Shimoga Subbanna or Shivamogga Subbanna (born as G. Subramanya, 14 December 1938 – 11 August 2022) was an Indian

Sugama Sangeetha Sugama Sangeetha, a variety of Bhavageethe, is an Indian musical genre in which poetry in the Kannada language is set to music. It gained recognition with the work of P. Kalinga Rao in the mid -20th century. Mysore Ananthaswamy and C. Aswath ...

(Light Music) playback singer in the

Kannada language Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native sp ...

. He received a national award for singing for the song ''Kaadu Kudure Odi Banditta'' in the film ''

Kaadu Kudure ''Kaadu Kudure'' is a 1979 Indian Kannada-language drama film directed, written and composed by Chandrashekhara Kambara and produced by Wheel Productions. The story is based on Kambara's own play ''Kaadu Kudure''. The film's cast came mainly fro ...

''. He was the first Kannadiga to win National Award for playback singing. Apart from being an exemplary singer and musician, he was also an advocate and a notary public.

Awards and honors

Subbanna received several awards and honors for his contributions to

, some of which are listed below: * National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer in 1978 * Kannada Kampu award in 2006 * Honorary doctorate from Kuvempu University in 2008 * Sundarashri Award in 2009

Death

He died on 11 August 2022, at the age of 83, after suffering from a cardiac arrest.

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