N.C.Karunya
Karunya's Single "O Priyathamaa" Poster.
Karunya's Single "O Priyathamaa" Poster.
Background information
Born (1986-03-01) 1 March 1986
OriginHyderabad, Telangana, India
Occupation(s)Singer, Songwriter, TV host
Years active2006 – present

N. C. Karunya is an Indian playback singer, stage performer, YouTuber, songwriter, and TV show host. He participated in the reality show Indian Idol (Season 2) on Sony Entertainment Television.[1] After Indian Idol, he became a recording artist by singing for more than 200 projects in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Bengali, with the majority of recordings in Telugu, which is his mother tongue. He has also hosted musical reality shows. In 2017, he launched his own YouTube channel, and since then, has released several singles composed, written, and arranged by himself.

Early life and career

Karunya with his Paaduthaa Theeyagaa trophy.
Karunya with his Paaduthaa Theeyagaa trophy

N.C. Karunya was born on March 1, 1986, to N. C. Madhu and P. Janaki in Hyderabad, India. He has been training in Carnatic classical under his Guru, "Vaaggeya Vidwanmani" Sri N.C. Murthy, since the year 2000 and continues to do so.

He was the winner of the Padutha Theeyaga Junior series in 1998. Karunya was a participant in the second season of Indian Idol. He was runner-up to fellow contestant Sandeep Acharya. Karunya hosted the reality show Little Champs on Zee Telugu, Airtel "Saptaswaralu" on ETV, Vijetha-Voice of Andhra on local TV with M. M. Keeravani as the judge, and Super Singer 8 on Maa TV with M. M. Keeravani and Smt. K.S.Chitra as the judges.

Films

Following Indian Idol 2, Karunya was called for an audition by Vidhu Vinod Chopra for Lage Raho Munnabhai. He began his playback career by singing for Sanjay Dutt. He then sang a song in Jai Santoshi Maa for Anu Malik. After that, he went to Hyderabad to meet members of the Telugu film industry who supported him during "Indian Idol". In that series of meetings, he met Jr. NTR, who offered him his first Telugu hit, "Ekaantangaa unna," a song composed by Mani Sharma for the film Ashok. After this song, he went on to record songs including "Orugalluke Pilla" from the film Sainikudu, Enduko from Chirutha, "123 Nenoka Kantri" from Kantri, Ammayi Kitiki Pakkana from Maryada Ramanna, Om Namo Siva Rudraya from Khaleja, Oola Oolala Ala from Orange, Vayyarala jabilli from Pawan Kalyan's Teenmar, "Andam andam" from Vetadu-Ventadu, composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja, starring Vishal (actor), "Meher meher" from "D for Dopidi", "Suvvi Suvvaalamma" from the movie Loafer, two songs for "It's My Love Story," and many more.

He was the voice behind the short film made by Allu Arjun and director Sukumar, I Am That Change.

Karunya was the youngest singer to be a part of the remake of the song "Mile sur mera tumhaara". It was remade in 2010 and released as "Phir mile sur" on Republic Day on Zoom TV.

Independent music

Karunya released his first Hindi album, the self-titled Karunya, on August 9, 2008. The music was composed by Lesle Lewis, and the video was directed by the sister of Madhu Sarkar. His second album was a light music album named Karunya's Vandebhaavagurum. He also released four singles. He released the songs "O Priyathamaa" on June 9, 2017, "Prema Geethika" on August 10, 2017, "Maayarogam" on April 14, 2018, and "Karuninchele" on August 23, 2019. His music video for "O Priyathamaa" reached 1 million+ views on YouTube.

Live performance

Karunya has performed in numerous concerts in India as well as in America, the Emirates, Singapore, East Africa, and West Africa.[2]

Discography

Karunya performing at Ramoji Film City Winter Carnival.
Karunya performing at Ramoji Film City Winter Carnival
YearFilmSongComposerLanguage
2021Vennela Vacche Padhamani Vennela Vacche PadhamaniP.V.R. Raja[3]Telugu

References

  1. ↑ "N. C. Karunya". rediff.com. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
  2. ↑ "N.C. Karunya". indiansingers.in. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
  3. ↑ "Vennela Vacche Padhamani". Spotify. Spotify. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
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