# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gurukiran
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:00:28.830Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gurukiran"
name: "Gurukiran"
slug: "gurukiran"
description: "Gurukiran Shetty, known mononymously as Gurukiran, is an Indian film actor and playback singer, music director of the Kannada film industry in India. He started his career as a music director of the Kannada movie A, directed and acted by Upendra. His music for his next movie Upendra further consolidated his position in Kannada movie industry. He is a native of Mangalore and hails from Bunt Family. His mother tongue is Tulu. He has also acted in several movies in supporting character roles and also sung several songs and also composed in Tamil, Telugu and Tulu movies."
tagline: "Indian music composer, singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gurukiran_(1).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           48.57
  momentum:             6.425773632895296
  historical:           5.603893333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1961201/"
    handle:    "nm1961201"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c235fe4c-f583-4817-9ef6-17d82c1e67f5"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurukiran"
    title: "Gurukiran"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%97%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%A3%E0%B3%8D"
    title: "ಗುರುಕಿರಣ್"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tcy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%97%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%A3%E0%B3%8D"
    title: "ಗುರುಕಿರಣ್"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%A3%E0%B1%8D"
    title: "గురుకిరణ్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%D8%B1%D9%88%DA%A9%D8%B1%D9%86_(%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B1)"
    title: "گروکرن (موسیقار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5620498"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/584632"
    title: "Gurukiran"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump