Sunitha Upadrashta is playback singer, anchor and dubbing artist in the Telugu Film industry, also known as Tollywood.

She has been recommended as a top-singer successful cheers from the stalwarts like Sri S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, M. Balamuralikrishna, Smt. P. Suseela, Smt.S. Janaki, and others. She works as a singer, as a dubbing artiste, and as an Anchor to various channels who conduct musical programmes. She has worked as a dubbing artiste in almost 500 movies in 8 years.

Personal life

Sunita was born into a Telugu Brahmin family.Her mother and father Sri Upadrasta Narasimha Rao and Smt. Sumathi are well known to songs fans at Vijayawada and Guntur. She was wedded at the age of 19 in 1997. Her husband Kiran performs as a media professional. The couple have two kids, a boy known as Akash and a girl known as Shreya.

Career

She has began her Cultural pursuit at a very early age of 3 years and got coaching in Songs from Pemaraju Surya Rao in Karnatic Oral and Light music from Kalaga Krishna Mohan for 8 years. She won several ‘prizes’ and ‘praises’ in various contests ranking first and Gold Medals. Sunitha, at her very younger age of 10 years, attended Tyagaraja Aradhana Utsavalu along with her guru Sri Pemmaraju Surya Rao garu.

She joined as a play back singer in Movies at her beginning age of 15 years. Sri Sasi Preetham, a music director has first provided her a opportunity to sing in the movie ‘Gulabi’ and her first movie songs is ‘Ee vela lo Neevu’ written by Sirivennela Sitaramasastri.

She has worked with music directors such as Ilayaraja, Vidya sagar, M.M. Keeravani, S.V. Krishna Reddy, Koti, Raj, Vandematharam Srinivas, Mani Sharma, Ramana Gogula, S.A. Raj kumar, Sandeep choutha, Micky-J-Mayor, Devisri Prasad, R.P. Patnaik, Chakri, Nihal, Kalyani Malik, Anup, Sunil Kashyap, Saluri Vasu Rao, Madhavapeddi Suresh, Saketha Sairam, bunty etc.… There are so many extremely hit songs to her credit. She rendered nearly 3000 songs, in movies. She has also sang songs in Kannada, Tamil and Malayalam 'languages'.

Sunitha has visited overseas substantially as a singer and stated Worldwide identification.[citation needed] She was welcomed to Telugu Organization of Northern The united states –TANA in 1999, 2001. For TANA 1999 she was a aspect of the troop with Nagarjuna, RamyaKrishna and Tabu.

Dubbing artist

She has given voice for various artists like Anushka, Bhoomika, Charmi, Laila, Meera Jasmine, Soundarya, Sonali Bendre, Shriya, Genelia, Sneha, Sada, Katrina Kaif, Tamannaah, Trisha, Kamilini Mukherji,etc.

Anchor

She anchored many music based programmes and live shows on Gemini TV, MAA TV, ETV and Doordarshan

Awards

• National Award from All India Radio under light music category in 1994 at the age of 15 years.
• Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer - Kannada (2010)

Nandi Awards

• Best female playback singer for TV film Antha Rangaalu 1999
• Best Female dubbing artist for the movie Jayam 2002
• Best Female playback singer for the Movie Athade Oka Sainyam 2003
• Best Female dubbing artist for the movie Anand (Voice of the Kamalinee Mukherjee) 2005
• Best Female dubbing artist for the movie Pothe Poni 2005
• Best Female playback singer for the movie Godavari 2006
• Best female playback singer for TV film Anthahpuram 2010
• Best Female dubbing artist for the movie Sri Rama Rajyam (Voice of the Nayantara)2012