Rakshita Suresh
Anu Anand
Sukanya Varadarajan
Benita Maria Yazhini
Singer Malavika
Ramya Subramanian
Poornitha Kalyani
Malgudi Subha
P Susheela
S. Janaki
Sadhana Sargam
Sudha Raghunathan
Pragathi Guruprasad
KS Chithra
Sephy S Sanal
Anjana - Singer
Aajeedh Khalique
Gowtham Bharadwaj
Rajaganapathy
Sivakarthikeyan
Ma Ka Pa Anand
Mano
Ananth Vaidyanathan
P. B. Sreenivas
M S Viswanathan
Nithyasree Mahadevan
Pushpavanam Kuppusamy
Rajkumar Bharathi
P Unnikrishnan
Jayanth - Singer
1. Rakshita Suresh
Rakshita Suresh is an Indian playback singer. She is well known for her vocals in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, and Kannada songs. The young singer has already developed a good fan base in India, majorly South-India. Her lovely voice enthralled the hearts of the youngsters. Rakshita first came into the limelight when she participated on the singing reality show, Super Singer Juniors.
She took birth in Mysore, Karnataka on 1st June 1998. She went to the Mahabodhi School in Mysore from where she completed her primary education. Later, she went to the Rotary West School for high schooling. She did her intermediate from Sadvidya Composite Pre-University College. Currently, she is pursuing an M.Sc. degree in Mysore. Rakshita was born into a good family; her father is a businessman father, and her mother is a software engineer.
2. Anu Anand
Anu Anand is a young Indian playback singer. She is a well-known artist in the Tamil Film Industry and has a fan following all over South India. She performs in duets, stage shows, and musical concerts. Anu has also collaborated with several leading South Indian singers such as Madhu Balakrishnan, Unni Menon, S.P. Balasubrahmanyam, Mano, and others.
Anu rose to fame in the year 2012, when she appeared in the singing reality show Airtel Super Singer Junior. After that, she released some albums and sang in Tamil movies. Anu took birth in Mannargudi, Thiruvarur, India on 31st March 2000. Her father is Anand, while her mother is Aasha. Anu is the youngest child in the family of two, her elder sister studies at Leo Matriculation Higher Secondary School in Chennai.
Her career started at a young age of twelve. In 2012, she too...
3. Sukanya Varadarajan
Sukanya Varadarajan is a singer who was born in Palakkad, Kerala, on 29th June. She did her schooling at Vijayamatha Convent at Palakkad. She is a graduate of Bio-Technology. Sukanya is passionate about singing right from her childhood. She was one of the contestants in Star Vijay’s “Super Singer Junior 3.” KS Chithra, "Mano," and Malgudi Shuba were the show's judges, and Anand Vaidyanathan was the voice trainer. Sukanya managed to enter the finals and received the Creative Singer award. In the grand finale, Aajeedh Khalique was the winner, and the first two runners were Pragathi Guruprasad and Yazhini.
Later, Sukanya took part in another singing reality show in Zee Tamil, Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Season 2, and impressed the audience and the judges. She was one of the top 5 contestants in the show. She com...
4. Benita Maria Yazhini
Benita Maria Yazhini is a playback singer predominantly working in the Tamil Film Industry. She hails from the town of Trichy, Tamil Nadu.
Benita appeared in Airtel Super Singer Junior(Season 3), which aired on Vijay TV. She was one of the most popular contestants of the season.
Benita was the second runner-up of the show. In 2014, she debuted as a playback singer in the song “Enga Ooru Vandi” movie “Pannaiyarum Padminiyum.”
The music for the film was composed by debutant Justin Prabhakaran. She then went on to sing in the movies Pasanga2 (Chotta Bheema) and “Azhagu Kutti Chellam (Boom Shikalaka Boom).
The music for the films was composed by Arrol Corelli and Ved Shankar, respectively. Benita Maria Yazhini is pursuing her B.E(Computer Science) degree from RRCE College. She i...
5. Singer Malavika
Malavika is a well-known singer in the Telugu film industry. She was born to Ganesan and Savitri on July 6th, 1988 in Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. She sang her first movie song Nuvvu Nenu Kalisunte of the Gangotri movie.
She has a unique voice, which gives many chances to her. She is a sincere and hardworking singer. She was appreciated by everyone in the Telugu film industry. In the early age, she learned music from her mother. Then, she trained in classical music by Kum Mandapaka Sarada.
She studied in Little Angels School in Vishakapatnam, and in this school, her mother used to teach music to the students. Malavika got a chance for singing in the films, and due to this they had to move to Hyderabad. From her child hood, she actively participated in many reality shows and music contests and won many awards.
6. Ramya Subramanian
Ramya Subramanian is a very popular TV host and actress. Ramya hails from Chennai. Many of them can easily identify her as VJ Ramya. She is one of the most endowed actresses in the Tamil film industry. She is well known for the characters she chooses to do in the films. In the year 2004, she participated in Ms. Chennai competition. She was among the finalists in that competition. Before emulating in such a candidacy, she was already done with her first project, a movie named “The Missing.” In that talkie, she portrayed the role of a doctor. Subsequently, she continued with her acting career.
Before that, she hosted a few TV shows like “Kalakkapovadhu Yaar?”,“Ungalil Yaar Adutha Prabhudeva?”, “Namma Veetu Kalyanam...
7. Poornitha Kalyani
Kalyani is popular for her screen name, Poornitha. She is a South Indian actress, born in November 23, 1990 in Tamil Nadu. She lives and rose in Bangalore and her mother tongue is Kannada. She can speak the Telugu, Hindi, Kannada, Hindi and English languages. She is mostly seen in Telugu, Tamil and Kannada. She started her acting career on her early age through some television series. One summer, while playing outside her house, a shoot is currently happening near her place. One of the artists did not attend and so, the production asked Kalyani if she can do the role and that was her very first offer in the industry.
She became popular when she played as Julie in the 2001 Tamil drama film, Alli Thanda Vaanam along with Prabhu Deva. Her acting was ...
8. 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...
9. P Susheela
P. Susheela is a well-known playback singer in South Indian film industry, who has received five National awards for the talent she posses. P. Sheela was born on 13th November 1935. She has been associated with the film industry for over six decades now. She is a legendary artist who has the purest form of vocal strength, with great syllabic pronunciations. She is mainly noted for her honey like sweet voice; that can speak fluently and deliver the word or the lyrics sung so distinctly and clearly. Sheela, from her childhood, discovered itself the talent she has and the passion she feels for it. Thus, she went for classical music training and perfected her skill. She was seen to sing for AIR (All India Radio). And it was from here that she got the opportunity to sing as playback for films. She can sing fluen...
10. S. Janaki
As popularly known, The Nightingale of South, S. Janaki was born as Sishtla Sreeramamurthy on 23rd April 1938 in Repalle, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. Her childhood love for music turned out to be her talent, and she started performing at a tender age of three. Her voice is compared to Lata Mangeshkar, and Janaki has a large fan following because of her mesmerising voice that can connect your soul to any song. She learnt music from Sree Paidiswamy, who was a nadaswaram teacher. When Janaki was 20 years of age, her uncle Dr Chandrasekhar advised her to move to Chennai and join AVM studios. Her voice got recognition as a playback singer in Tamil films. Her debut as a playback singer was a Tamil flick, Vidhiyin Vilayattu (1957). She has sung over 40,000 songs in various languages.
11. Sadhana Sargam
Sadhana Sargam is a playback singer of Indian cinema who predominantly now sings in South Indian and Bengali films. She debuted in Bollywood as a singer and has done playback singing in many Hindi films. She had initial training under her mother Neela Ghanekar, who was a classical singer too. Born as Sadhana Ghanekar in Mumbai on March 7, 1974, she changed her name to Sadhana Sargam on advice given by Kalyanji Anandji, who had promoted her singing career.
Before starting her first playback chance in Tamil film, she had the privilege of singing along with other playback singers such as Alka Yagnik, Anuradha Paudwal, and Kavita Krishnamurthy. Sadhana has sung in many Indian languages for films, TV series and music albums. She is the only Indian playback singer who ha...
12. Sudha Raghunathan
Sudha Raghunathan is an Indian classical singer who is renowned for her skilled Carnatic style of music. Her career has been highlighted by several concerts, and she has also worked as a musical director in the Tamil film industry. Sudha was a naturally talented singer who began her training when she was but a toddler. Her mother initiated her musical education with devout Hindu bhajans and sons, all of which she was quick to absorb. She later studied under B V Lakshman. The Indian Government awarded her with a scholarship to learn under the tutelage of the artist, Dr. M L Vasantha Kumari, in 1977. During this period, she underwent rigorous training in the Gurukula style, where all learning was in the form of observation and vocal instruction. She accompanied professionals on their concerts and developed her musical prowess. Throu...
13. Pragathi Guruprasad
Pragathi Guruprasad was born in the year 1997 in Singapore to Guru Prasad and Kanaga. She learnt Carnatic music from the age of 5 through her father. Their family relocated to California and there she learnt the vocal Carnatic from Sangeetha Swaminathan. Sangeetha was the student of the popular Carnatic vocalist Sudha Ragunathan. Due to her passion in music, her father took her to Chennai to participate in Airtel Super Singer, which was organized by Star Vijay TV. Pragathi’s talent was really enjoyed by the judges as well as the voice trainer Ananth Padmanabhan. As Pragathi is well versed in Carnatic music, she was able to move up to the next level in the competition easily. She was one among the competitors in the final of the Airtel Super Singer junior Season 3 held on 2012. She has won the hearts of the viewers as well as the ...
14. 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...
15. Sephy S Sanal
16. Anjana - Singer
17. Aajeedh Khalique
Aajeedh Khalique is an Indian playback singer. He has primarily worked in the South Indian industry. Some of his songs are Enakkondrum Vaanveli, Angry birds of movie Poovarasam Peepee. He has a large number of followers on his social media platforms. He has a YouTube channel on which he posts his music videos. He has been the Winner in Super Singer Junior 3 hosted by Vijay TV, a reality singing competition.
As he is having a lot of followers on social media, he has been a part of several popular commercials. He earned popularity through lip-syncing application Tik Tok. He is considered as one of the most popular Tik Tok stars in India. Not only Tik Tok, but he is also famous for photo-sharing applications like Instagram.
Aajeedh, who is much interested in music at a very young age, received support from his parents. His...
18. Gowtham Bharadwaj
Gowtham Bharadwaj is a singer who predominantly worked on South Indian movies and is part of the music band Staccato. Gowtham Bharadwaj was one of the finalist competitors of Airtel Super Singer 1 in 2006 after successfully clearing six rounds of competition. He was selected from the Chennai zone through Airtel mobile registration. Gowtham Bharadwaj was pursuing his degree at Guru Nanak College. He had training in classical music for five years from K. V Ramanujam before entering the competition.
His ambition was to become a renowned playback singer. After college, he was focused on his career and his music. Gowtham Bharadwaj was successful as a chartered accountant and even went to New York for a year. He was learning music from Ganesh Rajagopalan and balanced both his ...
19. Rajaganapathy
Rajaganapathy is an Indian singer who practices Carnatic music from the age of 3. He was born and brought up in Melur, Madurai. He is well known for his contribution to the reality television program Airtel Super Singer on Vijay TV. First, he was a part of Super Singer Junior season 3, and after that, he came back as a wildcard entry in season 5 on great public demand. Rajaganapathy recorded his first song as a playback singer for director D Imman for the film Podhuvaga En Manasu Thangam. He had also sung for the film Semma, which was composed by G V Prakash Kumar.
At the age of five, Rajaganapahy started learning Carnatic music. Umashankar, one of the disciples of Bombay Sisters, was his first guru. Later, he learned music from AS Murali, one of the disciples of PS Narayanaswami. Rajaganapathy started ...
20. Sivakarthikeyan
Sivakarthikeyan is a stand-up comedian, actor, and an anchor born on 17th February 1985 in Singampunari, Tamil Nadu. He was born to an Engineer father and has a sister who is a doctor. He was in Campion Anglo-Indian Higher Secondary School in his school years and graduated from JJ College of Engineering and Technology and holds a degree in B.E. Later. he went on to do MBA from Indian Institute of Planning and Management Chennai. He was participative in his college in theatre and stand-up comedy. It was the gap he had between his engineering and MBA he participated in a Star Vijay reality show, Kalakku Povathu Yaaru after he was forced by his friends and eventually won the show.
He made an appearance in a dance reality show with Aishwarya Prabhakar as his partner in Jodi Number One Season 3 followed by Boys vs. ...
21. Ma Ka Pa Anand
Ma Ka Pa Anand is a famous, entertaining Television Host. He is known fondly as Ma Ka Pa. Anand was born in Pondicherry. His life revolved around Pondicherry. He did his schooling; under graduation as well as Post Graduation is his home place. Anand graduated with MBA in the field of International Management. He then shifted to Dubai and worked as a Radio Jockey, in the popular station, Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM. After working in Dubai for six years,
Anand moved to Coimbatore and continued his stint as a Radio Jockey in Radio Mirchi station for a year. Later, he was signed up as the Video Jockey for Vijay Television to anchor the show Cinema karam Kaapi. The show became a hit because of the witty host and the entertaining content. This show shot him to fame. Anand has the tal...
22. Mano
Mano (Real name- Nagoor Babu) is a famous South Indian playback singer. He was not only a great singer but also a voice-over artist, an actor, a producer, a television anchor and a music composer. He was born to Father Rasool (Musician in All India Radio) and Mother Shaheeda (stage actress) on 26th October 1963 in Satterapalli, Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, he joined the stage theater and had role played as many historical characters. As he had said in an interview “I have always been impressed by my dear mother’s talent and she has always been and will always be my inspiration.”
In the year 1984, he recorded his debut original for the Tamil movie “Karpoora Deepam”. Impressed by his singing skills and his magical voice he was approached...
23. Ananth Vaidyanathan
Ananth Vaidyanathan, born in Jamshedpur in the year 1957, is a voice expert in India. He is a part of many music shows which include Josco Indian Voice which was telecast on Mazhavil Manorama channel and Airtel Super Singer, etc. In these shows, he gives vocal training to the contestants. At a very young age, Ananth Vaidyanathan started studying music. He learned his first songs from his father who is an untrained singer. At the age of seven, Ananth started learning music and became a student of T.M. Thiagarajan and Sangita Kalanidhi. He got his undergraduate degree in economics from Loyola College, Chennai. After doing MBA from Xavier School of Management (XLRI), he joined ITC Sangeet Research Academy, a musical school in Kolkata but because of some errors in methods of training his voice got damaged.
Although, in 1980’s...
24. P. B. Sreenivas
Prathivadi Bhayankara Sreenivas was born on the 22nd of September in the year 1930. He passed away in the year 2013 on 14th of April. He was a very famous playback singer of our country. Born in Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, he has sung in almost all the languages in India. We can also find his songs in the Hindi language. He has also sung in Kannada films, Konkani films, Hindi films and much more. In his career he had sung over three thousand songs. He was mostly known for his contribution to the Tamil, Kannada and Telugu film Industries. He sang most of his songs in Kannada, though he has sung in all the main languages in India.
He died in Chennai at the age of 82. P. B. Sreenivas was born to P. B. Phanindraswamy. His mother’s name was Seshagiriamma. His mother was a musician whereas his father used to work in civil platfor...
25. M S Viswanathan
M.S.Viswanathan, who is fondly known as M.S.V., was born in Palakkad. Manayangth Subramanian Viswanathan is a famous Music Composer, Singer, and Actor. This celebrated Musician has been given the title ‘MellisaiMannar’ by the legendary actor Sivaji Ganesan. He has created music for Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam Films.
Predominantly, M.S.V has composed for South Indian movies. Recently in the year 2012, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu had granted the title ‘ThiraiulagaIsaiChakravarthy’ on M.S.Vfor his formidable stint in the music field. M.S.V came into the cine field with the passion for acting and singing. He was not successful in his initial days that is in the period of 1940s. He started his career by playing small roles in...
26. Nithyasree Mahadevan
Nithyasree Mahadevan is a renowned vocalist in Carnatic genre of classical music and had taken up music seriously since her childhood. She had so far lent her voice in over 750 musical albums and has participated in all major musical concerts and Sabhas that propagate the growth of Carnatic music across the world. For her performance in musical concerts, she has been awarded many degrees and honors and had been able to take forward the legacy of devotional songs penned by Gopalakrishna Bharati. Nithyasree Mahadevan holds a unique record of performance on ‘Raga Bhairavi’ for a consistent three hours program and singing a total of 17 compositions on raga Bhairavi.
This Carnatic singer has taken the path of her other mentors like D. K. Jayaraman and D. K. Pattammal for popularizing the compositions and...
27. 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.<...
28. Rajkumar Bharathi
Rajkumar Bharathi is a professional Music Composer and a Classical Singer in films. Subramanya Bharathi is his great grandfather. He is an educated person with a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical and Telecommunications Engineering. He obtained this Degree from a college named College of Engineering in Chennai. Chennai was his birthplace. He is a very famous, popular and talented singer in the country. He is also famous in the state of Karnataka because he has a unique style of singing the Dasara Podagulu, which is a native music for the Karnataka people. Rajkumar began to practice music since the age of five.
He was taught by her mother L. Bharathi. Later on, he also got expert training under maestros like T. V. Gopalakrishnan, Balamuralikrishna and much more. Rajkumar had to be attracted and influenced by music because his...
29. P Unnikrishnan
P. Unnikrishnan, the playback singer, needs no introduction to music lovers. His voice is equally suitable for classical music, film music, devotional music and even light music. The actor has sung many devotional songs of Lord Ganesha, Lord Ayyappan, Lord Venkateswara, and Devi among others. This singer is a disciple of Dr. S. Ramanathan.
Unnikrishnan has balanced both classical music and light music well and never allowed him to get carried away for just compulsion of cinematic glamor. Unnikrishnan had the capacity to reach higher levels, provided he did not get lost in star value. That is why many bring comparison with famous K J Yesudas.
This Carnatic vocalist was born on July 9, 1964, in Palakkad, Kerala. He, however, did his schooling and college studies in Chennai. He even worke...
30. Jayanth - Singer