Nanditha (singer)

Nanditha Rakesh
Background information
Born (1978-02-28) 28 February 1978[1]
OriginChannarayapatna taluk, Hassan district, Karnataka, India
GenresFilmi, Carnatic Music, Sugama Sangeetha
OccupationSinger
Instrument(s)Vocals, Veena
Years active1998–present

Nanditha Rakesh (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.[2] 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.[3]

Early life

Nanditha completed her BE from R V College of Engineering (RVCE), Bangalore. She worked as a software engineer for Cisco systems for some time.[4] She left the job and got involved fully into music. She is also a trained veena player.[5][6] Her musical career started as a track singer for music director Hamsalekha. He gave her the first break in his film Habba in 1998.[7]

Career

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).[8] She has won filmfare award for best female singer for the song Kariya I love you from Duniya.[9]

She has performed all over India, Singapore, USA, Muscat and 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 up to over 2000 movie songs. She has also sung over 5000 devotional, folk, sugam Sangeetha songs in over 9 languages.

Music Direction

Nanditha made her debut as a music director in 2018 with the movie NANAGISHTA. She has also composed for the movie PREETHI KELI SNEHA KALEDUKOLLABEDI.[10][11]

Reality Shows

Nanditha has served as a judge on several Kannada reality singing competitions including:

  • Confident Star Singer* on Asianet Suvarna[12]
  • Sangeetha Mahayuddha on Udaya TV[13]
  • Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Championship on Zee Kannada[14]

Notable songs

Some of her songs are

Awards

Karnataka State Film Awards

  • 2002: Best Female Playback Singer for "Bili Bannada Gini" from Gandhada Gombe[15]
  • 2003: Best Female Playback Singer for "Ede Tumbi Hadidenu" from Paris Pranaya
  • 2004: Best Female Playback Singer for "Aakashake Obba" from Jogula[16]
  • 2009: Best Female Playback Singer for "Baanige Bhaskara Chanda" from Mandakini[17]

Filmfare Awards South

Udaya Film Awards

  • 2007: Best Female Playback Singer for "Kariya I Love You" from Duniya[19]

Suvarna Film Awards

  • 2007: Best Female Playback Singer for "Kariya I Love You" from Duniya

Other awards

  • 2008: Favorite Singer at SFM Kalaa Awards[20]

References

  1. ^ "Happy Birthday Nanditha!!! - Sandalwood News & Gossips". Bharatstudent.
  2. ^ "Nanditha ties the knot - Deccan Herald". Archived from the original on 4 July 2015. Retrieved 12 March 2013.
  3. ^ "Winners of the 68th Filmfare Awards South (Telugu) 2023 | Filmfare.com". www.filmfare.com. Retrieved 24 June 2025.
  4. ^ "SINGER NANDITHA TURNS COMPOSER". Times Of India. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
  5. ^ ""Hamsalekha sir has been like a parent to me all along," says singer Nanditha on the cusp of a comeback". The Times of India. 11 June 2021. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 24 June 2025.
  6. ^ "Singer Nanditha turns composer". The Times of India. 17 April 2017. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 24 June 2025.
  7. ^ "It's a baby boy for singer Nanditha". Times Of India. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  8. ^ "Aa Parisninda Mp3 Song Download". PendJatt.Com.Se. Retrieved 24 June 2025.
  9. ^ "Spotlight on young talents". Deccan Herald. Retrieved 21 June 2010.
  10. ^ "Preethi Keli Sneha Kaledukollabedi Movie Review". Retrieved 23 June 2025.
  11. ^ "Nangishta Full Cast & Crew". Retrieved 23 June 2025.
  12. ^ "Suvarna to host Kannada version of Asianet's 'Star Singer'". Retrieved 23 June 2025.
  13. ^ "21ನೇ ಸಂಗೀತ ಮಹಾಯುದ್ಧ ಆರಂಭ". Retrieved 23 June 2025.
  14. ^ "Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Championship". Retrieved 23 June 2025.
  15. ^ "Karnataka State Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer", Wikipedia, 28 March 2025, retrieved 24 June 2025
  16. ^ "Karnataka State Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer", Wikipedia, 28 March 2025, retrieved 24 June 2025
  17. ^ "Nanditha kannada Song Lyrics | kannada Lyrics by Singer Nanditha". www.indiankalakar.com. Retrieved 24 June 2025.
  18. ^ "Filmfare Awards Kannada 2008 Winners". Retrieved 23 June 2025.
  19. ^ "Sunfeast Udaya Film Awards". Retrieved 23 June 2025.
  20. ^ "Raghu Dixit, Nandita win at SFM Kalaa Awards". radioandmusic.com. 27 January 2009. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
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