Hemanth (sometimes Hemanth Kumar) is a popular and an award-winning playback singer in Kannada cinema. 　　Hemanth was born in a family of musicians at Bangalore, India, his mother Smt. Rathna Sastry is a classical singer and his father Sri Subramanya Sastry is a retired economics professor who is also an ardent music lover. Hemanth nurtured his love towards music from the tender age of four. Since his childhood days he used to accompany his mother while she performed carnatic and light classical shows and he considers his mother as his first Guru. 　　Hemanth practiced Carnatic classical music under Vidwan Sri R. K. Srikantan and his son Vidwan Sri R.S.Ramakanth and also under Dr. Nagavalli Nagaraj and Sri H. K. Narayana for about a decade.