Pragathy Guruprasad is a Singaporean-American

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who has worked in Indian Tamil-language films. Brought up in

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, she finished as a runner-up in the '' Airtel Super Singer Junior 3'' show, which aired from October 17, 2011 to October 26, 2012.

Personal life

Pragathi Guruprasad was born to Guruprasad and Kanaka on 14 September 1997 in an Indian Singaporean family, and she has an elder sister, Saiprithvi. In Singapore, her father taught Carnatic lessons, and since at the age of five, Pragathi had also begun training in

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. Her family subsequently relocated to Fremont,

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where she continued learning Carnatic and Hindustani music from both her father at first and then from a teacher, Sangeetha Swaminathan, a disciple of Sudha Raghunathan.

Career

In July 2014, she signed on to make her acting debut by portraying a supporting role in

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's ''

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'' (2016), but later opted out owing to her college commitments. In September 2016, Bala later announced that she would portray the lead role in his next project starring actor

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. However the film was eventually shelved before production began. In 2020, she made an appearance in a small role in the American comedy drama ''

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''. Pragathi sang the popular Tamil Sangam poetry 'Yayum Ngayum' for the album Sandham: Symphony Meets Classical Tamil by Composer Rajan Somasundaram, which in July 2020, was featured in Amazon's Top#10 International Music albums.

Discography

Television

References

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