Usha was born on May 29th in the year 1980 in Nagarjuna sagar, Andhra pradesh. Usha started her singing carrer with the music based programme “Padutha Teeyaga“on the Eenadu Telivision hosted by the legendery singer the great S P BALASUBRAMANYAM. She stood first in the competition and later she participated in many other music based shows and she stood first in another competition “NAVARAGAM” in Gemini Television. Usha paticipated in many music related shows between 1996-2000.
She won the hearts of everyone by her performance in the programme “ENDARO MAHANUBHAULU”. She later participated in “MERI AWAZ SUNO” in Star Plus and she was one of three finalists in all india finals. Later she also patricipated in many other Hindi shows on channels like ELTV and ZEE TV. Usha started her film career with a song in the film “ILLALU” music director VANDEMATARAM SRINIVAS gave her the first opportunity in this film. She got the major break in the tollywood in the year2000. She sang in many telugu movies like Indra, Chirutha, Athidi, Varsham, Bhadra, Chitram, Nuvvu Nennu, Manasantha Nuvve, Nee Sneham, Santhosham, Jayam, Nuvvu Leka Nennu Lenu, Avunanna Kadanna and many more. She participated nearly in 150 concerts across the world apart from her solo concerts. She sang with many legendary singers and muscianslike S P Balasubramanyam, Sshankar Mahadevan, Hariharan, Manisharma, P Suseela, Mano and many more. Apart from all these performances her biggest achievement was participating with the great legendery singer S P Balasubramanyam at the AFRO -ASIAN games opening cermony held in 2003 at Hyderabad.
Her Awards:
- American Telugu Association (ATA) Excellence Award in 2008.
- “Ugadi Puraskar” award from Madras Telugu Academy in 2005.
- “Guest of Honor” for felicitation of legendary singer Smt. Asha Bhosle.
- Gold medal from Padma Mohana Arts in 2004.
- “P. Suseela Award” for Outstanding Singer in 2003.
- “Alapana” award for Best Female Playback Singer in 2003.
- “Eenadu TV” award for Best Female Playback Singer in 2003.
- Felicitated by TANA (Telugu Association of North America) in 2003.
- “CineMAA” and “Sivaranjani” award for Best Female Playback Singer in 2002.
- “Kalavedika Art” and “Yuva Kala Vahini” awards for Best Female Playback Singer in 2002.
- “ Vamsi Berkeley” award for Best Female Playback Singer in 2002.
- European Telugu Association (ETA) award for Best Female Playback Singer (2001 and 2002).
- Felicitated by ETA (European Telugu Association) In 2002.
- Felicitated by Kala Sravanthi in 2002.
- “AP Cinegoers” award for Best Female Playback Singer in 2001 and 2002.
- “Vaartha Vaasavi” award for Best Female Playback Singer in 2001.
- “Bharata-Muni” award for Best Female Playback Singer award in 2000.
- Felicitated at Bharat Cultural Integration by renowned actor Dr. Akkineni NageswaraRao in 2000.
This young singer earned name and fame at an early age of 32. Today, 29th may is her Birthday. On this happy occasion businessoftollywood.com extends birthday greetings to this young singer expecting more melodies with her sweet voice.
