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Also known as Gurukiran Shetty

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.

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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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