Manjula Gururaj
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Manjula Gururaj (Kannada: ಮಂಜುಳಾ ಗುರುರಾಜ್) (born 10 June 1959) is an Indian playback singer, voice-over artist, television anchor, and music educator, primarily associated with Kannada cinema. She is widely recognized for her versatile singing style and has recorded over 2,000 film songs and more than 12,500 non-film tracks across devotional, folk, and light music genres.
Active since the early 1980s, Manjula has collaborated with leading composers and lent her voice to numerous chart-topping Kannada songs, earning critical acclaim and multiple state awards. She is a recipient of the Karnataka State Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer (1993–94), the Karnataka Rajyotsava Award (2010), and the Kempegowda Award (2019), and the Karnataka State Special Jury Award for her dubbing performance in Beladingala Baale (1995), among other honors. Apart from Kannada, she has recorded songs in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, and Tulu language films.
In addition to her singing career, she has worked as a news anchor for Akashvani and Doordarshan. Manjula, along with her husband Gururaj, established "Sadhana Music School" in Bengaluru, which trains aspiring vocalists in light and classical music.
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