J Anoop Seelin (born 24 October 1979) is an Indian film music director and playback singer who works in the

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 ...

film industry. He has scored music for films including '' Gooli'', ''

Eddelu Manjunatha ''Eddelu Manjunatha'' ( kn, ಎದ್ದೇಳು ಮಂಜುನಾಥ, ''Wake Up Manjunatha'') is a 2009 Indian Kannada language cult black comedy film written and directed by Guruprasad, and produced by journalist and director V. Sanath Kum ...

'', ''Preethse Preethse,'' ''Yaksha'', ''

I Am Sorry Mathe Banni Preethsona ''I Am Sorry Mathe Banni Preethsona'' is a 2011 Kannada language romance film directed by Ravindra H P Das . It stars Prem Kumar and Karishma Tanna in lead roles. The music is composed by Anoop Seelin . Vinay Narkar has jointly produced the ...

,'' ''Manasology'', ''

Sidlingu ''Sidlingu'' is a 2012 Indian Kannada-language coming of age film starring Yogesh and Ramya in the lead roles. The film has been directed and written by Vijaya Prasad, who makes his big screen debut after directing many TV series. The film is ...

'', ''Parari'', '' Madarangi'', '' Naanu Avanalla...Avalu'' and '' Aatagara''. He won the

Karnataka State Film Award for Best Music Director Karnataka State Film Award for Best Music Director is a state film award of the Indian state of Karnataka given during the annual Karnataka State Film Awards. The award honours Kannada language films. Superlative winners Winners The following ...

for his ''

'' work.

Early life and education

Anoop Seelin, born in Hassan on 24 October 1979, always aimed to become a playback singer and film music composer. After completing his primary and high school education in Hassan, Karnataka, Seelin and with his family, moved to

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where he pursued higher education. Completing his LLB, he opted to become a lawyer.

Career

Due to his vocal background and the musical influence of his family members, Seelin began singing with a band and other groups in Bangalore as a hobby. This hobby led him to pursue a career as a full-time vocalist when he started working as a chorus singer in 1999 with

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, ...

, a legend of the

music industry. Over the next 6 years, Seelin was given a chance to sing track songs for numerous

compositions, with

personally guiding Seelin to become a renowned playback singer.

Break in the Kannada film industry

His break in the Kannada music industry came when he got the chance to sing "Yaro yaro nannavalu yaro..." from the movie '' Ondagona Baa'', followed by hit songs from movies like ''Sarvabhoma'', ''Madana'', ''Dharma'', ''Janapada'', ''Nenapirali'', ''Sixer'', and ''Thaballi''. After this success in vocal performance, Seelin began to show an interest in composition, and began writing songs for the Kannada music industry.

Music direction

Selin then signed on to compose the soundtrack for the Kannada movie ''Gooli''. His second movie ''Yeddelu Manjunatha's'' audio was released, and the songs were entirely different from what was then the industry trend. After ''Preethse Preethse,'' Seelin's next movie, ''

'', was released in June 2011 and received positive reviews from critics, with the background score being deemed the highlight of the film. In the same year, another movie ''Galla'' audio was released without much hype. In November, the audio of ''

'' was released in a theatre in Bangalore. Sidlingu received positive feedback from the media. Recently, the audio launch of Janma was held in a local hotel. Anoop Seelin has composed six songs for this movie.

Awards and recognition

Anoop Seelin has received numerous awards for his versatile singing. The Government of Karnataka announced the Karnataka State Film Awards for 2010–11, Seelin was named Best Music Director for composing music for the movie Sidlingu. The jury was headed by noted Kannada Movie director Sunil Kumar Desai.

Discography

References

External links

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Chitratara.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Seelin, Anoop Living people Kannada film score composers People from Hassan Kannada playback singers Indian male playback singers Film musicians from Karnataka 21st-century Indian singers Male film score composers 21st-century Indian male singers 1979 births