M. D. Pallavi, also known by her married name Pallavi Arun, is a singer from

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, India. She is a

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Sugama Sangeetha Sugama Sangeetha, a variety of Bhavageethe, is an Indian musical genre in which poetry in the Kannada language is set to music. It gained recognition with the work of P. Kalinga Rao in the mid -20th century. Mysore Ananthaswamy and C. Aswath ...

Singer, (Playback singer), and Television actor. She is married to Arun, a Percussionist (drums). She is a recipient of the 2018 Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuwa Puraskar awarded by Sangeet Nataka Akademi. She won the

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for Best Playback Singer in 2006 and 2007 for her song "Nodayya Kwate Lingave" sung in the 2007 film '' Duniya''.

Personal life

Pallavi comes from a family of artists. Her great grandfather, A.N. Subbarao, was a painter and started the Kalamandir School of Fine Arts in Bangalore,first fine arts school in India. her grandfather was A S Murthy he was known as Radio Eranna

Music

M. D. Pallavi started training in Hindustani classical music, and has a degree in Hindustani Music from University of Benares. She received her training in Sugama Sengeetha from

Mysore Ananthaswamy Mysore Ananthaswamy (ಮೈಸೂರು ಅನಂತಸ್ವಾಮಿ) was one of the pioneers of Kannada Bhavageethe in Karnataka. He was a very popular composer and singer of Kannada Sugama Sangeetha. He composed music for several poems an ...

. Pallavi has received Hindustani Vocal training in Bangalore under Ram Rao Naik and Rajbhau Sontakke, a doyen of the

Gwalior Gharana The Gwalior Gharana (Gwalior school of classical music) is one of the oldest Khyal Gharana in Indian classical music. The rise of the Gwalior Gharana started with the reign of the Mughal emperor Akbar (1542–1605). The favourite singers of t ...

Acting

Television and film

Pallavi made her debut in television with the television show ''

Mayamruga ಮಾಯಾಮೃಗ spelled MayaMruga which means "The Magic Deer" is a Kannada language teleserial directed by T. N. Seetharam jointly with P. Sheshadri and Nagendra Sha. It was first aired on DD Chandana in 1998, then it got re-aired on Ze ...

.'' She has also acted in the popular Kannada television show ''Garva''. She won the Aryabhatta "Best Actress" award. She was also a member of cast in the Indian English language film '' Stumble'', released in 2003. This film won the National Award in the Best English Film category for the year 2002. She also acted with

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in National Award winning Kannada movie ''Gulabi Talkies''.

Playback songs

This is a partial list of notable films where M. D. Pallavi has sung * ''All films are in Kannada, unless otherwise noted

References

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