Manikanth Kadri
Manikanth Kadri is an Indian film score, soundtrack composer and singer. He has predominantly scored music for Kannada as well as several Telugu, Tamil, Tulu, and Malayalam films. He is the son of legendary saxophonist Kadri Gopalnath. Career. Manikanth started out his career by composing for jingles and devotional albums. He also composed for a title track of a Malayalam tele-serial "Annu Mazhayayirunnu" and won the Kerala State Award for best music. He released his first instrumental album called "Dream Journey" in the year 2001 and also tasted success. He also scored for background for an English  feature film "Tantric Journal". His film musical career began with "Smart City" (Malayalam) and "Mr. Garagasa" (Kannada), at the age of 24. After these films, his major break through happened with the Kannada film "Savari" in 2009. He has scored music for various films in Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Tulu and Tamil languages.