Mellifluous talent exposed at NATA Idol in Atlanta, Georgia

North American Telugu Association (NATA) Atlanta team conducted NATA IDOL successfully on Saturday, June 17th 2023 at West Forsyth High School in Cumming, Georgia. The Atlanta NATA IDOL event this year has been fortunate enough to have legendary singer SP Sailaja and popular lyricist Ananta Sriram as judges.

NATA IDOL Atlanta organizing team includes EX EVP Bala Indurti, Sreenivasulu Reddy Kotlure National Convention Advisor, Bhupal Reddy Panga BOD, Ravi Kandimalla BOD, Srinivas Vangimalla, Madhavi Indurti, Deepti Reddy Dodla, Neelima Gaddamanugu, Venkat Mondedu, Guru Parandami, Raghu Reddy Sagili, Sridhar Jyoti, Venkat Duggireddy, Pushyami Lanka, Jhansi Reddy, Hema Shilpa, Ravi Boreddy, Venkat Bussi, Venkat Pabbuleti, Venkata Rami Reddy Chintam, Seshu Kumar Vinakollu, and Chitti.

Both the Tollywood judges were presented with 23 singers for the second round held at city level in Atlanta. It was a packed performance and all contestants got valuable suggestions, feedback and course of action along the way.

Atlanta NATA IDOL team appreciated the national team chaired by Madhu Ganapati for coming up with rules, format and cascading to City teams. Sincere appreciation in the order to Bala Indurti, President Sankara Netralaya, for setting up initial discussions with IDOL judges and support throughout.

Kudos to Neelima Gaddamanugu, Founder of Nataraja Natyanjali Kuchipudi Academy and Sanakara Netralaya Board of Director for rigorous exercise of registrations, track checking and helping out by guiding in every possible way for this wonderful North American Telugu Association Idol 2023.

Thanks to Srivalli Sridhar for supporting the registrations and vendor stalls. The Atlanta city level winners of NATA IDOL singing competition will be participating in semi-finals and finals at NATA (North American Telugu Association) mega convention in Dallas, Texas this coming weekend.

The national winner in finals will get an opportunity to record first song for a famous Telugu recording studio. “Talent wins games but teamwork and intelligence wins championships”. Atlanta NATA IDOL event witnessed as a great example of this great quote.

NATA IDOL is a signature NATA event designed and executed to introduce the mellifluous singing talent of NRI’s to the world living far from India but always felt strongly connected to their roots. In recent years it has given a great platform for NRI singers to display their talent, passion and also seek opportunities to sing in Indian films.

Very recent and fine examples are Sruthi Nanduri, a finalist of India Telugu Idol 2023, & Aditi Bavaraju who sang quite a few numbers for SS Tharman in Telugu films. Special Thanks to Upendra Rachupalli and Venu Thota (Garudavega) for their extended support for this event.

NATA Atlanta team appreciated Byte Graph Productions (Prashant Kollipara) and his team for AV and LED setup. Extending NATA’s deepest appreciation to MANA TV and TV5 for live video telecast. Deepest gratitude to NATA EC, NATA national leader Dr. Raghava Reddy Gosala and his team.

Sincere appreciation to sponsors Vamana Systems, Config USA, Garudavega Transportation, Alpha Family Medicines, Jupiter Realty, GVR Realty, Sekhar Realty, Centillion, Jupiter Technologies and all others who remained anonymous in kindness and contributions.

Compliments to Lavanya Sreenath who held on to the forte anchoring a tedious 10 hour program ensuring everyone held it together. For more pictures, visit www.NRI2NRI.com/NATAIdolAtlanta2023.