Nagoor Saheb, known by his stage name Mano, is an Indian playback singer, voice-over artist, actor, and composer.[1] Mano has recorded more than 35,000+ songs for film and private various Telugu, Tamil, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi, Tulu, Konkani and Assamese films.[1][2] He has also performed for over 3000 live concerts across the continents.[1] He has recorded many songs for music director Ilaiyaraaja.[3] Mano is also recognized for being as the full-fledged dubbing artist for Rajinikanth in Telugu from Muthu (1995) onwards.[4]
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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.[5]
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.[4] He also dubbed his voice for Kamal Haasan in some movies in Telugu.[4]
Mano is hosting Manathodu Mano – a musical talk show in Jaya TV.[1][6]
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).[1][7]