Shilpa Rao

She is an Indian singer. Raised in Jamshedpur. She started singing whil she was a kid, mandate and instructed by her father, S Venkat Rao, who holds a degree in music. She was motivated to be a singer upon meeting with Hariharan at the age of 13 and begain training under Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan, importune by Hariharan. Shilpa induct performing live with Hariharan at different venues, after winning a national-level talent hunt in New Delhi. Shankar Mahadevan was one of the judges in the contest tell her to settle in Mumbai. Rao worked as a jingle singer for few years and established a life of her own, Rao sang songs for products like Cadbury's Munch, Sunsilk, Anchor Gel. She was studying at college, she met with Mithoon, who called her for recording of the song "Tose Naina" from Anwar, in view of the song as her "most innocent rendition" she had don. This song is very close to my heart and has literate,me what thrill and gratitude of music is and can be. Her first release of 2008 came with Raghav Sachar-composed remix version of "Gup Chup" from One Two Three, followed by "Ek Lau" from Aamir, composed by Amit Trivedi. Shilpa a friend of music composer Amit Trivedi, introduced him to Anurag Kashyap, director of the film Dev.D , who was searching for a new composer with a " conspicuous vision" for his film. She recived her first nomination in Filmfare Awards Best Female Playback Singer, for very famous song Khuda Jaane" from Bachna Ae Haseeno.