[2] In 2015 he founded and has since served as the director of The Udupa Foundation,[3] a registered charitable trust with the aim of promoting music, performing arts and culture.

Udupa was born into a family of artists, and was exposed to music and literature from a very young age.

He began his musical training at the age of four, under the guidance of his father and well known Mridangam artist Vidwan Ullur Nagendra Udupa.

He has accompanied artists of different styles of music such as Carnatic, fusion, and jazz, including Sarvashree Dr. L. Subramaniam, Dr. M.Balamuralikrishna, M. S. Gopalakrishnan, R. K. Srikantan, T. N. Krishnan, T. K. Murthy, Palghat Raghu, Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman, A.K.Palanivel, Ganesh and Kumaresh, Mysore Nagaraj & Mysore Manjunath, Mandolin Srinivas, Malladi Brother , N.Ramani, K. J. Yesudas, R. K. Padmanabha, T. V. Gopalakrishnan, T.V.

Seshagopalan, Trichur V. Ramachandran, Dr. Jayanthi Kumaresh, R.K. Suryanarayana,Bombay Jayashree and Sudha Raghunathan.