Vasundhara Das
Indian actor and singer
Vasundhara Das (born 27 October 1977) is an Indian playback singer and former actress.
Vasundhara's acting career includes Hey Ram (Tamil/Hindi), Monsoon Wedding (English), Citizen (Tamil), Ravana Prabhu (Malayalam), Lankesh Patrike (Kannada) and several others.
She won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer – Tamil for the song, "Shakalaka Baby" from the film Mudhalvan
Early life
Vasundhara Das was born into a Hebbar Iyengar family in Bangalore, Karnataka, to Kishen Das and Nirmala Das. She was educated at Cluny Convent High School and at Sri Vidya Mandir in Bangalore. She thereafter studied at Mount Carmel College, Bangalore, where she graduated in Mathematics, Economics, and Statistics.
Vasundhara began training in Hindustani classical music at the age of six under her grandmother Indira Das, who ran a music school on the top of their house. She then joined the Lalit Kala Academy and later studied under Pandit Parameshwar Hegde, her guru. In her college days, she was a lead singer of a girl band and a soprano in the college choir. In an interview, she states that "I got booed off the first time I sang on stage." She speaks Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, English, Hindi, Malayalam, and Spanish.
In 2012, Vasundhara married her long-time friend, Roberto Narain, a drummer and percussionist.
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