1. Manu Narayan was born on August 16,1973 and is an American actor, film producer, singer, songwriter, composer and saxophonist.
14 Facts About Manu Narayan
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Manu Narayan is an accomplished classical saxophonist in the western and South Indian Carnatic styles.
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Manu Narayan studied the Carnatic saxophone in Mangalore, India with Sri Kadri Gopalnath, and played on All India Radio as the winner of the All India Radio music competition of Mangalore.
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Manu Narayan co-starred as Zoltan Karpathy in the original cast of Bartlett Sher's 2018 revival of My Fair Lady at Lincoln Center Theater.
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Manu Narayan appeared as Richard Roma in La Jolla Playhouse's critically acclaimed revival of Glengarry Glen Ross, receiving critical praise for his performance as well as a nomination for a 2012 San Diego Critics Circle Craig Noel Award.
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Manu Narayan starred as the romantic lead in Sudhish Kamath's Good Night Good Morning, which he co-produced, and Shailja Gupta's Walkaway.
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Manu Narayan co-starred with Lucy Hale in A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song and is featured in M Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender.
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Manu Narayan co-starred with Canadian comic Russell Peters in Quarterlife Crisis which was first broadcast on Showtime.
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In 2003, Narayan was invited to sing at a small state dinner for the first official visit of President George W Bush to the UK.
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Manu Narayan sang for then Senator John Kerry's presidential campaign, sponsored by Senator Hillary Clinton, as well as elsewhere with Cyndi Lauper, The Band's Garth Hudson and Martha Wainwright.
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Manu Narayan co-wrote and recorded the single Help Me to Find for the film Hiding Divya starring Madhur Jaffrey.
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Manu Narayan has collaborated with Grammy winner Frank London numerous times around the world, most recently recording and performing for his Soundbrush Records' klezmer concept album, A Night in the Old Marketplace.
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Manu Narayan is lead singer of the band D A R U N A M with Radovan Jovicevic, founding member of Yugoslavia's Grupa Zana.
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Manu Narayan recorded with D A R U N A M bandmate Radovan Jovicevic the single Have Me for the 2007 film And Then Came Love starring Vanessa Williams.