Smita Bellur | |
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 Smita Bellur Hindustani Classical Sufi singer | |
| Background information | |
| Genres | Hindustani classical and Sufi devotional music |
| Occupation(s) | Musician and singer |
| Instrument(s) | Sufi singer |
| Years active | 25 |
| Website | www |
Smita Rao Bellur is a Hindustani classical (Khyal) and Sufi devotional singer (Qawwali).[1][2][3] She belongs to the Kirana gharana of Jaipur, a musical specialist school.[4]
Bellur is from North Karnataka.[5]
She regularly broadcasts as a graded artiste (B High) from India’s national broadcasting network- All India Radio/Doordarshan, and from media/TV Networks and radio channels such as ETV Urdu/Kannada, Zee, Doordarshan, TV9 and Suvarna/Asianet and All India Radio/Doordarshan, FM channels such as 92.7BIG FM in addition to Twaang, Apple music, Spotify, Gaana, Saavn, Wynk, Hungama and Amazon music etc. [6]
Smita has earlier been a senior faculty at the Shankar Mahadevan Academy. In addition, she also works on a fellowship research project by the Karnataka Sangeeta Nritya Academy and the India Foundation for the Arts.[7]
She holds a master's degree MS (QM) from BITS Pilani and Bachelor of Engineering (Bangalore University) and has earlier worked in software multi-national companies like First Apex, Oracle, and the German software giant SAP, before giving it up to focus full-time on her passion-turned-profession.[8]
She has trained from P.R. Bhagwat, Arjunsa Nakod, briefly from Rajabhau Sontakke (disciple of Omkarnath Thakur) and Bhalachandra Nakod. She is currently studying under Alka Dev Marulkar for khyal and Naasir–Nazeer Ahmed Warsi (Warsi Brothers) of Hyderabad (grandsons of Padmashri Aziz Ahmed Warsi) for Sufiana music/Qawwali rendition. She is trained in Sufism by Dr. Ejazuddin Ashrafi and Syed ZIa Alvi of Delhi.[9]