Smita Bellur

Smita Rao Bellur is a Hindustani classical vocalist and Sufi singer.
Sufi Singer Smita Rao Bellur has sung at more than 400 venues ranging from Classical/Sufi music festivals to Corporate events, Fund raiser/Charity shows, harmony gatherings, weddings, and private HNI family functions/Chamber music. She belongs to Jaipur -Kirana gharana.
Life and career.
Smita is from North Karnataka, the third child of K.L Subba Rao and K.S. Susheela Rao.
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.
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.
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 FirstApex, Oracle and the German software giant SAP, before giving it up to focus full-time on her passion-turned-profession.
Music training.
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.