Geetha Madhuri

Geetha Madhuri Sonti
Birth name Geetha Madhuri Sonti
Origin Palakol (Andhra Pradesh), India
Occupation(s) Singer, composer,dubbing artist
Website Geetha Madhuri

Geetha Madhuri Sonti is an award winning Indian playback singer and dubbing artist who works primarily in tollywood.[1] She became famous with the song "ninne ninne" from the movie nachavule for which she won Nandi Award as the best female playback singer. She also won a filmfare award for "magaallu", a song from golimaar movie as the best female playback singer. She has participated in aMAA TV show called "Super Singer".

Early life

Geetha was born to Prabhakar and Lakshmi. Her father Prabhakar is an SBH official and Madhuri is their only daughter. They moved from Godavari region to Hyderabad when she was very young. She completed her schooling from Loyola, Vanasthalipuram, Hyderabad. Since childhood, she kept practicing singing. Her parents arranged training in classical and light music, initially under Smt. Kocharlakota Padmavati Garu, then under Ramachari Garu in little musicians academy. She was the semi finalist in SYE singers challenge(Musical show) which was conducted by the ETV Telugu channel.

Geetha made her debut as playback singer with Kulasekhar's film Premalekha Rasa.[2]

Personal life

Geetha married actor Ananda Krishna Nandu on 9 February 2014 at Nagole. Nandu, who grew to fame as Ajith in 100% Love (2011 film), shared screen space with Madhuri in a short film 'Adithi'.[3][4]

Awards and nomination

References

  1. "Interview with Geeta Madhuri". idlebrain. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
  2. Geeta Madhuri interview – Telugu Cinema interview – Telugu film playback singer. Idlebrain.com. Retrieved on 5 January 2014.
  3. Singer Geetha Madhuri to marry Nandu – Times Of India. Articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com (16 May 2013). Retrieved on 5 January 2014.
  4. Aditi Short Film ( Geetha Madhuri & Nandu Maddy ) on YouTube (28 September 2013). Retrieved on 5 January 2014.
  5. "56th Idea Filmfare Awards Nominations". Reachouthyderabad.com. Retrieved 29 February 2012.
  6. "Nandi awards 2008 announced – Telugu cinema news". Idlebrain.com. 24 October 2008. Retrieved 29 February 2012.
  7. "Santosham film awards 2009 – Telugu cinema function". Idlebrain.com. 21 August 2009. Retrieved 29 February 2012.
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  9. "South Scope Awards Function". Supergoodmovies.com. 20 September 2010. Retrieved 29 February 2012.
  10. "IndiaGlitz - 'Baahubali' and 'Thani Oruvan' dominate IIFA Awards 2016 - Tamil Movie News". www.indiaglitz.com. Retrieved 2016-01-25.

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