Anuradha bhat biography

Anuradha Bhat was born into a family that has no musical background. Her father Srikrishna Bhat, a retired mechanical professional and her mother Gayathri Srikrishna, a homemaker are both ardent music lovers. Her younger sister Anupama Bhat is a popular TV anchor/actor.

Anuradha Bhat was an allrounder right from her childhood days. Schooling and fine-arts went hand in hand where she excelled in all her subjects of interest. She did very well in her academics and went on to get the B.SC. & MBA degrees. She received training for Bharathnatyam from Mrs. Kamala Bhat and completed her Proficiency (Vidwath) in Bharathnatyam. She also got trained for Carnatic classical vocal, devotional and light music singing from Late. Sri. M. Srinath Marathe. She learnt Veena recital from Mrs. Ranganayaki Varadarajan. She also took voice-culture lessons from the legendary composer Sri Rajan (Rajan-Nagendra fame).

Profile
Anuradha Bhat is a versatile Indian playback singer who has lent her voice for more than 1000 songs in Kannada, Tamil, Telugu & Tulu feature films. She has also rendered several non-film songs of different genres in 16 different languages with more than 5000 songs to her credit. She has performed in several live shows across the globe. She is the recipient of several prestigious awards like the Filmfare Award (South), Karnataka State Film Award , Radio Mirchi Music Award, Aryabhata International Award and many more.

Anuradha Bhat was first spotted in ETV Kannada’s "Yedhe Thumbi Haaduvenu - Anveshane", a talent hunt programme, where she got selected to sing several duets along with her singing idol DR. S. P. Balasubrahmanyam. She was then called for an audition by the renowned Music Director Sri Hamsalekha and was offered to sing for the background score of the movie "Nenapirali".

Playback singing
Anuradha Bhat emerged as a full-fledged playback singer through her song "Vasantha Vasantha" for the movie “Meera Madhava Raghava” (2007) under the music dire

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Indian playback singer

Musical artist

Anuradha Bhat is an Indian playback singer who predominantly works in Kannada language films. She has sung over 100 songs for feature films and also sung in various private musical albums.

Early life and background

Anuradha Bhat was born to Sri krishna Bhat and Gayatri Bhat in Mangalore, Dakshina Kannada, Karnataka. Anuradha has a younger sister, Anupama Bhat who is a television host (TV anchor) and actor.

Anuradha Bhat received her primary education from Carmel school and later from premier institutes like Canara College and MSNM Besant PG Institute of Management Studies (both affiliated to Mangalore University)

Career

Anuradha Bhat has worked in several non-film albums, remix songs, TV serials, children’s songs and rhymes. "Chinnu – Series of Kannada Animated Rhymes" . She also sung and featured in video single "Naa haaduve nimagaagiye" A compilation of few of her popular songs - “Anuradha Bhat mashup” is another video song that features her. "Navilugari" is yet another non-film song that she has rendered alongside Rajesh Krishnan.

Discography

This is a partial list of notable films where Anuradha Bhat has worked as a playback singer.

Live performances and concerts

Anuradha Bhat has performed at various events Hampi Utsav, Mysore Dasara, Yuva Dasara, Mysore Winter Festival, Vishwa Kannada Sammelana and Bengaluru Ganesh Utsava (BGU)

She also performed in various countries namely United States of America (USA),London (UK), Netherlands (Europe), Australia,Africa, Hong Kong, UAE,Oman,Qatar,^[28]