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Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao (Photo source: Quora)

I plan to do a multi part series on SPB, tracing his music career in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada film music. I will not be concentrating on other aspects of SPB like his acting or dubbing career. I will occasionally be making reference to some of the singing shows he did for different TV Channels.

You must be surprised as to why the first part of this series is titled, ' A Legend called Ghantasala'. The idea is to give you a picture about the Telugu film music scene when SPB made his appearance. He recorded his first song for 'Sree Sree Maryadaramanna' in Dec 1966 (according to Wiki). The movie is listed as a 1967 release. So we can say that people heard SPB first in 1967. In 1967, the leading stars of Telugu films were N T Rama Rao (NTR) and Akkineni Nageshwar Rao (ANR). Actor Krishna was making his mark. The popular music directors included K V Mahadevan, S Rajeshwar Rao, Pendyala Nageshwar Rao. Other music directors like Master Venu, T V Raju, Chalapathi Rao and S P Kodandapani were active during these times, the last mentioned being the one gave SPB his first break and later encouraged him a lot. As far as singers were concerned, the leading female voice was that of Susheela. P.Leela, Jiki, S Janaki were the other popular singers of those times. P.B.Sreenivas, Madhavapeddi Sathyam were some of the male singer but the man who dominated Telugu Film Music went by the name of Ghantasala.

Ghantasala, short for Ghantasala Venkateshwar Rao, was a singer whom Telugu listeners worshiped. His strong voice, combined by his felicity in rendering classical ragas as well as his amazing rendering of padyams, made him a demigod in Andhra Pradesh. Not only the listeners, the whole of film industry was in awe of his voice. Heroes wanted him to render their songs. He was 'the' voice of NTR and Nageshwar Rao. The music directors were ready to set challenging tunes, like 'Siva Sankari' of Pendyala Nageshwar Rao for example

Indian singer (born 1962)

In this Telugu name, the surname is Sripathi Panditaradhyula.

Sripathi Panditaradhyula Sailaja is an Indian singer, voice artist and actress who had sung 10,000 songs in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi films. She had sung most of the songs for Illayaraja, K. Chakravarthy, Ramesh Naidu, K.V. Mahadevan, Chandrabose and Shankar-Ganesh.

Television works

Sailaja has appeared as both an audition judge and a guest judge in several reality talent hunt shows such as Vijay TV's Airtel Super Singer, Airtel Super Singer Junior.

She started her television in ETV Sarigamallu with Mano as Co-Host. She has also appeared in Airtel Saptaswarallu as Judge with R. P. Patnaik as Co-Judge. She appeared in Padutha Theeyaga as one guest Judge. She appeared in Swarabhishekam Season 1, Season 2, Season 3, Season 4, Season 5, Season 7, Season 8.

In Zee Telugu she is a part maximum seasons in Saregama Pa little Champs and Saregama pa.

Filmography

Actress

Playback Singing

Partial List Of S. P. Sailaja Songs

Indian playback singer

Sunitha Upadrashta is an Indian playback singer and voice actor who primarily works in Telugu films. She is a recipient of nine Nandi Awards and two Filmfare Awards South in various categories. She also received a National Award from All India Radio under light music category when she was 15 years old. She received her first Nandi award in the year 1999 and received Nandi Awards in a row for the years 2002 to 2006 and again for the years 2010 to 2012. She was also awarded with the Lata Mangeshkar Best Singer Award for 2011 by the Government of Andhra Pradesh.

Sunitha's commercial singing career began in the year 1995 with the movie Gulabi. She is also known as an anchor and host for music based programs and flagship programs, one among them was anchoring the historical Amaravati foundation-laying ceremony in the year 2015. Sunitha is also associated as a judge to musical reality shows in various channels, among them Padutha Theeyaga, a musical show that has been running for the last two decades on ETV which was launched and hosted by S. P. Balasubrahmanyam. Her contributions are widely noted as a voice-over artist giving voice to over 110 actresses in more than 750 films.

Sunitha traveled extensively across 19 foreign countries as an artist. Countries include USA (almost every year since 1999), UK, UAE, Singapore, Malaysia, Uganda, Nigeria, Tanzania, South Africa, Australia, Scotland, Ireland, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Japan, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Mauritius.

Early and personal life

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