Singer Aishwarya
Krishangi
Aruna Sairam
Archana Chandhoke
Malgudi Subha
Chinnaponnu
Sujatha Mohan
Harini
Mahathi
Singer Chandan Gupta
Janagan
Arul Prakasam
B H Abdul Hameed
Aslam Abdul Majeed
Singer Srinivas
Tippu
Velmurugan
Pushpavanam Kuppusamy
Haricharan Seshadri
D Imman
Premgi Amaren
Yuvan Shankar Raja
Vijay Yesudas
Vijay Prakash
Venkat Prabhu
Singer Karthik
1. Singer Aishwarya
Aishwarya is a well-known South Indian playback singer. She was born on April 23; 1997, and is best known for her appearance on the television reality series "Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Lil Champs." She was born and raised in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. She completed her education at "VVS Sardar Patel High School in Bangalore." She completed her graduation from “MES Degree College of Arts, Commerce, and Science.” Rangarajan Sundarraj Iyengar, Aishwarya's father, is a government employee, and her mother, Nalini Rangarajan, is a housewife. Her charming personality effortlessly draws people in.
Since childhood, Aishwarya had a passion for music and began taking vocal lessons when she was four years old. She received professional training in Carnatic classical music. She is proficient in western music as we...
2. Krishangi
Krishangi, an Assamese singer with new talent and a strong passion for music, left a mark on the music industry. The young Assamese girl has gained many fans for her love of the Tamil language after singing on the reality show "Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Seniors 2019." Unfortunately, she did not win the competition and received the "Best Entertainer of Season 2" title beside another Assamese performer, Saravedi Saran. They both shared a cash prize worth Rs.1 lakh. Aslam was the winner of the show and received Rs.10 lakh as a reward for his achievement. The show was a huge success.
Krishangi, hailing from Assam, moved to Chennai to explore different languages and cultures. Despite coming from a non-Tamil family, she proved that music knows no language barriers. She is a born singer. As a non-Tamil contestant, she came to...
3. Aruna Sairam
Aruna Sairam (also spelled Sayeeram) is a well-known Carnatic singer and Indian classical vocalist. She served on the chairman's board of the "Indian Premier National Institution of Music and Dance." She is also the Vice-Chairman of the "Sangeet Natak Academy." Aruna was born on October 30, 1952, in Bombay, Maharashtra, India, and was the first Carnatic performer to stage at the "BBC proms" in London and the "Oud Festival" in Israel (Jerusalem). She received music lessons from her mother, Rajalakshmi Sethuraman, a student of the Alathur Brothers, and Thanjavoor Sankara Iyer. Shri Sethuraman, her father, was a music lover who entertained musicians and dancers at his home. At one of these meetings, Aruna met Sangita Kalanidhi Smt T Brinda, who taught her the" Veena Dhan...
4. Archana Chandhoke
Archana Chandhoke is an Indian radio jockey and TV anchor, popular amongst the regional audience for her work in TV and radio shows like Comedy Time, Celebrity Kitchen, Super Mom, Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Lil Champs, etc. Mostly known for her major involvement in Tamil TV shows, podcasts, radio shows, and Kollywood movies, Archana has been a prominent part of the South Indian film industry for more than five years now. Born in Chennai Tamil Nadu, Archana is one of the most popular television anchors in the Tamil industry right now.
The year 2002 was a vital one for Archana as she made her first decisive contribution on the silver screen as an actor with the film En Vazhi Thani Vazhi, directed by Shaji Kailas, starring R.K. and Poonam Gaur in lead roles. Since then, Archana has evolved a lot as an actress and anchor, solely because of her...
5. Malgudi Subha
Malgudi Subha was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. She is a play-back singer and a pop singer by profession. She has worked majorly in South Indian Film Industry and her voice is considered to be distinct and unique. It has been more than 20 years (2 decades) that she has been singing songs in movies and lending her voice to various actresses. She has sung in more than 2000 films. She considers Usha Uthup as her role mode and somewhat resembles her in appearance. She is also a great follower of Kishore Kumar whom she has grown up listening to.
Priyamani, a National Award Winning South Indian Actress, is her niece. Apart from all the types of South Indian languages like Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, etc.She has also sung Hindi songs in the Bollywo...
6. Chinnaponnu
Chinnaponnu was born in Suranam in Sivagangai District in Tamil Nadu, India. As a child of thirteen years old, she actively participated in several temple festivals and churches. After that, she started to sing in the troupe of Artist Kottaisamy as a professional singer. She used to say him as her mentor. Later she was noticed by Gunasekar, who is a member of the Communist party. As he searched for folk songs and folk artists, he helped her explore herself in several parts of the state. By 2004, she made her first entry into the Tamil cinemas as a playback singer for the movie Chandramuki song Valthuren Valthuren.
After these performances, she appeared in several television shows and was also approached by several directors. By 2008, she made her next major hit Nakku Mukka which appeared in the movie Kadhalil Vilunthen. She rec...
7. 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...
8. Harini
Harini is an Indian playback singer in south Indian cinema. Harini was born on April 30, 1979, in Chennai. She is a noted singer in Tamil cinema with a career spanning two decades. Her singing career started in 1995 with the movie, Indira. She got her first break by singing for A.R. Rahman. In this film Indira, she sang two solo songs, Next year, she also got a chance to sing for a film like Indian and Iruvar. Her first rendering for Deva was in the year 1996 for the film ‘Nerukku Ner’. In the same year, she got a chance to render a solo song for music composer S.A. Rajkumar for the film ‘Pistha’. Occasionally, she did numbers for composers Karthik Raja, Mani Sharma, Vidyasagar, Bharathwaj, Harris Jayaraj, Yuvan Shankar Raja, M. M. Keeravani, Devi Sri Prasad, D. Imman, Chakri.
9. Mahathi
Mahathi is an Indian musician, born on 10 February 1985 in Chennai into a family of musicians. While her father, Thiruvaiyaru Sekar, is a former Carnatic vocalist, her mother, Vasanthi Sekhar, was a flute player. She completed her schooling from Cochin and graduated from Meenakshi College, Kodambakkam with a bachelor’s degree in English literature. With music running in her blood, it was no surprise to discover a child prodigy in Mahathi. When she was just one and a half-year-old, she started identifying the Carnatic Ragas, and by the time she was three, she could identify seventy-five of them. She got her initial training from her parents, as well as from Deepa and Gayatri at Thiruvananthapuram. Further, Sri O S Thiagarajan, Padmabhushan Chevalier Dr.M. Balamuralikrishna, and Padmabhushan T. N. Sesha...
10. Singer Chandan Gupta
"Without music, I am nothing." These are the words of Chandan Gupta that show his dedication towards music. Chandan Gupta is a renowned Indian singer who sings for the Kannada film industry. He completed his high school at Poura Path Bhawan Haldia. Later, he went to Rayat Bharat Institute of Engineering and Nano Technology to pursue B.Tech. Chandan has always shown his inclination towards studies. He studied Mechanical Engineering Technology at I.K. Gujral Punjab Technical University. Amidst his studies, his passion was prevailing and flourishing. Chandan has a resonance that has paved the way for his success, and he has now become an inseparable part of the music industry.
His works include Faad Deta Naya Sariya, A Chachi Vote Diha, V...
11. Janagan
Janagan is an Indian singer. He primarily works in the Tamil music industry. He competed in a premiere reality singing competition in the language, broadcasted on Sun TV Network. His voice is well-appreciated in the industry. "Sa Re Ga Ma Pa," one of India's most famous music reality shows, celebrated its 25th anniversary. To commemorate the occasion, a live concert titled "Ore Desam Orae Raagam" was held. Janagan performed alongside other artists such as Suganya, Sharmili, Varsha, Srinidhi, Aslam, Ramani Amal, Arya Nandha, and many more. Janagan was part of the grand celebration marked on the occasion.
The show "Sun Singer" is a singing talent hunt for children aged 6 to 13 in Tamil Nadu. According to Sun TV, the competition is a reimagined version of its Indian singing counterpart, “Sap...
12. Arul Prakasam
Arul Pragasam is a Tamil playback singer. He had an innate ability for singing and performing in front of an audience from a young age. He began studying Carnatic vocals with veteran musicians such as Shri. S. Nagai Bashiyam and Kalaimamani Shri. Ramana Bharathi. His most recent single, "Theeradha Kadhal," has been a great success. He collaborated with several bands and performed live. Arul traveled extensively with his band, "Soulusion." He toured with various musical groups in several countries of the world, including Malaysia and Kuwait. His desire to be a playback singer led him to Chennai, where he worked as a Music Instructor at the prestigious “Velammal School.” He spends his time teaching students all over the world, both online and in person. He had appeared in several concerts across the countr...
13. B H Abdul Hameed
B. H. Abdul Hameed (born 11 April 1949) is a Sri Lankan radio and television broadcaster, host, lyricist, and film actor. He is well recognized for his work as a broadcaster for Radio Ceylon, South Asia's oldest radio station. Hameed has hosted a number of important Tamil events all around the world. He became part of a group of announcers that were well-known throughout South Asia. Millions of people listened to the radio station that used to be known as Radio Ceylon and is now considered as one of the most popular Tamil radio stations in the country. In 1976, he made his acting debut in the Sri Lankan Tamil film ‘Komaligal’, which was a replica of the popular radio play ‘Komaligalin Kummalam’ and a box office triumph.
Hameed also appeared in K. S. Ravikumar's film ‘Thenali’, w...
14. Aslam Abdul Majeed
Aslam Abdul Majid is a well-known singer who won the title of Tamil Sa Re Ga Ma seniors’ season 2 show. The grand event was held in Chennai on November 19 in the presence of numerous fans who came to witness their favourite singer and music lovers. The main judges of the event were Sujata Mohan, Srinivas, and music composer Yuvan Shankar Raja. Aslam won the show by defeating five finalists and managed to grab the prize of a whopping 10 lakh.
The winner was announced by the jury members. On winning the prize singer revealed his struggles he went through this journey and later thanked the fans and the judges for identifying his true talent and appreciating it.
...15. Singer Srinivas
Srinivas is an Indian playback singer. He was born on November 7, 1959, and is 57 years old. He is also known as Srinivasan Doraiswamy. He is famous for lending his voice to more than 2000 songs in a variety of languages like Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi, Telugu, and Tamil. He was born in the town of Ambasamudram, after which his family moved to Thiruvananthapuram. His guru is his aunt, Padma Narayan, and she trained him in Carnatic music right from a young age.
Apart from Carnatic music, he was profoundly interested in works of RD Burman and Kishore Kumar, the legendary greats of Bollywood. He earned a degree in Bachelor of Technology from the Bombay University in the field of Chemical Technology. While studying, he got the opportunity to perform at various youth festivals organized by his university.Srinivas con...
16. Tippu
Tippu is a playback singer of Indian cinema. He has worked in Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam languages. He has lent his voice to over 4000 songs in the four south Indian languages. His voice for Puneeth Rajkumar went well with the audience. Shiva Shiva Hoguthidde, Hey Hey Paaru, etc are some of his hit songs. His association with music director V Harikrishna is very famous. Tippu has sung for Tamil music composers A R Rahman, Imman, Harris Jayaraj, and Joshua Sridhar.
He has sung the hit Tamil songs Venmathi Venmathi, O Mama from Minnale. The movie had Madhavan in the lead role. Tippu is married to the famous Indian playback singer Harini. Tippu began singing when he was at the age of 19. He received the Karnataka State Film Award and the Kalaimamani Award by Tamilnadu Government for his playback singing.
...17. Velmurugan
Velmurgan is a Play Back Singer in Tamil Film Industry. He was born on 5 March 1980 in Viruthachalam, Tamil Nadu. Velmurgan is a singer, actor, musician, and lyricist. He entered the Tamil film industry in the year 2007. He had sung many folk songs, which include Madura in Subramaniapuram and the Otha Sollala in Aadukalam.
In 2019 he made his place in World Guinness Record; he also got American University Award, best playback singer award (2019, 2018, 2014)Tamil Nadu Government award, and Mirchi award(2020). The list of songs sung by Velmurgan is very long and some of them are Atha Ponnu, Sandalle and Onnam Classile. Velmurgan considers James Vasanthan as one of the turning points in his life.
...18. Pushpavanam Kuppusamy
P. Kuppusamy was born in Tamil Nadu, India. He is a professional lyricist, music composer, vocalist, songwriter and a playback singer in the Tamil Film Industry. He is a very famous Tamil Folk Artist. He has sung in hundreds of stage shows and Tamil films.
He is famous mainly for his effort to bring back a lost form of Tamil folk music namely Naatapura Paatu. The name of his wife is Ankitha Kappusamy. His wife played a major role in his success. Without her support, he would have never reached the level of success that he has achieved till now.
Along with her wife, he has sung folk songs in hundreds of concerts all over the world and has popularized this form of song. He is also a famous playback singer. Both he and his wife worked together to release some audio albums on folk music and sell millions of copies of them.<...
19. 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...
20. D Imman
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.
...21. Premgi Amaren
A native of Chennai, Premgi Amaren is a multi-talented artist. He was born on February 25, 1979. In about a decade-long career, he has been sailing the boat as a playback singer, a film composer, a songwriter as well as an actor, commendably. Hailing from a culture enriched family background, Premgi is the son of renowned music composer and singer Gangai Amaran and younger brother of film director and actor Venkat Prabhu. He is famous as a comedian in Tamil films. Maestro Ilaiyaraja is his uncle.
Premgi initially wanted to be a music composer and to follow his dreams; he commenced his career as an assistant to Yuvan Shankar Raja, his cousin, who is a renowned film music composer. The journey he started never ceased, as soon after, he became a playback singer. He is signi...
22. Yuvan Shankar Raja
23. Vijay Yesudas
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...
24. Vijay Prakash
Vijay Prakash is an Indian playback singer and film composer. He was born in Mysore and moved to Mumbai in 1996. He worked in so many Hindi films including Blue, Yuvraaj, Swades, Kaal, Lakshya, Matrubhoomi, Tere Naam, Cheeni Kum, Raavan, and Force.
He has sung in Kannada, Tamil, Telegu and Malayalam movies. He has also hosted the renowned reality TV show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa on Zee Kannada and has also performed in shows with the great Indian percussionist Ustad Zakir Hussain. Prakash is one of the four singers of the song ‘Jai Ho’, which won the 2008 Academy Award for Best Original Song.
The song also won a Grammy Award in the category ‘Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Medi...
25. Venkat Prabhu
Venkat Prabhu is a multifaceted and multitalented and multidimensional personality in the Tamil Film and Television Industry. He is an actor, director and singer who acts and directs Tamil television shows and movies. Venkat Prabhu, commonly known as Venky among his friends and colleagues, has also rendered his voice as a playback singer and also has several independent singing assignments and albums in his kitty. Before venturing into the glamour industry Venkat Parbhu was an active member of a popular young Music Band that was quite popular across the South India. Venkat Prabhu has also worked on few Malayali projects also. Born on November 7, 1975, to an affluent Tamil family in Chennai and UK, Venkat Prabhu belongs from a family with rich lineage and the legendary music director Illyaraja is his own uncle. Is father, brother,...
26. Singer Karthik