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Rajalakshmy is a popular singer in the Malayalam film industry. She made herself popular as a singer in the Malayalam film industry by winning the ‘Kerala State Film Award’ for the position of the best playback singer in the year 2011. Apart from the Malayalam movies, she also gave her voice to the Tamil and Kannada movies also. She was born on 13th of October in Ernakulam. She belonged to the musical family. Her passion for the music was recognized by her mother when she was so young. Her mother’s name was Parvathy. She was an excellent singer of her age. She had done her matriculation from St.Ann’s English Medium Higher Secondary school located in Eloor and also from the Government Girls Higher Secondary School situated in Ernakulam. She had completed her Bachelor&...

Tessa Chavara is an Indian Playback singer and Music Composer who has worked predominantly in the Malayalam language. She was born in Kochi, Kerala. So far, she has worked in Mollywood cinema and the music industry. She had her break through the song "Nanavere Kandittum” in the movie “Njandukalude Nattil Oridavela" (A Break in the land of Crabs) in the year 2017. The song was composed by Justine Varghese. The song was a chartbuster and famous among the Malayalam-speaking audience. Following that song, she also got to sing for another three movies in the year 2018. She collaborated with famous Malayalam music director Shaan Rahman for the song “Etho Vazhithaarayil” in the movie “Chaanakyathanthram." She sang the song with the lead actor in the film Unni Mukundan. She also collaborated with Mu...

Gowry Lekshmi is an Indian singer and songwriter. She composes her tunes and performs at stage shows. She is an Indie-pop music lover and believes in creating her songs. Her dream is to collaborate with alternative music bands such as Coldplay, Mutemath, and Lianne La Havas. She loves RnB, Country, and contemporary music. She took birth in a quaint village named Cherthala, Alappuzha, in Kerala.

Her work is rare, and nowadays this quality is seldom seen in the industry. Music attracted her since she was young; at the age of three, she took her first training in Carnatic Sangeet. She trained under multiple gurus including the likes of Syamala Venkataramani, Vaikom Vasudevan Namboothiri, S.K. Suma, etc. At 11, she started taking Hindustani music classes from Vijay Sursen and Fayaz Khan.

At a tender age, Gowry had already e...

Soumya Ramakrishnan, a famous Malayalam playback singer, was born in Ernakulam in a musical family. She was born on 21st July 1984. Soumya is very much interested in singing right from her childhood. Soumya learned music from the famous musicians Mohan Kumar and Cochin Vishwanathan.

After her schooling in Ernakulam, she joined St. Teresa’s College and completed her graduation in Botany. She did her Master of Business Management in TKM Institute of Management in Kollam. She had been concentrating on her studies and vocals. After completing her post graduation in management, Soumya Ramakrishnan joined the famous corporate company, Xerox Services in Inforpark Ernakulam as a recruiter. Soumya got an opportunity to start her career as a singer with the support of &ldquo...

Baby Shreya is an Indian child actress, popular amongst the Sandalwood audience for her work in movies like Haro Hakki (2016), Gold Coins (2017), and Muttayikallanum Mammaliyum (2019). It was solely because of her talent that she got a breakthrough in Sandalwood at an early age. Film Director E Channagangappa gave her the first breakthrough when he cast her for the movie Soundarya (2007), also starring Ramesh Aravind and Sakshi Shivanand. Since then, she has featured in more than ten movies, the latest being Pramod G Gopal’s Gold Coins (2017), starring Dr. Amar Ramachandran, Master Vasudev, Master Gopal, and Sunny Wayne. 

Sunitha Sarathy is an Indian singer who has contributed in contemporary Indian Music as well as Western music. She has performed on many platforms and has been a part of many church choirs. She had participated and won the Virgin Voice Choice". The show was a collaboration of Virgin Records and Channel V. She was born in Madras. Her family was always into the music industry. Her family was into Western music, and she started singing at a very young age. He used to participate in church choirs. Her mother is a pianist. Susheela Sarathy is one of the main personalities at the Madras choirs in Santhome Church. He mother Susheela always encouraged her daughter. He used to participate in the Santhome Church, which increased her popularity among the whole Madras. She was a known face for them and was the hon...

Sujatha Mohan (Sujatha or Baby Sujatha) is one of the most prolific singers after S. Janaki, P. Susheela, and K.S. Chitra. She has sung nearly 10,000 songs in many Indian languages and has performed over 5000 live concerts in her career. She came to spotlight while singing songs with K.J. Yesudas in musical concerts. This fetched her recognition, and she got her first break as a playback singer when she was in the sixth standard. 

Sujatha’s debut was in the year 1975 when she sang for a Malayalam movie ‘Tourist Bungalow.' She then sang for two other movies ‘Kamam Krodham Moham’ (music composer Shyam) and ‘Aparadhi’ (music composer Salil Chowdhury ). During this time, she also sang non-filmi songs. In 1998, she...

Chithra is a worldwide known Indian soulful singer. Her original name is Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra. Born in July 1963, Chithra has grown into a versatile singer who can sing all variants. Though she is a born Malayali, she sang in more than 13 languages so far, and the number is still going on. She is fondly known as Chinna Kuyil and Keralathinte Vanambadi, which translates into English as Little Nightingale and Nightingale of Kerala. This is due to her exceptionally melodious singing which has never known any boundaries. She made the excellent contribution to the Music industry in languages like Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Odia, Assamese, Hindi, Bengali, Sanskrit, Badaga, Tulu, Punjabi, and Urdu. She has a record of being able to record more than 25,000 songs and the number...

Ganesh Sundaram was born on May 30, 1969, at Ernakulum, Kerala. His parents are Mr. N.S. Chettiyar and Mrs. Meenakshi. He has his primary education at Govt primary school at Thekkumbhagam which was situated at Tripunithura the capital of Ernakulum. To continue his higher secondary education he moved to two schools namely Govt Boys Higher extra studies at Tripunithura and Govt Higher subsidary qualification at Chottanikara.

Ganesh was very close to his school teacher for his capability in singing and artworks. At the age of ten, he started taking the class in Carnatic music. He had his initial music training from his guru Mrs.Lailu in Carnatic music. Later his training extended with musicians like Mrs.Indira, Tomy Thomas, Kaavalam Sreekumar, S.K.Subramanian and Kanjangad ...

Hari Narayanan is a Tamil and a Malayali song lyricist. It is hard to find a native Malayali who has never heard any music composition or song made by this famous lyricist. They are very fond of his music and almost hear him regularly. The most popular and famous Malayalam music and song of 2014 was composed and written by Hari. The name of the song was Olenjali Curuvi. The lyrics of the song were so touching and soothing that it captured the attention of not only the young generation, but also the old people couldn’t resist themselves from loving this composition. Even the song Kaatumooliyo Pranayam was a great hit.

But this song was restricted to youngsters and teenagers only. His lyrics are a great hit always. The year 2015 saw great success in his career. His songs filled the TV station telecasts, radio stations, thea...

Rafeeq Ahammed was born on 17 December 1961 at Akkikavu, Trichur, Kerala, to Syed Sajjad Hussain and Thithayikutty. Rafeeq is a Malayalam poet, lyricist, and novelist. He has won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 2005 for his Poetic work, Aalmara, and is a Five-time winner of the Kerala State Film Award for Best lyrics.

Rafeeqis considered as one of the finest and successful Malayali artists, with more than 600 songs in his credit for about 400 Malayali films.

He graduated in English literature from Sree Krishna College, Guruvayur. Rafeeq married Laila, and today, he is blessed with two children, Maneesh and Lasya. His first work as a lyricist was in 1999, in the film Garshom, directed by P.T. Kunju Muhammed. After the success of his first film as a lyricist, there was no looking back for him.

His second work ...

Haricharan Seshadri is an eminent Carnatic singer who gives his vocal in many Malayalam, Tamil, and other regional movies. He made his debut through the Tamil flick ‘Kadal’, in which he got the chance to sing two solo songs "Unakkena Iruppaen" and the title song "Kaadhal". In the same movie, he also had sung a duet song ‘Thottu Thottu’ with Harini Shankar. 
 

Haricharan was born on March 20, 1987, in Chennai. His early generation proves that they were a typical Palakkad Iyer family, and his father was a B-grade artist in AIR and even a bank employee. Haricharan had taken Carnatic classical musical training since age 7 and then had privileged to learn musical lessons from stalwarts like K. V. Narayanaswamy, T.M.P...

Sreekumaran Thampi is a director, producer, lyricist, and screenwriter. He is known for his performances mainly in Malayalam cinema. Sreekumaran was born on March 16, 1940. He debuted in the Malayalam industry as a lyricist in the year 1966 by P. Subramaniam in the movie Kaattumallika. He has written more than a thousand songs, produced 22 films, written scripts for around 78 movies and directed 29 films. Sreekumaran believes that he is more of a lyricist than a producer. His works as a composer include "Hridayasarasile pranayapushpame", Chandrikayilaliyunna Chandrakaantham", Swonthamenna padathinendhartham.

He has also written four novels and several poems. He usually writes about romantic love. Thampi was born to Kalarikkal Krishna Pillai and Karimpalayathu Bhavaniamma Thangachi in Harippad, Alappuzha District....

Rahul Raj is one of the most well known music composers in all of the South Indian film industry. He has given music to many movies in his career ranging from various languages such as Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu movies. He was born on March 17th in the city of Cochin in Kerala. He was born to N. S. Kunjoonjamma and E. Thankappan, an advocate. He completed his higher secondary education from Bhavans Vidya Mandir located in Elamakkara in Cochin.

After that he obtained a degree in IT engineering from Cochin University. He has been trained in the Mridangam instrument and in Carnatic music when he was just six. He moved to London after a short period in Bangalore. During his stay in London, he decided to undergo a course in Electronic Sound Production.

Rahul’s entry into the field of music prod...

Bijibal Maniyil is an Indian composer and a singer born on 21 May 1973. Bijibal is not only a playback singer but also an expert Keyboardist. Bijibal field of interest includes film scores, classical and dance music. Bijibal is a very renowned composer and has won many prestigious awards including a National Film Award. Bijibal made his debut in the Malayalam film industry as a music director with the film Arabikatha in 2007. The film won him Mullassery Raju Music Award for the best music director in 2007. Some of the remarkable works of Bijibal includes Njaan, Balyakalasakhi, Kaliyachan, Salt N’ Pepper and Arabikatha. Bijibal won the Asiavision Movie Award for the Movie Salt N’ Pepper in 2011. Recently Bijibal is working on some movies My God, Salt Mango Tree, KL. 10 and much m...

Immanuel Vasanth Dinakaran, acknowledged as D. Imman, is an Indian big screen musician and songster mainly for Tollywood. Imman was in Chennai in Sothern parts of India on 24 January 1983. He did his schooling Don Bosco, Egmore, Chennai and completed his graduation in Pachaiyappa's College. He did his Master's from Madras University. Immanuel got married on 24th April 2008 to Monica Richard, and the couple is blessed with two adorable daughters.

Vijay Yesudas (Born: 23rd March, 1979) is an Indian classical musician and playback singer from Chennai. He is known for his work predominantly in the south Indian film Industry, especially Malayalam, and Tamil films as well as in other Indian Languages such as Telegu, Kannada, and Hindi.

Vijay is the son of prominent singer K.J. Yesudas and the grandson of stage singer Augustine Joseph. His mother’s name is Prabha, and he is the second son of the family. He studied in Chennai until the 9th grade and moved to the US for further studies. He graduated from the University of Miami with a B.A in Music.

Vijay Yesudas started learning Carnatic music in early 2000. He is popular for his songs with composer Yuvan S...

Unni Menon is a veteran playback singer who had enthralled the audiences with his melodious voice. He has sung in many Indian languages and he was one of the best classical singers who had a good combination with A R Rahman. He was born in Temple town of Guruvayoor in a middle class family. He had done schooling in Guruvayoor and went to Palakkad to continue his degree. Although this singer had shown a great enthusiasm in signing right from his childhood days, it was just a co-incidence that brought him to Indian film industry.

This god-gifted singer might not have hoped to become a singer at all although he used to sing right from he was young. As a commoner, he also did find a job in a vehicle factory in Chennai. Nothing was pre-planned. Neither, he had a formal training in singing no...

Kattassery Joseph Yesudas shortly called as K J Yesudas is an exceptional Carnatic singer and playback singer in Indian Cinema. Born on Jan 10 in 1940, he is fondly called as Gana Gandharvan and Dasettan. He has set a record of recording more than 60,000 songs. He is born in a Roman Catholic family, in Kochi. His father was a great classical Malayalam musician. His first song was Jaathi Bhedam Matha Dwesham (music: M B Sreenivasan) recorded on 14 November 1961. This song is so close to Yesudas, that he signs it even today very often in any of the concerts. His journey started with this song. He got his first hit through a movie Bharya under the music direction of G. Devarajan. He made huge hit songs in Tamil and Telugu film industries as well. His first song in Tamil was in a film Bomm...

Naresh Iyer is once again a popular face, but mainly due to his singing talent. This 34 year old singer hails from Mumbai. There is no end the number of hit songs he has produced over the years. Likewise, he owns a series of awards that have been rightfully given to him. His contribution to Bollywood has been tremendous.

In spite of having a degree in Commerce, Iyer decided to study Carnatic music and Hindustani classical music. His career has just looked forward from then on.

He got recognition from A.R. Rahman in the reality talent show which was called Channel V’s Super Singer.  His beautiful rendition of Roobaroo, which was an A.R.Rahman composition for the movie, Rang De Basanti, won his a lot of accolade. He went on to win the national award for the Best Male Playback.