Rajalakshmi Senthil Ganesh
Anu Sithara
Aparna Balamurali
Sujatha Mohan
Rimi Tomy
Remya Nambeesan
Jyotsna Radhakrishnan
Vani Jairam
Usha Uthup
KS Chithra
Rafeeq Ahammed
Stephen Devassy
Haricharan Seshadri
Sreekumaran Thampi
Alphons Joseph
Gopi Sundar
Prashant Pillai
P. Jayachandran
Sujith Vasudevan (Sharreth)
MG Sreekumar
K J Yesudas
Shankar Mahadevan
Sachin Balu
1. Rajalakshmi Senthil Ganesh
Rajalakshmi Senthil Ganesh is an Indian Folk singer who gained fame for singing Tamil Folk songs. She sings at different places, including temples and villages and trained with her husband Senthil Ganesh in Folk art. The couple is now one of the contestants of Super Singer 6, a Tamil Singing reality show. She won many hearts by her intriguing voice quality.
Rajalakshmi was born in Karrambakudi, Tamil Nadu. She started singing folk songs in festivals which gained him fame. She is married to Senthil Ganesh, who is a folk singer. They are happily married, with two kids. Rajalakshmi along with his husband has brought out several authentic Tamil folk music albums.
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Rajalakshmi is an Indian folk singer hailing from Tamil Nadu, India. She was born in Karrambakudi, Tamil Na...
2. Anu Sithara
Anu Sithara is an Indian Film and Television Actress. She works in the Malayalam and Tamil Film Industries. Anu hails from Wayanad district in Kerala. Anu was born on the 21st of August in the year 1995. Her father’s name is Abdul Salam, and her mother’s name is Renuka Salam.
Anu worked as an actress for the first time in the Malayalam Film Pottas Bomb (2013), she played the role of Aswathy, a child. She appeared in more films such as Happy Wedding (2016), Fukri (2017), Johny Johny Yes Papa (2018), Adhyarathri (2019), and many more Malayalam films. She also worked for two Tamil films which are Veri Thimiru 2 (2015) and Podhu Nalan Karudhi (2019).
...3. Aparna Balamurali
Aparna Balamurali is an actress in Indian cinema who predominantly acts in Malayalam movies. Her debut film was ‘Oru Second Class Yathra’ (2015)where she played the character of Vineeth Sreenivasan's lover. She appeared as the pair of Vineeth in flashback scenes This film was directed by Jexon Antony and Rejis Antony. After this movie, she was associated with another Malayalam movie ‘Maheshinte Prathikaram’. The film was produced by filmmaker Aashiq Abu, who directed films like 'Daddy Cool' and 'Salt N Pepper' and Dileesh Pothan directed the movie. In the movie, she not only played the role of a college student as Jimsy Augustine but also lent her voice for one song ‘"Mounangal" along with Vijay Yesudas. This film placed her in the list of recognit...
4. Sujatha Mohan
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...
5. Rimi Tomy
Rimi Tomy Kizhakoodan, popularly known as Rimi Tomy, is an Indian origin singer, television anchor and an actress. She was born on September 22, 1983, in Kottayam, to Tomy Joseph and Rani, a Syro Malabar-Nasrani family. She has two siblings, one sister - Rinu Tomy and a brother - Rinku Tomy. Rimi came to fame through her voice. She started off as an anchor. Her first anchoring project was in 1997, on Doordarshan, which was “Gaanavedhi: An interview with K.P Udayabhanu,” various other music programs. She sang her first solo “Chingamassam” opposite Shankar Mahadevan, in the movie “Meesa Mahadevan” directed by Lal Jose, in 2002. Since then, she has anchored many music programs and reality shows, ranging from channels like Mazhavil Manoram, Kairala TV, and the famous Asi...
6. Remya Nambeesan
Remya Nambeesan is a chirpy young Indian actress, whose primary focus is Mollywood. Born on January 1, 1986, Remya Nambeesan was introduced into the film industry with the 2000 Malayalam flick Sayahnam. R Sarath helmed direction for this flick. After that, she went on to work in various Malayalam films as a child artiste. Then she was seen in insignificant supporting roles including Narendran Makan Jayakanthan Vaka, Gramophone, etc. She had worked under the direction of Sarath for three times. Eventually, she got lead roles since the year 2006.
The 2006 flick Aanachandam is her first film as a lead heroine. This film was not well received. However, Remya’s performance was appreciated to an extent. Then she acted in a couple of flicks and success ...
7. Jyotsna Radhakrishnan
JYOTSNA RADHAKRISHNAN is an Indian Play-back singer. She was born in Kuwait at 1986.She was brought up in Kuwait where she did her schooling up to the10th grade. She completed her 11th and 12th at BHARATIYA VIDYA BHAVAN THRISSUR. She graduated English Literature from Calicut University. She was started showing her interest in music at a very tender age .she made her first stage appearance was at the age of 6th, and there was no looking back ever since appeared.
Later she Contributed in various stage programmes through all over United Arab during her schooling. She won the RASSNA Internationally recognized for the best singer in the open United Arab Emirates competition for Hindi songs that held in 2001. As a singer with a magic in her Voice has already p...
8. Vani Jairam
Vani Jairam is a South Indian playback singer in Indian cinema and was born in 30th November 1945 in Vellore, Tamil Nadu. She was the fifth daughter of a family of eight children. Her mother is Padmavathi and a disciple of Ranga Ramunaja Iyengar. He taught her Dikshitar kritis and at age of eight, she got the opportunity of singing in All India Radio.
Her Carnatic music teachers were Srinivasa Iyengar, R. S. Mani and T. R. Balasubramanian. And Ustad Abdul Rahman Khan was her Hindustani classical music teacher. Vani was married to Jayaram and they settled in Mumbai after their marriage. In Mumbai, she realized her dream of becoming a playback singer in the film industry.
Her playback singer career started in 1971 with movie named “Guddi” and she recorded several songs for “Guddi”. For over four de...
9. Usha Uthup
Song ‘Ramba Ho’ from the movie Armaan mesmerizes all of us today also and that masculine voice of legendary lady Usha Uthup thrill the listeners.
Usha Uthup was born on 7 November 1947 in a Tamil Brahmin family in Mumbai. She did her education from St.Agnes High School, Mumbai and she has sung in 15 Indian Languages and Various Foreign Languages. Her next door neighbours daughter Jamila, inspired her to learn Hindi which later helped her to create a...
10. KS Chithra
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...
11. Rafeeq Ahammed
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.
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12. Stephen Devassy
Stephen Devassy is a music artist who started from the city of Palakkad in Kerala. He began his professional career when he was so young and has performed in front of an audience around the globe. He additionally holds the record for being the most astounding Asian scorer in Piano exams from the Trinity College of Music. He was born on 23 February 1981 to P.K.Devassy and Susy. He has a senior sibling, Sam Devassy, and a sister whose name is Biju Solomon.
He finished his school studies at the Seventh Day Adventist school in the city of Ottapalam. He went ahead to NSS College for seeking after his Pre-Degree. He accomplished his degree from Trinity College in the city of London. He holds the unparalleled qualification of finishing eighth grade piano at 16 years old. He wed...
13. Haricharan Seshadri
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...
14. Sreekumaran Thampi
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....
15. Alphons Joseph
Alphons Joseph is an Indian playback singer and music composer. The movie Vellithira was a turning point in his music career. The song Aaromale from the Tamil movie Vinnaithandi Varuvaaya (composed by A R Rehman) was sung by Alphons, and he got an appreciation for singing that song.
Alphons entered the film industry with the help of his friend Leo Thadavus, who introduced him to director Bhadran. At that juncture, Bhadran was looking for a fresh music composer for his film Vellithira. During the audio release function of the movie A R Rehman complimented Alphons for the distinct beauty in the songs. The songs Nee Manimukiladakal and Hridayasakhi of this movie deserve special mention.
Jalotsavam was the next movie of Alphons, and the number Kera Nirakal rocked the cha...
16. Gopi Sundar
The precious icon of the Indian music industry, Gopi Sundar has composed his soulful music for more than fifty movies to date. In 2014, he composed the songs & background score for the Malayalam movie "1983" and was awarded the National Award.the movie got a good critic rating of 3.5 out of 5.abrid shine, the debut director of the movie was awarded the Kerala State Awards in the category of the best debut director. Alongside the film bagged two more awards for the category of best & second best actor in the same award ceremony of 2014. He was born in Kochi & opted for joining the music industry for his career. Gopi has a good knowledge of instruments like Tabla & keyboard & has worked as a keyboard programmer in some of Bollywood hit films.
17. Prashant Pillai
Prashant Pillai, born on 8 September 1981, in Pune, Maharashtra, India, is a Music Producer, Composer, Film score writer, and Bandleader. After completing his graduation in Sound Engineering from Chennai, he worked as his guide and mentor A.R. Rahman for a short while and then settled in Pune. In 2004, Prashant got his first ever break to compose a radio jingle. He did his job quite good and was praised for it. He composed music for Bejoy Nambiar’s short movie Rahu in 2007. Pillai got his first break in feature films in 2010 in the Malayalam film Nayakan, directed by Lijo Jose Pellissery, featuring actors like Thilakan, Jagathy Sreekumar, etc.
Again he collaborated with Lijo Jose Pellissery in 2011 for the film City of Gods. 2011 was a successful y...
18. P. Jayachandran
P. Jayachandran is a South Indian playback singer. Often, he is also affectionately called the Bhava Gayakan in the industry. This singer had worked in close collaboration with A R Rahman and even Illayaraja. With Illaryaraja, he had given numerous popular hits in Tamil movies, and he even sang a Hindi song for an A R Rahman’s composition. For a Malayalam movie’ Pennpada’ that released in 1975, a song that he had sung is considered to the first composition of A R Rahaman. This singer also had given his voice for music composer M S Viswanathan, who is also known as ‘Mellisai Mannar’ in Tamil cinema...
19. Sujith Vasudevan (Sharreth)
Sujith Vasudevan is a music director and a singer who mainly composes film scores for Malayalam films. He is prominently known by his stage name ‘Sharreth’. He composed music for some of the Telugu, Tamil and Hindi films as well.
He was born on 3 October, 1969 in Kollam, Kerala. His parents are Vasudevan and Indiradevi. He is a student and a disciple of M. Balamuralikrishna. He is also an excellent Playback singer and sung songs in Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada films. In his early days, he worked as a keyboard player under music director Raveendran. His music directorial debut took place with Malayalam film Kshanakkathu in 1990.
His first song as a playback singer was along with K. S. Chithra which is ‘Dum Dum Dum’ for the Malayalam film Onningu Vannengil. He recorded...
20. MG Sreekumar
21. K J Yesudas
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...
22. Shankar Mahadevan
Shankar Mahadevan, a well-renowned, talented and famous music composer, and singer. An accomplished musician in Tamil cinema, he is a part of the Shankar Ehsaan Loy trio team that provides music to Bollywood and other International films. He has won various Indian and multiple National Film Award. His most famous albums include, “Breathless“- Album that first gave him fame, including the song, "Breathless," in which he sings throughout the whole song without pausing to breathe and “Nine” - Nine is Shankar's most recent album. Each song is a representation of a "mood," including joy, sadness, love, etc. He was also invited by UNESCO and the US State Department to perform at the UN General Assembly Hall for the finale of the International Jazz Festival on 30 Apr...
23. Sachin Balu