Nagoor Saheb, known by his stage name Mano, is an Indian playback singer, voice-over artist, actor, and composer. Mano has recorded more than 35,000+ songs for film and private various Telugu, Tamil, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi, Tulu, Konkani and Assamese films. He has also performed for over 3000 live concerts across the continents. He has recorded many songs for music director Ilaiyaraaja. Mano is also recognized for being as the full-fledged dubbing artist for Rajinikanth in Telugu from Muthu (1995) onwards.

Career

Early days and debut

Taking the criticism in his stride, Mano went on recording as many as 500 songs with Ilaiyaraaja and slowly branched out to sing for other Tamil composers as well.

Voice-over dubbing

The year 1995 also saw another face of Mano as the voice-over dubbing artist in the Tamil film industry. He dubbed his voice for almost all Rajinikanth starrers in Tamil. His voice became almost synonymous with Rajinikanth and was in great demand by all the directors and producers. He also dubbed his voice for Kamal Haasan in some movies in Telugu.

Television works

Mano is hosting Manathodu Mano – a musical talk show in Jaya TV.

Personal life

Nagoor was born into a Telugu speaking muslim family from Andhra Pradesh. He is married to Jameela in 1985. His son Shakir is an actor and has starred in Naanga (2012).

Filmography

As actor

Television

As dubbing artist

Discography

Telugu discography

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Tamil discography

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

Malayalam discography

Kannada discography

Hindi discography

Television serial songs

Awards