Lakshmi Narasimha Shastry [1] ( Lakshmi Narasimha Shastry ; August 30, 1971 - August 30, 2017 ), also known by the pseudonym Chaitanya ( English Chaitanya ) is an Indian singer and composer who worked in the film industry for Kannada . During his career he has recorded more than 300 songs [2] .
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Biography
Shastri began his career in the early 1980s in the theater workshop of Mandya with . Then, for about five years, he sang in orchestras. In 1990, he was introduced to composer , with whom he subsequently worked for almost nine years. The following year, Shastri made his debut as a voiceover with the song “Love Love Loveaah” to the music of Hamsalekh in the film Ajagajantara [3] .
The singer also collaborated with such composers as and . To the music of the latter in 1996, he recorded the song “Kolumande Jangamadeva” for the film Janumada Jodi , which earned him the Karnataka State Film Award for best male voice-over. Another hit of his career was the song “Karunaade” from the Malla movie, released in 2004 [4] .
In 1998, in the film Kanasalu Neene Manasalu Neene, he first performed as a composer. The songs gained popularity, but the film itself failed. In the first and subsequent films for which Shastri wrote music, he used the pseudonym Chaitanya and, only starting with the film Bellary Naga (2009), began to sign his own name [5] . In total, he wrote music for 25 films, the last of which was Melody , released in 2015 and failed at the box office. His last work as a singer was the composition “Lo Maava” for the film Love in Mandya in 2014 [4] .
In 2017, it became known that he suffers from intestinal cancer in the fourth stage [2] . As a result of the disease, Shastri died on August 30, 2017, at his home in ( Bangalore ) at the age of 46. He left a daughter and wife, singer Suma Shastri [3] .
Notes
- ↑ Artists Profile . Association of Kannada Kootas of America. Date of treatment January 27, 2018.
- ↑ 1 2 LN Shastri critical, cancer at 4th stage . IndiaGlitz (August 19, 2017). Date of treatment January 28, 2018.
- ↑ 1 2 LN Shastri's life is a story of `what could have been ' . Times of India (August 31, 2017). Date of treatment January 28, 2018.
- ↑ 1 2 Music director, singer LN Shastry no more . The Hindu (August 30, 2017). Date of treatment January 28, 2018.
- ↑ Shyamprasad S. Singer Shastri drops 'composer' Chaitanya . Bangalore Mirror (March 25, 2014). Date of treatment January 28, 2018.