Sreerama Chandra

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Sreerama Chandra
Chandra in 2018
Background information
Birth name	Sreerama Chandra Mynampati
Born	(1986-01-19) 19 January 1986 (age 35) Addanki, Andhra Pradesh, India
Genres	Playback singing
Occupation(s)	Singer and actor
Instruments	Vocals, guitar
Years active	2008–present
Website	sreeramachandra.in

Sreerama Chandra Mynampati is a professional singer, Indian Idol 5 winner from Hyderabad who debuted his playback career in the Telugu film industry.^[1][2] Sreeram won the fifth season of music reality show Indian Idol 5.^[3][4] In 2013, he made his Telugu cinema acting debut with the film Jagadguru Adi Shankara. He has also played the lead in Prema Geema Jantha Nai. He acted with Salman Khan for an advertisement with Suzuki.^[5]

Personal life[]

Sreeramachandra was born in Addanki, a town in the Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh, into a Telugu speaking family.^{[6][dead link]} His father is a High Court advocate while his mother is a housewife.^[1] In spite of a non-musical background, Sreerama Chandra had a passion towards singing and started singing in his school days from N.Ch.Parthasarathy and during college days.^{[citation needed]}

He did his schooling at St. Andrews School, Bowenpally, Secunderabad and graduated (BTech) from the Royal Institute of Technology and Science (RITS). He learnt music at Sri Bhakta Ramadasu Govt. College Of Music And Dance, Secunderabad from Bhaskara Haripriya (One of the Hyderabad Sisters – The Singing Divine Duo).^{[7][failed verification]}

Career[]

Sreeramachandra started singing during his school days, but started playback singing at the age of 17.^[8] He has completed his fifth year of his Certificate course in Carnatic vocal at Sri Bhakta Ramadasa Music College, Marredpally, Secunderabad.^{[citation needed]} After participating in ETV's Sye, a singing reality show, Telugu film music director Mickey J Meyer spotted Sreeram's talent and had him sing "Chirugalithone Adiga" for a movie called Notebook.^{[1][dead link]} He got his first break in singing in the track 'Nammalo Ledo' and 'Thidathara Kodathara' tracks for the critically acclaimed 2008 Telugu comedy film Ashta Chamma.^{[citation needed]}

The Indian Idol 5 win led Sreeram to enter Bollywood through Yash Raj Films with his first two songs from Mere Brother Ki Dulhan namely "Madhubala" and "Ishq Risk", the Club Mix Version. His first blockbuster hit song was with Himesh Reshamiya for the movie Khiladi 786. The song "Balma" threw a completely different light on his vocal skills as it challenged and popularized Sreeram in Bollywood. Thereon Sreeram went on to singing various hit songs in Bollywood such as "Subhanallah" from Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani and over 2000 songs in 7 other languages such as Telugu, Tamil, Bengali, Gujrati, Singhalese, Kannada and English. One of the greatest milestones of Sreeram's journey has been singing "Rehnuma", the Indian Idol winning song, which became a part of the soundtrack for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.^{[citation needed]}

Sreeram also had the opportunity to showcase his other personal passions; both acting and dancing through his Telugu movies Prema Geema Jaanta Nai and Sri Jagadguru Aadi Sankara.^{[citation needed]}

He also worked on an advertising campaign with Hero MotoCorp that featured Salman Khan.^{[9][non-primary source needed]} He released his debut Hindi album Rehnuma in 2010 and said it is a tribute to his loved ones.^[10] He has started recording his new Music album called Crazy Love.^[11]

In 2021, Chandra entered the reality TV show Bigg Boss Telugu season 5 as a contestant.^[12]

Competitions[]

• Finalist and 1st Runner-up of Jo Jeeta Wohi Super Star 2 in 2012
• Title Winner of Indian Idol Season 5 by Sony Entertainment Television.^[7] in 2010 (19 March to 15 August 2010).
• Title Winner of Okkare conducted by ETV in 2008 (June–December).
• Reached Top 18 of Amul STAR Voice of India conducted in the year 2007 March.
• Finalist in Sye Singer's Challenge conducted in 2006–07, by ETV.
• Qualified for Delhi Finals Sangam Kala Group(Delhi), conducted in November 2006, by Hero Honda.
• Winner of radio competition Voice of Andhra, Was conducted in the year 2005–06 by FM radio.
• Runner-up in Relax songs competition conducted by Ramana Gogula in 2005.
• Winner of Ananda Ragam Contest conducted by the team from Anand in 2004.

Achievements and performances[]

• He started performing shows at the age of 8 and has done many stage shows including classical and filmi music.
• He performed shows with singers, Mano, Malathi, Sunitha. He has done shows with Limca.^[13]
• He has performed along with Koti, M. M. Keeravani, Madhavpeddi Suresh, Vandemataram Srinivas, Ghantadi Krishna and many more music directors.
• He sang three songs in Sabari Gireesha Saranam an audio CD composed by Mantha Srinivas.
• His first performance was in Hyderabad was on 25 September 2010.
• He performed at the 2010 Commonwealth Games New Delhi closing ceremony along with singers like Shankar Mahadevan, Shreya Ghoshal, Sunidhi Chauhan etc.

Awards[]

• Sreerama won the prestigious Lata Mangeshkar Award from Andhra Pradesh Government.^[14]
• He was awarded the P. B. Sreenivas Award on 19 October by singer P. B. Sreenivas at Ravindra Bharathi, Hyderabad, A.P.
• Sreerama received the Ghantasala Award on 4 December.^[when?]
• He won the Indian Idol 5 contest on 15 August 2010
• In the non-film music category of GIMA 2011 Indian Idol 5 winner Sreeram won best music debut for Rehnuma
• He was awarded Dainik Prayukti Sammaan 2017 on 31 March 2017 at Constitution Club of India, Delhi.^[15]

Discography[]

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Filmography[]

Film[]

Television[]

References[]

External links[]

• Media related to Sreerama Chandra Mynampati at Wikimedia Commons