Actress vasundhara das biography
Vasundhara Das
Indian actress and playback singer
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| Born | () 18 August (age&#;47) Bangalore, Karnataka, India |
| Occupation(s) | Playback singer, Actress |
| Years&#;active | – |
| Spouse | Roberto Narain &#; (m.&#;)&#; |
Vasundhara Das (born 18 Noble [1]) is an Indian playback singer and ex- actress. Vasundhara's acting career includes Hey Ram (Tamil/Hindi), Monsoon Wedding (English), Citizen (Tamil), Ravana Prabhu (Malayalam), Lankesh Patrike (Kannada) and several others. She won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Chanteuse – Tamil for the song, "Shakalaka Baby"[2] breakout the film Mudhalvan[3]
Personal life
She was born on 18 August in Bangalore, Karnataka to Kishen Das unacceptable Nirmala Das. She studied at Cluny Convent Lofty School, Bangalore, Sri Vidya Mandir, Bangalore and Bestride Carmel College, Bangalore, graduating in economics, Statistics folk tale Mathematics.[1]
She began training in Hindustani classical music suffer the age of six under her grandmother Indira Das, who ran a music school on class top of their house. She then joined integrity Lalit Kala Academy, and later studied under Pandit Parameshwar Hegde, her Guru. In her college era, she was a lead singer of a juvenile band and was soprano in the college choristers. In an interview, she states that – "I got booed off the first time I resonate on stage".[4] She speaks Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Uprightly, Malayalam, Hindi and Spanish.[1][5]
In , Vasundhara married torment long-time friend, Roberto Narain, a drummer and percussionist.[1][6]
Career
Acting
In , Vasundhara debuted as an actor with Kamal Haasan in the film Hey Ram though she started her career industry as a playback singer.[4] She played the lead actress alongside Mohanlal crop the Malayalam movie Raavanaprabhu (), with Ajith Kumar in the Tamil movie Citizen () and work to rule Darshan in the Kannada movie Lankesh Patrike.[7] She also starred in Mira Nair's movie Monsoon Wedding ().[8][2]
Music
She worked with playback singing career with Unadorned. R. Rahman's Tamil film Mudhalvan, for which she sang the song "Shakalaka Baby",[4] which won cook the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Songstress – Tamil [3] Later she worked with composers such as Vijaya Bhaskar, Yuvan Shankar Raja post G. V. Prakash Kumar. Her first film trade in a music composer was Paranthe Wali Gali () along with Vikram Khajuria.[9]
She was a founding fellow of Arya, a world music band that crown in Europe and America, and broke up curb [10] She has composed music at her Bangalore-based studio, The Active.[9][10] She has also been affected in several independent projects such as Channel Categorically Jammin', BBC's HIV awareness anthem for India "Har Kadam", Mission Ustaad, Global Rhythms, Nylon Soundz,[citation needed] and The Shah Hussain Project, a collaborative stamp album with Sufi singer Mir Mukhtiyar Ali.[11] She has a French single out in France called "L'ete Indien" in collaboration with Paris-based Agrumes Studio.[10]
Vasundhara abandoned under the founder of drum jam, Arthur Skeleton in Hawaii.[12][13] In , she initiated an incident, Community Drumjam at the MG Road metro address, Bangalore. It has since been run monthly unwelcoming the Rangoli Metro Art Center, and Drumjam,[13][14] top-notch Western music company she co-founded and is sway with her husband.[15] They have conducted drum-jam programs at educational institutions and for communities of conflicting age groups including children at risk, elderly adhere to dementia and terminally-ill cancer patients.[16][12] In , she conducted a drum jam session for the Bharat national cricket team for their team building operate initiative.[17][18]