Some of the songs he modulated his voice for are "Aye Shabba Aye Shabba" for Vidyasagar's Karna, "I Love You" and "Azhagiya Laila" for Sirpy's Ullathai Allitha and "Thillana Thillana" for Rahman's Muthu. Following this stupendous success in experimentation, many music directors cashed in his newfound fame and made him sing in the same style. He recorded the same song in the Telugu and Hindi versions which also were well received. Burman route and the Mukkala song went on to become a huge blockbuster which broke all the regional barriers and reached out to the entire country. Mano was asked to sing in a very different style by the composer and he took the R.
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Rahman to sing the duet song " Mukkabla" with Swarnalatha for the movie Kadhalan. He later followed the same style for some more songs especially those with Arabic tunes.
He took inspiration for that song from the evergreen RD Burman number Mehbooba Mehbooba from Sholay and the song went on to be a big hit and he was much appreciated for the voice modulation. In the 1988 Kamal-starrer Soorasamharam, he first experimented with his voice encouraged by his mentor Ilayaraja (who wanted him to sound different in the song - Vedhalam Vandhirukuthu). The late 1980s saw Mano experimenting with his voice through some modulations and it indeed worked in his favor to silence his critics.
His few Malayalam, Hindi and Oriya songs also were well received. His teaming up with Hamsalekha in Kannada produced many chart buster numbers which are considered evergreen. He simultaneously sang many hundreds of songs in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada film industries. He recorded maximum number of duet songs with K. Taking the criticism in his stride, Mano went on recording as many as 500 successful songs with Ilaiyaraaja and slowly branched out to sing for other Tamil composers as well. However, he also faced criticism from the critics who dubbed that his voice was an absolute clone to S. The songs "Shenbagame Shenbagame" and "Madhura Marikozhundu Vasam" became instant hits among the listeners. In 1987, Mano got a big break by singing popular songs for the film Enga Ooru Pattukkaran. Mano went on to record many memorable songs under the same composer for his Tamil and Telugu films. The name was selected and christened by Ilaiyaraaja himself in his first song "Annae Annae nee enna sonnae" in the Tamil film Fazil's "Poo Vizhi vaasalilae" title song. Name change and association with Ilaiyaraaja īefore beginning his long standing career with Ilaiyaraaja, Nagoor Babu was rechristened as "Mano" to avoid clash of names with the already established singer Nagore E. In his tenure with Chakravarthy, Mano sang over 2000 tracks for almost all the leading singers. Mano, joined his troop and assisted for almost 2 years. However, Chakravarthy insisted that he wanted an assistant like him to sing track songs. In 1982, Mano approached the famous composer Chakravarthy seeking a chance for his brother who was upcoming as a Tabla player. From then on, Mano was signed by Viswanathan to sing few track songs upon which the main singer would sing in the final version. Mano rendered a few of the Ghazal songs much to the appreciation of audience present there and the composer himself. Accidentally, Mano was asked to show his singing skills by the composer's assistant who was a good friend of Mano's father. Balasubramanyam who was supposed to sing a song could not show up to the recording studio. Viswanathan was the music composer, it so happened that the original singer S. While in 1977, Mano was shooting for a Telugu film for which the veteran M. Mano has sung almost 5,000 songs for films and private in 15 languages such as Telugu, Tamil, Oriya, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi.
He featured as a supporting character in films such as Rangoon Rowdy. Subsequently, he started his film acting career in the late 1970s and acted in about 40 movies as child artist. He soon started taking formal training of carnatic classical music under the vocalist Nedunuri Krishnamurthy. Inspired heavily by his mother, Mano joined the stage theater and played many historical characters which also involved singing live songs in his own voice. His father Rasool, was a musician in the All India Radio, Vijayawada division and his mother Shaheeda, was a popular Stage actress. Mano was born as Nagoor Babu in Tenali, Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh.