Latha, commonly known as Latha Hamsalekha, is an Indian playback singer in

Kannada Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native s ...

. She is the wife of composer

Hamsalekha Gangaraju (born June 23, 1951), professionally known as Hamsalekha, is an Indian film composer and a songwriter who works in South Indian cinema, predominantly in the Kannada film industry since the late 1980s. He is also a screenplay writer, di ...

. For her song ''Aa Arunodaya Chanda'' in the movie ''Arunodaya'', Latha was awarded the

Karnataka State Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer Karnataka State Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer is a state film award of the Indian state of Karnataka given during the annual Karnataka State Film Awards. The award honours female singers for their work Kannada language films. Super ...

in 1999–2000.

Personal life

Latha was born in Bangalore to Mitrananda Kumar and Sharada. She married

and they have a son and two daughters.

Career

Latha first became an orchestra singer in ‛Gaana Sharada’ troupe, owned by Hamsalekha's elder brother G. Balakrishna. Then started her career as playback singer through the hit song ''Nodamma Hudugi'' in the movie

Premaloka ''Premaloka'' in Kannada (), ''Paruva Ragam'' in Tamil (), is a 1987 bilingual romantic musical film, written and directed by V. Ravichandran in his directorial debut based on the 1982 movie ''Grease 2''. He additionally served as the lead actor ...

in 1987. Most of her songs are recorded by Hamsalekha. Some of her hit songs including "Hasiru Gajina Balegale" (

Avane Nanna Ganda ''Avane Nanna Ganda'' is a 1989 Kannada-language film starring Kashinath and Sudharani. The film was directed by S. Umesh and K. Prabhakar for Vijay Films. Most of the film's cast and crew reprises from the 1988 film ''Avale Nanna Hendthi ...

), "Kaveri Theeradalli Mungarige" (

Chaitrada Premanjali ''Chaitrada Premanjali'' is a 1992 Indian Kannada-language romance drama film directed and written by S. Narayan making his debut in direction. The film stars newcomers Raghuveer and Shwetha along with Lokesh and Abhijeeth in other pivotal rol ...

), "Akaradalli Gulabi Rangide" (

Anjada Gandu ''Anjada Gandu'' () is a 1988 Indian Kannada-language romantic comedy film produced by B N Gangadhar under the banner of ANS Productions and written and directed by Renuka Sharma. The film stars Ravichandran and Khushbu in the lead roles along ...

), "Collegegu Thanks" (''Joot'') and many.

Awards

* 2017 - Dr. Rajkumar Award by Raghavendra Chitravani Institution * 1999-2000 -

- ''Aa Arunodaya Chanda'' (Arunodaya)

Filmography

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hamsalekha, Latha Indian women playback singers Kannada playback singers Living people 1957 births