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. 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.
Early life Nanditha obtained a bachelor of engineering degree from R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore. She worked as a software engineer for Cisco systems for some time. She left the job and got involved fully into music. Nanditha is also a trained veena player, secured a scholarship from Centre for Cultural Resources and Training, New Delhi, and trained under R. K. Suryanarayan. Her musical career started as a track singer for music director Hamsalekha. He gave her the first break in his film Habba in 1998.
Career Nanditha has worked with many composers including Ilayaraja, Mano Murthy, Hamsalekha, V. Manohar, Rajesh Ramanath 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). She has won filmfare award for best female singer for the song Kariya I love you from Duniya. She has performed all over India, Singapore, USA, Muscat etc. as a professional singer and a Veena artist. To date, she has sung in more than 500 movies in Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, and Malayalam, which add up to 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 2003: Best Female Playback Singer for "Ede Tumbi Hadidenu" from Paris Pranaya 2004: Best Female Playback Singer for "Aakashake Obba" from Jogula 2009: Best Female Playback Singer for "Baanige Bhaskara Chanda" from Mandakini
Filmfare Awards South 2007: Best Female Playback Singer – Kannada for "Kariya I Love You" from Duniya 2009: Best Female Playback Singer – Kannada for "Neenendare" from Raam
Udaya Film Awards 2007: Best Female Playback Singer for "Kariya I Love You" from Duniya
Suvarna Film Awards 2007: Best Female Playback Singer for "Kariya I Love You" from Duniya
Other awards 2008: Favorite Singer at SFM Kalaa Awards
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