Nanditha (singer)


Nanditha 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. Since then, she has won numerous awards including the Karnataka State Film Awards and Filmfare Awards South for her singing.

Early life

Nanditha completed her BE 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. She is also a trained veena player. 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, Paris Pranaya. 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.Till date,she has sung in more than 500 movies in Kannada,Telugu,Tamil,Malayalam which add upto 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"
  • "Akka"
  • "Sihi Gali"
  • "Kariya I Love You"
  • "Hoo Kanasa Jokali"
  • "Baara Sanihake Baara"
  • "Habba Habba"
  • "Idu Modalane Haadu"
  • "O Missamma"
  • "Oh Kencha "
  • "O Hrudaya"
  • "Preethisu Ba"
  • "Yaaro"
  • "Neenendare Nanage Ishta Kano"
  • "Neenu Banda Mele"
  • "Akashakke Obba"
  • "Yede Tumbi"

Awards

Karnataka State Film Awards
Filmfare Awards South
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