Nanditha (singer)
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Nanditha is a singer in the Kannada film industry. She is a software engineer
Software engineer
A software engineer is an engineer who applies the principles of software engineering to the design, development, testing, and evaluation of the software and systems that make computers or anything containing software, such as computer chips, work.- Overview :...

 by profession. She was formerly working with Cisco
Cisco
Cisco may refer to:Companies:*Cisco Systems, a computer networking company* Certis CISCO, corporatised entity of the former Commercial and Industrial Security Corporation in Singapore...

 systems. But because of her love for the music she has given up her information technology
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

 profession and now fully into music. She is a veena
Veena
Veena may refer to one of several Indian plucked instruments:With frets*Rudra veena, plucked string instrument used in Hindustani music*Saraswati veena, plucked string instrument used in Carnatic musicFretless...

 player too and has passed the veena vidhwat exam. Her musical career started as a track singer for music director Hamsalekha. Hamsalekha gave her the first break in his film Habba in 1998. She went to R. V. College of Engineering in Bangalore
Bangalore
Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...

, Karnataka.

She has worked with many big names in the music industry like Ilayaraja, Manomurthy, Hamsalekha, V Manohar, Rajesh Ramanath and many more. She has won the Karnataka
Karnataka
Karnataka , the land of the Kannadigas, is a state in South West India. It was created on 1 November 1956, with the passing of the States Reorganisation Act and this day is annually celebrated as Karnataka Rajyotsava...

 state award for three consecutive times and she is the only singer so far from Karnataka to achieve that. She has established herself as a dubbing
Dubbing (music)
In sound recording, dubbing is the transfer or copying of previously recorded audio material from one medium to another of the same or a different type. It may be done with a machine designed for this purpose, or by connecting two different machines: one to play back and one to record the signal...

 artist too. She has dubbed for hit films like Nanna Preetiya Hudugi (for deepa), Paris Pranaya (for Minal patel). She has won many filmfare awards. She recently won the south Indian filmfare award for the best female singer for the song Kariya I love you from Duniya.

Famous Songs

Some of her songs are
  • Idu modalane hadu (Matadana)
  • Moodal kunigal kere (Nanna preetiya hudugi)
  • Jeerjimbe jeerjimbe (Manasella neene)
  • Akashakke obba soorya (Jogula)- State award for this song
  • Ede tumbi hadidenu (Paris pranaya)-State award for this song
  • Moda modalu (Yeshwant)
  • Akka (Kallarali Hoovagi
    Kallarali Hoovagi
    Kallarali Hoovagi is an Indian Kannada language film directed by T.S. Nagabharana. The film, based on a novel of the same name by B L Venu, is a fictitious love story set in Chitradurga kingdom during the reign of Madakari Nayaka, one of the Palegars of Chitradurga...

    )-State award for this song
  • Sihi gali (Aa dinagalu
    Aa Dinagalu
    Aa Dinagalu is a 2007 Indian Kannada film based on the book Daadaagiriya Dinagalu by Agni Shridhar. The film is about the rowdyism that prevailed in Bengaluru during 1986.-The plot:...

    )
  • Kariya i love you (Duniya)
  • Hoo kanasa jokali (Inthi Ninna Preethiya
    Inthi Ninna Preethiya
    Inthi Ninna Preethiya is a 2008 Kannada film directed by Soori, under the Suri Talkies banner. The film stars Srinagar Kitty, Bhavana and Sonu in pivotal roles. The soundtrack of the film was composed by Sadhu Kokila...

    )

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