Kiran Hegde, born and brought up in a traditional family, at Magegar, Siddapur, Uttara Kannada (Karnataka), has got good cultural background and reasonable support to music. He learnt basic Hindustani flute by Vidwan Prabhakar Bhat Sirsi. Then he went to well known flautist Pt. Venkatesh Godkhindi of Bangalore for the higher study in order to know the techniques of flute.