
  3. ↑ "New members take oath in Rajya Sabha | Rehman Khan | Chiranjeevi". Andhrawishesh.com. 24 April 2012. Retrieved 11 August 2012.

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