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Anurag Kulkarni

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Origin
  
Hyderabad, India

Instruments
  
VocalsPiano

Occupation(s)
  
playback singer

Years active
  
2015–present

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Born
  
7 June 1993 (age 23). (
1993-06-07
)


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Anurag Kulkarni is a playback singer from Hyderabad, who recently made his debut in Telugu Film Industry. He got into fame after winning first prize in Idea Super Singer Season 8 (2015) which is a popular show in MAA TV.

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Personal life

Anurag Kulkarni FileAnurag Kulkarni winning the title of Idea Super Singer Season 8

He started learning Hindustani classical music with late Sri.Kakunoori jangaiah ji, a renowned Hindustani vocalist and guru in Hyderabad. He learnt for over 3 years where he was introduced to kirana gharana style of singing. He aspires to become playback singer and pianist.

His Journey

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On 24 January 2015, he won the biggest reality show in both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh states called Idea Super Singer Season 8. The chief judges for this show were shri M. M. Keeravani and Padma Shri K. S. Chitra. The show also featured many telugu cinema musicians as guest judges.

Anurag Kulkarni Paduta Teeyaga New Youth Series Anurag KulkarniHyderabad YouTube

After completing B.Tech in Computer Science, he worked for a software multinational company for six months. He left the job in October 2015 to pursue his interest in music.
Currently he is a playback singer in Telugu Film Industry. He is studying western classical music under Mr.Joseph thomas,a piano teacher based in hyderabad.

Achievements

  • Runner-up of Gemini TV’s singing reality show Bol Baby Bol Gurukul in 2014.
  • Won competition held at Pandit Motiram Pandit Maniram Sangeet Samaroh and received scholarship from padma vibhushan shri pandit jasraj on 1 December 2013 at Chowmahalla Palace, Hyderabad and performed in the samaroh's evening concert.
  • Performed at the great historic place, “Salar Jung Museum” in a concert named “Taskeen” and felicitated as outstanding emerging sufi singer by an N.G.O named “Young”, a youth organization.
  • Runner-up of the competition “Idea Rocks India” Held by Idea cellular and was a Part of the concert of “Shankar Ehsaan Loy”, the Bollywood music trio.
  • Won a competition Held at Pandit Motiram Pandit Maniram Sangeet Samaroh on 1 December 2012 at Centre for Cultural Resources and Training (CCRT) ,Hyderabad and performed in the samaroh's evening concert.
  • Took part in Telugu cinema vajrothsavalu (The 75th year/Diamond jubilee celebrations of telugu film industry) with the troupe of 'Little musicians academy’, Hyderabad.
  • Participated and reached to top 9 in a reality show of ETV Telugu named 'Saptaswaralu ' in 2008.

    • Songs

    Baby DollHyper · 2016
    Mellaga TellarindoiShatamanam Bhavati · 2016
    Ism

    References

    Anurag Kulkarni Wikipedia
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