Sunitha (Telugu singer)

Singer

Birthday May 10, 1968

Birth Sign Taurus

Birthplace Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India

Age 55 years old

Nationality India

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Sunitha Upadrashta is an Indian playback singer and voice actor who primarily works in Telugu films.

She is a recipient of nine Nandi Awards and two Filmfare Awards South in various categories.

She also received a National Award from All India Radio under light music category when she was 15 years old.

1975

Gautamiputra Satakarni is her 750th movie as a dubbing artist in which she gave her voice to Shriya Saran.

Her top 10 movies as a voice-over artist include Choodalani Vundi, Ninne Premista, Nuvvu Vastavani, Shankar Dada MBBS, Manmadhudu, Sri Ramadasu, Nenunnanu, Anand, Godavari, Jayam.

Selective works of singer Sunitha as a playback singer listed below

Sunitha sang title songs for various Television serials and also lent her voice as a dubbing artist for the TV series Andam.

Sunitha was part of numerous private album recordings.

Meera padavali and Aanota – Manasu palike vela are her two most known works composed by her Guru Kalaga Krishna Mohan.

She also featured in the private album Sri Ramachandra Krupalu, a bhajan by Tulsi Das and produced by sunithanmusic.com.

Chandrashekara Ashtakam also takes a special mention for which music is composed by Sai Madhukar.

1978

Sunitha was born on 10 May 1978 in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh.

At the age of 6, she got training in music from Shri Pemmaraju Surya Rao in Carnatic Vocal and Light music from Kalaga Krishna Mohan.

At a very early age, she got many opportunities to participate and perform in several concerts, including programs featured by All India Radio.

At the age of 13, she also participated in Tyagaraja Aradhana Utsavalu along with her Guru Pemaraju Surya Rao.

She received numerous awards and appreciations in various competitions for her performances as a child prodigy, one of the special mentions is her scholarship from Central Government to pursue her musical trainings.

She belongs to a music-loving family and her parents are fond of music.

She got married at the age of 19 to Kiran Kumar Goparaju who works in the media and they later got divorced.

The couple has two children Akash and Shreya.

Shreya sang her debut song, "Tick... Tick... Tick..."

in Telugu movie Savyasachi.

In January 2021, Sunitha married a businessman Rama Krishna Veerapaneni in the presence of her family members and close friends.

Sunitha has begun her singing career as a playback singer in films at an age of 17.

Sashi 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 Seetharama Sastry.

1995

Sunitha's commercial singing career began in the year 1995 with the movie Gulabi.

1997

She sang a single card for the Kannada film Bhoomi Geetha in 1997, music composed by Ilayaraja.

Apart from that she also sang Telugu TV serial title songs such as Ruturagalu and Antarangalu.

1998

Sunitha stepped in to the world of dubbing quite unwillingly after release of the movie Choodalani Undi in the year 1998 starring Mega star Chiranjeevi and Soundarya, in which she gave her voice to Soundarya.

She achieved a very rare feat as a voice-over artist in Telugu film industry with a record breaking contribution of lending voice to 110+ actresses spread across 750+ films.

She also holds a record of giving her voice for 60 movies in a single year.

1999

She received her first Nandi award in the year 1999 and bagged Nandi Awards in a row for the years 2002 to 2006 and again for the years 2010 to 2012.

Countries include USA (almost every year since 1999), UK, UAE, Singapore, Malaysia, Uganda, Nigeria, Tanzania, South Africa, Australia, Scotland, Ireland, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Japan, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Mauritius.

She received her first Nandi Award from the combined state of Andhra Pradesh for singing title song of Antharangalu in 1999.

She has worked under the supervision of music directors like Ilayaraja, Vidyasagar, M.M. Keeravani, A.R Rahman, S.V. Krishna Reddy, Koti, Raj, Vandematharam Srinivas, Mani Sharma, Ramana Gogula, S.A. Raj Kumar, Sandeep Choutha, Mickey J. Mayer, Devisri Prasad, R.P. Patnaik, Chakri, Nihal, Kalyani Malik, Anup Rubens, Sunil Kashyap, Saluri Vasu Rao, Madhavapeddi Suresh, Saketha Sairam, Bunty, V. Harikrishna, Jassie Gift, S. Thaman, etc. She rendered nearly 3000 songs in many south Indian films.

She has sung in Telugu, Tamil, and Kannada.

2011

She was also honored with Lata Mangeshkar Best Singer Award for 2011 by the Government of Andhra Pradesh.

2015

She is also known as an anchor and host for music based programs and flagship programs, one among them was anchoring the historical Amaravati foundation-laying ceremony in the year 2015.

Sunitha is also associated as a judge to musical reality shows in various channels, among them Padutha Theeyaga, a musical show that has been running for the last two decades on ETV which was launched and hosted by S. P. Balasubrahmanyam.

Her contributions are widely noted as a voice-over artist giving voice to over 110 actresses in more than 750 films.

Sunitha traveled extensively across 19 foreign countries as an artist.