Usha

                                          Present – 1999

                                                  Telugu

                  Usha (born might twenty nine, 1980), famed professionally as singer usha, may be a telugu playback singer. in a very career spanning regarding ten years, she has established herself collectively of the leading playback singers in telugu screenland and has worked with several major music administrators. 

Life

Usha got married in 2005 to us based mostly technologist and migrated to Virginia , us. she is shuttling between us and bharat to pursue her passion of singing.
 
Usha could be a post graduate in pc applications from osmania university.
 
Usha's personal music albums "toonega toonega" and "usharugaa" became terribly sure-fire.
 
Usha rendered her voice to around 450 telugu film songs and 600 personal songs (including devotionals).
  

Career

Music Competitions : 

                 Usha began her singing career with "paadutha teeyaga", a music primarily based program on eenadu tv hosted by legendary singer sri. sp balasubramanyam. she stood initial within the competition and later followed up by winning another music contest titled "navaragam" on gemini tv.

                Usha participated in numerous music-related shows on tv between 1996 and 2000. her performance in "endaro mahanubhavlu" on gemini tv won her appreciation and approval from the audience. she later participated in "meri awaz suno" on star tv and was one amongst the finalists within the all-india finals. she additionally participated in numerous hindi programs on channels like eltv and letter tv. 

Movie Career : 

                Usha got her maiden chance from sri. vandemataram srinivas , noted musician. her initial song was from the motion picture illalu. she got her major break in telugu screenland in 2000. she panax quinquefolius numerouschart busters for telugu movies like indr a, chiruta , athidi , pourudu , varsham , bhadra , chitram , nuvvu nenu , manasantha nuvve , nuvvu leka nenu lenu , jayam , santhosham , nee sneham , avunanna kadanna and lots of additional

 Concerts :

              Usha has performed in near a hundred and fifty concerts worldwide. excluding her own solo concerts, she has performed aboard legendary singers and musicians like sri. sp balasubramanyam , shankar mahadevan , hariharan , mani Sharma , p. suseela and mano among several others. her biggest accomplishment was acting with sri. sp balasubramanyam at the continent games gap ceremony in 2003 in hyderabad.

2003 : Performed at afro-asian games held in india along with sri. sp balasubramanyam .

2007 : Most recently performed for "santosham film awards" function in dubai .

2003 & 2007 : Music concerts for tana (telugu association of north america)

2006 : Music concerts for ata (american telugu association)

Various music concerts and fund-raisers across india , us, singapore, uk and uae.

2002 : Performed at wtf (world telugu federation) in singapore in december . 

Tv Programmes:

2006 : Stood top 4th in sa re ga ma pa first series of [zee telugu] channel 


2010 : Participated in music based program zee telugu "sa re ga ma pa" nuvva nena as a challenger for the new teams.

Mentor for the music based program gemini "star of ap" little champs.

Presented his beautiful voice upto semi-final episode of "padalani vundi" music program on maa tv hosted by sp balasubramanyam.

Numerous appearances in interviews and music related programs across various south indian channels including eenadu television , gemini tv , maa tv , zee telugu , tv9 (telugu) and others.  

Awards

Nandi Awards:

2006 : Best female playback singer (tv category) for tv film song "bommarillu podarillu"

2002 : Best female playback singer for "chinuku tadiki" song from nee sneham

2001 : Best female playback singer for "kallu teravani" song from padma 

Other Awards :

2008 : American telugu association (ata) excellence award .

2005 : Ugadi puraskar award from madras telugu academy .

"Guest of honor" for felicitation of legendary singer smt. asha bhosle.


2004 : Gold medal from padma mohana arts .

2003 : P. suseela award for outstanding singer.

2003 : Alapana award for best female playback singer.

2003 : Eenadu tv award for best female playback singer.

2003 : Felicitated by tana (telugu association of north america) .

2002 : Cinemaa and sivaranjani award for best female playback singer .

2002 : Kalavedika art and yuva kala vahini awards for best female playback singer.

2002 : Vamsi berkeley award for best female playback singer.

2001 &2002 : European telugu association (eta) award for best female playback singer.

2002 : Felicitated by eta (european telugu association)

2002 : Felicitated by kala sravanthi in .

2001 &2002 : Ap cinegoers” award for best female playback singer.

“vaartha vaasavi” award for best female playback singer in 2001.

2000 : Bharata-muni award for best female playback singer award .

2000 : Felicitated at bharat cultural integration by renowned actor dr. akkineni nageswara rao .