Pragathi Guruprasad
Background information
Birth name	Pragathi Guruprasath
Also known as	Pragathi
Born	(1997-09-14) 14 September 1997 Queenstown, Singapore
Origin	Fremont, California, United States
Genres	Carnatic and Western music
Occupation(s)	Playback singer
Instrument(s)	Vocalist
Years active	2012–present
Website	www.singerpragathi.com

Pragathy Guruprasad is a Singaporean-American playback singer who has worked in Tamil language films. Brought up in Fremont, California, she finished as a runner-up in the Airtel Super Singer Junior 3 show, which aired from October 17th 2011 to October 26th 2012.

Personal life

Pragathi Guruprasad was born to Guruprasad and Kanaka on 14 September 1997 in Singapore, 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 carnatic music. Her family subsequently relocated to Fremont, California 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 Bala's Tharai Thappattai (2016), but later opted out owing to her college commitments.^[1] In September 2016, Bala later announced that she would portray the lead role in his next project starring actor Yuvan. However the film was eventually shelved before production began.^[2]

In 2020, she made an appearance in a small role in the American comedy drama Never Have I Ever.^[3] 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

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