Kuhoo Gupta
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Academic career

She holds an M.Tech Degree in Computer Science Engineering from IIT Bombay and a B.E Degree in Information Technology from Institute of Engineering and Technology, DAVV, Indore
Institute of Engineering and Technology, DAVV
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. She has worked in the Software Industry
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 for 5 years by now.

Music career

Kuhoo Gupta started training in Hindustani Classical Music
Hindustani classical music
Hindustani classical music is the Hindustani or North Indian style of Indian classical music found throughout the northern Indian subcontinent. The style is sometimes called North Indian Classical Music or Shāstriya Sangeet...

 at an age of 11 from Smt. Shobha Bhatt of Jabalpur, MP
Member of Parliament
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, and started giving stage performances at the age of 15. She also received significant music training from Smt. Aruna Paranjape in her school in Jabalpur. She self trained herself in light music by keenly listening to old and new Hindi Film (Bollywood
Bollywood
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) music and imbibing the intricacies of the same. Later she went on to take classical lessons for a while from Smt. Sudha Patwardhan in Pune
Pune
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. She has also participated in Zee
Zee
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 SaReGaMaPa in 2003 and 2004.

She has an ability to interpret fresh compositions which helps her create her own identity as a singer. She sings Semi-classical Hindustani Music, Film songs, Independent Music, Devotional songs. Her mother tongue being Hindi, she has sung in various languages including Hindi
Hindi
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, Tamil
Tamil language
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, Oriya
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, English
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, Sanskrit
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, Marathi
Marathi language
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, Bengali
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.

She began her singing career in 2002 with some Regional Devotional Albums in MP. Then after a break for studies, she returned back in 2009 with an album titled "KavyaNaad" released by HindYugm which had various poems of legendary poets of Hindi literature composed as songs. Then she came up with a solo album of her original songs titled "Kuhoo Kuhoo Bole Koyaliya" in 2010 which had songs in Hindi, Tamil and Sanskrit. Her next album released in early 2011 titled "Mann Jaane - An Odyssey of Love" which got very good reviews specially for the title song sung by her.

She has won the first ever digital music awards from ArtistAloud.com
ArtistAloud.com
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 (Hungama Digital Media
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 Group) in the category "Best Genre - Light Music
Light music
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" for her song "Tujhe Dekha To Aisaa Lagaa Ke". She performed in a unique webcert called "She is a Winner" celebrating Women's Day
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 in 2011 along side artists like Hema Sardesai
Hema Sardesai
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, Sunali Rathod, Sunita Rao, Shibani Kashyap
Shibani Kashyap
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 and many more. Her original and cover songs are played on various radio stations in India
India
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, US & Australia
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. She has contributed vocals to the Anthem for Team India for ICC World Cup 2011 titled "Jeet ka Junoon" which was featured on TV & radio and got viral on the internet.

Her music and her musical journey has been covered by many blogs like "Of Indian Origin", "Lifestyle Blog India, MovieMazaa, vaTvriksha, 2indya.com, Music Business News, ArtistAloud etc and newspapers like Times of India, Hindustan Times, Mumbai Mirror, Pune Mirror, Free Press Journal etc.

Discography of albums

Album Name Language Release Year Label
KaavyaNaad Hindi 2010 HindYugm
Kuhoo Kuhoo Bole Koyaliya Hindi, Tamil, Sanskrit 2010 ArtistAloud.com
ArtistAloud.com
*ArtistAloud.com : Hungama Digital Media announced the launch of www.artistaloud.com, a digital distribution platform for unreleased music created by artistes. The Website which features songs spanning over six genres, becomes a platform for one to spot music of Independent artists.With...

Mann Jaane - An Odyssey of Love Hindi 2011 Sonore Unison
Do Baatein - Conversations with the Soul Hindi 2011 Sonore Unison
Kuhoo Gupta - The Vocal Vigour Hindi 2011 Sonore Unison
Beat of Indian Youth Multilingual 2011-12 (In Progress) Musical Mist & KR Music

Discography of original compositions

Song Album/Single Language Release Year Composer Lyricist Co-Singer(s) Label
Bairiya Kuhoo Kuhoo Bole Koyaliya Hindi 2010 Rishi S Vishwa Deepak NA ArtistAloud.com
ArtistAloud.com
*ArtistAloud.com : Hungama Digital Media announced the launch of www.artistaloud.com, a digital distribution platform for unreleased music created by artistes. The Website which features songs spanning over six genres, becomes a platform for one to spot music of Independent artists.With...

Tujhe Dekha To Aisaa Lagaa Ke Kuhoo Kuhoo Bole Koyaliya Hindi 2010 Venkatesh Sankaran Venkatesh Sankaran NA ArtistAloud.com
ArtistAloud.com
*ArtistAloud.com : Hungama Digital Media announced the launch of www.artistaloud.com, a digital distribution platform for unreleased music created by artistes. The Website which features songs spanning over six genres, becomes a platform for one to spot music of Independent artists.With...

Tum Mile To Meri Kuhoo Kuhoo Bole Koyaliya Hindi 2010 Srinivas Panda Vishwa Deepak Pradip Somasundaram
Pradip Somasundaran
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ArtistAloud.com
ArtistAloud.com
*ArtistAloud.com : Hungama Digital Media announced the launch of www.artistaloud.com, a digital distribution platform for unreleased music created by artistes. The Website which features songs spanning over six genres, becomes a platform for one to spot music of Independent artists.With...

En Anbe Kuhoo Kuhoo Bole Koyaliya Tamil 2010 Kitcha Swamy Kitcha Swamy NA ArtistAloud.com
ArtistAloud.com
*ArtistAloud.com : Hungama Digital Media announced the launch of www.artistaloud.com, a digital distribution platform for unreleased music created by artistes. The Website which features songs spanning over six genres, becomes a platform for one to spot music of Independent artists.With...

Meditation Piece - Puriya Dhanashri Kuhoo Kuhoo Bole Koyaliya Sanskrit 2010 Kuhoo Gupta Traditional Mantras NA ArtistAloud.com
ArtistAloud.com
*ArtistAloud.com : Hungama Digital Media announced the launch of www.artistaloud.com, a digital distribution platform for unreleased music created by artistes. The Website which features songs spanning over six genres, becomes a platform for one to spot music of Independent artists.With...

Ruaan Ruaan - Cry of the Soul Single Hindi 2011 Nitin Dubey Anoop Saxena NA Self
Zeenat Single Hindi 2010 Satish Vammi Vishwa Deepak NA Self
Beshak Single Hindi 2010 Satish Vammi Vishwa Deepak NA Self
Choolena Single Hindi 2011 Murali Sankar Venkatraman Sajeev Sarathie Swati Kanitkar Self
Go Green Single English,Hindi 2010 Balamurali Balamurali, Sajeev Sarathie Juniana Lanning Self
Jeet Ka Junoon Single English, Hindi 2011 Eshwar Ravishankar Sajeev Sarathie Deepesh Krishnamurthy, Tara Balakrishnan Self
Pabanara Single Oriya 2010 Srinivas Panda Saurav Pattanaik NA Self
Kya Haseen Ittefaq Single Hindi 2010 Nitin Dubey Nitin Dubey Unnikrishnan KB Self
Prabhuji Single Hindi 2010 Srinivas Panda Sajeev Sarathie NA Self
Mann Jaane Mann Jaane - An Odyssey of Love, Kuhoo Gupta - The Vocal Vigour Hindi 2011 Rishi S Vishwa Deepak Rishi S Sonore Unison
Mann Jaane (Unplugged) Mann Jaane - An Odyssey of Love, Kuhoo Gupta - The Vocal Vigour Hindi 2011 Rishi S Vishwa Deepak Rishi S Sonore Unison
Supari Mann Jaane - An Odyssey of Love, Kuhoo Gupta - The Vocal Vigour Hindi 2011 Rishi S Vishwa Deepak NA Sonore Unison
Roshnii Do Baatein - Conversations with the Soul, Kuhoo Gupta - The Vocal Vigour Hindi 2011 Rishi S Kuhoo Gupta Rishi S Sonore Unison
Do Baatein (Solo) Do Baatein - Conversations with the Soul, Kuhoo Gupta - The Vocal Vigour Hindi 2011 Rishi S Rishi S NA Sonore Unison
Do Baatein (Duet) Do Baatein - Conversations with the Soul, Kuhoo Gupta - The Vocal Vigour Hindi 2011 Rishi S Rishi S Sriram Emani Sonore Unison
Kaisi Ratiyaan - Reflections of the Soul Do Baatein - Conversations with the Soul, Kuhoo Gupta - The Vocal Vigour Hindi 2011 Rishi S Kuhoo Gupta NA Sonore Unison
Kaisi Ratiyaan - Reflections of the Soul (Mehfil Mix) Do Baatein - Conversations with the Soul, Kuhoo Gupta - The Vocal Vigour Hindi 2011 Rishi S Kuhoo Gupta NA Sonore Unison
Ankhiyan Mein Do Baatein - Conversations with the Soul, Kuhoo Gupta - The Vocal Vigour Hindi 2011 Rishi S Vishwa Deepak NA Sonore Unison
Rap Incense Kuhoo Gupta - The Vocal Vigour Hindi 2011 Rishi S Vishwa Deepak Rishi S Sonore Unison
Punyaat Thandi Vazli Kaa - Lavani Kuhoo Gupta - The Vocal Vigour Hindi, Marathi 2011 Rishi S Vishwa Deepak Sriram Emani, Rishi S Sonore Unison
Ikka Dukka Kuhoo Gupta - The Vocal Vigour Hindi 2011 Rishi S Vishwa Deepak Sriram Emani Sonore Unison
Kabira Kuhoo Gupta - The Vocal Vigour Hindi 2010 Rishi S Traditional (Kabir) NA Sonore Unison
Jo Tum Aa Jaate Ek Baar KaavyaNaad Hindi 2010 Srinivas Panda Traditional (Mahadevi Varma) NA HindYugm
Beat of Indian Youth - Theme Song Beat of Indian Youth Hindi 2011 Krishna Raaj Sajeev Sarathie Unnikrishnan KB, Pratibha Parthasarathy Musical Mist & KR Music
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