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Gurukiran
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Gurukiran Shetty, known mononymously as Gurukiran, is an Indian film actor and playback singer, music director of the Kannada film industry in India. He started his career as a music director of the Kannada movie A, directed and acted by Upendra. His music for his next movie Upendra further consolidated his position in Kannada movie industry. He is a native of Mangalore and hails from Bunt Family. His mother tongue is Tulu. He has also acted in several movies in supporting character roles and also sung several songs and also composed in Tamil, Telugu and Tulu movies.
Person · Open Library
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Top works
- Flower Coloring Book for Adults
- Number Tracing Book for Kids 3-5 Yrs
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Film & TV
Mangalore, Karnataka, India
Gurukiran Shetty is an Indian music director, singer, and an actor popularly known for his work in Kannada cinema. He made his debut as a musician in the Kannada film industry in 1998 with the movie A directed by Upendra. Gurukiran won the Best Music Director Award at the Udaya Film Awards of 1998 and since then has delivered several hit albums. He won consecutive Filmfare Awards for the movies…
Known for
- Weekend With Ramesh — Himself2014
- Auto Shankar2005
- Kutumba2003
- Upendra — Nayar1999
- Beda Krishna Ranginata1994
- Saagara Deepa1994
- Nishkarsha1993
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Karnataka
Discography
- A1998
- Upendra1999
- Appu2002
- Chandu (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)2002
- Dhumm2002
- Hollywood (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)2002
- Nandi2002
- Kariya2003
- Kutumba2003
- Omkara2004
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Listeners · Last.fm
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Gurukiran is a prolific young music director in the Kannada Film Industry, Sandalwood. He rose to fame by scoring amazing tunes to early Upendra films like A and Upendra. His recent effort Jogi starring ShivRaj Kumar has broken record sales. Gurukiran hails from South Canara in Karnataka and we can see influences of Carnatic Classical, folk, Westren mainstream music (Pop Rock and Hip Hop) and ambient music. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Gurukiran">Read more on Last.fm</a>
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Gurukiran Shetty, known mononymously as Gurukiran, is an Indian film actor and playback singer, music director of the Kannada film industry in India. He started his career as a music director of the Kannada movie A, directed and acted by Upendra. His music for his next movie Upendra further consolidated his position in Kannada movie industry. He is a native of Mangalore and hails from Bunt Family. His mother tongue is Tulu. He has also acted in several movies in supporting character roles and also sung several songs and also composed in Tamil, Telugu and Tulu movies.
==Career== Gurukiran entered the film industry as an actor before becoming a music director. He had sung many songs in Kannada films in his own composition as well as others."Kanasina Maratta" song sung by him, is a big hit in Banna Bannada Loka ; Thomas Rathnam directed the music.
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