Nithin Raj

Nithin Raj is a playback singer in Malayalam movies. He is also working as a radio jockey with Radio Mirchi station. Before making his career in singing, he was a regular contestant is various reality singing programs that were hosted in Indian television. He was the runner-up in singing TV shows ’Sangeetha Mahayudham’ which was held in 2010 (Surya TV), a finalist in ‘Idea Star Singer’ hunt contest held in 2007 (Asianet), and a semi-finalist in ‘Super Singer’ contest held in 2006 (Vijay TV). In the year 2013, he also had participated in BIG 92.7 FM's 'Golden Voice' contest and took the fourth position at national level.

Right from his childhood, he had participated in many singing competition and in the year 2014, he came up with his solo album. Two of his songs which were recorded in the album titled ‘Halo’ were composed by Balabhaskar and had a release by Sathyam Audios. One of the songs ‘Pyar Chahta Hun Mein’ topped the chart of huge popularity which was directed by filmmaker Shankar Ramakrishnan Shankar Ramakrishnan is a Mollywood actor and dire >> Read More... . Another solo song in the same musical album ‘Thiruvathira Thiruvarangil” also became highly popular. As a radio jockey, he became a craze in Kerala for hosting a four-hour show Mirchi Fuse Out. Later, he managed to showcase his talent as a lead singer in 'The Q8 Band'.

After achieving huge popularity as a radio jockey and singing hunt talent contest, he managed to give his vocal for even maestro A.R. Rahman. In the year 2010, he gave the voice for A. R. Rahman’s private album ‘Semmozhiyaana Tamizh Mozhiyaam" which was penned by the Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Karunanidhi. It was also the official song for World Tamil Conference held in 2010. This album enabled many leading Tamil artistes of over three generations to perform. In the same year, Nithin lent his voice for a Gujarat theme song ‘'Jai Jai Garvi Gujarat' composed by A.R. Rahman. Impressed by the singer’s voice, Rahman allowed Nithin to provide vocal for movie ' Enthiran Click to look into! >> Read More... ' for the song 'Puthiya Manidha'. But before associating with Rahman, Nithin had sung titled songs like 'Jwaalamukhi' and 'Thathamma' for a Mohanlal movie 'Kurukshetra; which had music by Siddharth Vipin.

This singer got his first break in playback singing in a Tamil movie 'Silandhi' which had music by Karthik. It was a duet song titled 'Idhu Kadhal Minsarama" sung by co-singer Ranina Reddy Ranina Reddy is a playback singer who got associat >> Read More... . So far he has sung two solo songs in Malayalam movies 'Drona 2010 '(2010) and 'Ezhu Sundara Rathrikal'(2013). For Drona-2010, he sang the theme song "Shapa Soorya Shobhayil" which became highly popular. In the year 2015, he lent his voice for ' Friendship Click to look into! >> Read More... ' and 'Fireman'.

Nithin has become a quite demanding playback singer after he lent his voice to songs like "Asku Pasku" (Friendship) and "MaGoBa" (Mannar Mathai Speaking 2).

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Nithin Raj is a radio jockey and a singer. He is referred as a musical RJ. RJ Nithin Raj Nithin Raj is a radio jockey and a singer. He is r >> Read More... is working in the radio station Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM. He was born in Kerala, and he did his schooling in Govt. Higher Secondary School at Bhoothakulam in Paravur, Kollam. He was a student of computer science. He then studied sound engineering. Nithin Raj also worked at Terumo Penpol Private Limited, a blood testing service in Chennai, Tamil Nadu for some time. Nithin Raj was born on the 16th of May. He is married to Anila who is also a radio jockey. Nithin Raj was once part of the Malayalam TV music show Idea Star Singer. He was one of the participants, and he was loved by many for his performances. Nithin Raj has made a lot of independent music before participating in the reality show.

He has recently released a music single named Komali in the Tamil language. For this single, Nithin Raj has performed as a rapper for the first time. He also wrote the part of the rap. Nithin Raj was always fond of rapping. He has done a lot of cover versions of various rap songs. With this song, Nithin Raj got to be introduced as a singer, rapper and lyricist. Nithin Raj is a singer of two songs composed by music director Sidhartha Pradeep Based in Kerala, accomplished Music Director Sidha >> Read More... for the movie Manhole which ended up getting a state award. He also did a cover version of the song Showkali from the movie Acham Yenbathu Madamaiyada which was originally composed by Oscar winner A. R. Rahman. The singers of the song ADK and Sriraskol called Nithin Raj after seeing his cover, and they praised him for his efforts and talent.

They even encouraged him to write the lyrics. But as he was born and brought up in Kerala, Nithin Raj is not proficient in Tamil. Although Nithin Raj's father is from Tamil Nadu, Nithin Raj learned basic Tamil only from movies and songs. When he was a student of sound engineering, Nithin Raj had sung many harmonies for the maestro A. R. Rahman. He was very excited to do those performances as everything is different and valuable when it comes to A. R. Rahman. When he was called to sing, Nithin Raj did not know it was for A. R. Rahman. Only after reaching the recording studio early in the morning and seeing many assistants working on the script of Tamil director Mani Ratnam Mani Ratnam is an Indian filmmaker deeply rooted t >> Read More... , Nithin Raj knew that he is selected to perform for the movie Ravan.