- A. R. Rahman
Allah Rakha Rahman is an internationally renowned musician, best known for composing film scores and soundtracks. In a career spanning over a decade, Rahman has sold more than one hundred million records world-wide, and sold over two hundred million cassettes making him one of the world's top 25 all-time top selling recording artists.
- Asha Bhosle
Asha Bhosle (born September 8, 1933) is an Indian singer. She is best known as a Bollywood playback singer, although she has a much wider repertoire. Her career started in 1943 and has spanned over six decades. She has done playback singing for over 950 Bollywood movies and sold many records. She is the sister of the equally accomplished Lata Mangeshkar. Asha Bhosle is considered as one of the most versatile of South Asian singers — her range of songs includes film music, …
- Ilaiyaraaja
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- Raqueeb Alam
Raqueeb Alam is a popular playback singer for films in India. The most recent song he has sung is "The Boss" from "Sivaji: The Boss".
- Vasundhara Das
Vasundhara Das (born 1977) is an Indian actress and singer. She began acting with the Kamal Hasan film "Hey Ram" (1999) and her playback singing career began when she worked with A. R. Rahman for the Tamil-language film "Mudhalvan". She has also sung for Maestro Ilaiyaraaja in the unreleased Tamil movie 'Dhanush' acted and directed by newcomer A M Gurumani. Vasundhara Das has also recorded her own album of non-film songs, and sung in French, English, Tamil, …
- Vijay Yesudas
Vijay Yesudas is a playback singer for films in India. However he is more well known for being the son of legendary singer Yesudas. The most recent song he has sung is "Sahara" from "Sivaji: The Boss".
- Lata Mangeshkar
Lata Mangeshkar is the melody Queen of India. Lata Mangeshkar has ruled over the hearts of millions of music lovers throughout the world for the last forty years by the magic of her melodious voice. She was born on 29th September 1928, in Indore (Madhya Pradesh) in a family of musicians. She took to singing at the age of 13. She has sung songs based on classical Indian music and ragas, bhajans or devotional songs, romantic and melancholic songs and so on.
- Chinmayi
Chinmayi/Chinmayee/Chiinmayyi K Sripadaa is an Indian playback singer. She made her singing debut in A. R. Rahman's "Kannathil Muthamittal" and since then has sung songs mostly in Tamil films like "Ennaku 20 Unnaku 18", "Boys", "Arinthum Ariyamalum" and "Sandakozhi". Her most recent songs to date is from the recently released Hindi album, "Guru", which has been composed by A.R. Rahman and the Tamil movie Veyil, …
- Blaaze
Blaaze is a RAP artist and a popular playback singer for films in India.His real name is Lakshminarasimha Vijaya Rajagopala Seshadri Sharma Rajesh Raman.. He was born in Chennai, and he grew up in Zambia. He is known for his rapping. However he has appeared in a few songs such as, "Loosu Penne" from Vallavan and "Ennadi" from Vathiyar. The most recent song he has sung is "The Boss" from "Sivaji: The Boss".
- Shankar Mahadevan
Shankar Mahadevan is an Indian singer and music composer. He gained fame for his album entitled "Breathless" in which he apparently sings constantly for 2 minutes and 19 seconds without pausing for taking a breath. He is an engineering graduate trained in Carnatic and Hindustani classical music. Shankar Mahadevan hails from the Tamil Iyer community. In Bollywood he is more popularly known for being part of the Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy trio of music directors.
- K. J. Yesudas
Kattassery Joseph Yesudas (usually referred to as Dr. K. J. Yesudas or Jesudas, Malayalam: കാട്ടശ്ശേരി ജോസഫ് യേശുദാസ് , also nicknamed "Gana Gandharvan") (born January 10, 1940) is an eminent Indian classical musician and leading playback singer of film songs in many Indian languages.
- Sukhwinder Singh
Sukhwinder Singh is an Indian singer, most famous as a Bollywood playback singer. His greatest success is arguably the song "Chaiyya Chaiyya" for Mani Ratnam's 1998 film "Dil Se", composed by A. R. Rahman, for which he won the 'Best Male Playback' award at the 1999 Filmfare Awards in India. Sukhwinder Singh is a leading Bollywood singer. He first performed on stage at the age of 7 or 8, singing the Lata number "Sa re ga ma pa, pa, pa, ga ma re, …
- Naresh Iyer
Naresh Iyer is a playback singer in the Tamil and Hindi film industry. He started his career with a super hit song called "Mayilirage" from the movie Anbe Aaruyire, composed by Music Maestro A. R. Rahman. After that, he's been singing for almost all the music directors in the Tamil movie industry including Srikanth Deva, Sabesh-Murali, D. Imman, Harris Jayaraj and Deva to name a few.
- Suresh Peters
Suresh Peters is a popular playback rapper/singer for films in India. The most recent song she has sung is "Style" from "Sivaji: The Boss". Suresh Peters is the favourite singer of the Anniyan Fame Director Shankar. Kadhalan : Petarap<br> Gentle Man : Chikku Bukku Rail<br> Indian : Theme song<br>
- Udit Narayan
Udit Narayan Jha, popularly known as Udit Narayan is a playback singer in the Hindi, Tamil and Nepali cinema. He was born in a village called Bharadah in Saptari, Nepal.
- Shreya Ghoshal
Shreya (piu) Ghosal (lastname also spelled Ghoshal)(Tamil:ஷ்ரெயா கொஷால்,Telugu:శ్రెయ గోశాల్ ,Hindi:श्रेया गोशाल) (born: March 12, 1984) is an Indian playback singer in the Bollywood film industry.
- Vani Jayaram
Vani Jayram is one of the major female playback singer in India. She has been singing in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi, Hindi and Kannada. She made three times National Film Awards in play back singing.
- Sujatha Mohan
Sujatha Mohan is an Indian playback singer. She has sung in Tamil and Malayalam languages. Sujatha Mohan is the granddaughter of paravur T. K. Narayana Pillai, the first Chief Minister of the erstwhile Cochin State after independence. Her first Tamil hit film song was "Puthu Vellai Mazhai" from Mani Ratnam's 1992 Tamil film "Roja", composed by A. R. Rahman. Working in the industry for over two decades, …
- Saindhavi
Saindhavi is a Carnatic music singer and a South Indian film playback singer. She is learning carnatic and classical music for the past 5 years and currently learning from Sri.N.Sashikiran of carnatica.com and Smt Padmachandilyan and Srimushnam Raja Rao. She is also learning Hindustani music. Saindhavi as a playback singer has given a lot of hit songs in Tamil films, serials and albums. A few popular hit songs are "Andankakka" from the film Anniyan, …
- Madhu Balakrishnan
Madhu Balakrishnan (June 24, 1974) is an Indian playback singer, who sings in Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada languages. He is the brother-in-law of Indian Test cricket and One day cricket Player Sreesanth.
- Sadhana Sargam
Sadhana Sargam is an Indian playback singer. She has sung in many Indian languages. Sadhna Sargam is from a Maharashtran family. She was trained in Indian classical music by her mother at her early childhood and then by Pandit Jasraj by latter on. She is famous for her live concerts and for her live performances.
- S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam is a prolific Indian singer. He is also known as S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, S.P.B. and Baalu in the media.
- P. Susheela
Pulapaka Susheela (born 1935) is an Indian playback singer. She has recorded several songs in many Indian languages including Telugu, language and Kannada. Her career spanned about four decades. Susheela was born in 1935 in Vijayanagaram, Andhra Pradesh. In 1950, music director Nageswara Rao was looking for new talent and scouted for new singers at All India Radio. Of the five people referred, Susheela was selected and Susheela sang her first song, …
- Kavita Subramaniam
Kavita Krishnamurthy, also known as Kavita Subramaniam,(Tamil:கவிதா/ சாரதா கிருஷ்ணமூர்த்தி சுப்ரமணியம், Hindi:कविता/शराधा कृष्णमूर्ति सुब्रमानीयम) is an Indian playback singer. Kavita Krishnamurthy was born born Sharda Krishnamurthy in Delhi in a Tamil family. She moved to Mumbai to pursue her musical career.
- P. B. Sreenivas
P.B. Sreenivas (Prathivadhi Bhayankara Sreenivos and popularly PBS) is a multi-faceted playback singer from South India. He has sung in Kannada, Tamil, and Telugu although he is most well known for his melodious playback singing in the Kannada film industry for Dr.Rajkumar. P.B. Sreenivos is fluent in eight languages (including English and Urdu) and has penned several ghazals in Tamil.
- Malaysia Vasudevan
Malaysia Vasudevan is a Tamil singer who was born in Malaysia. He moved to India and found a career as a singer and actor in stage plays. Later, he started singing for movies and, to date, has nearly 4,000 songs in four South Indian languages to his credit. He has also acted in nearly 85 films. His first song was for the film "Delhi to Madras".
- K. S. Chithra
K. S. Chithra, credited as Chitra, is a singer who has made her mark in the Indian (film) playback industry. Known as the “Nightingale of South India”, she has lent her voice to Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Oriya, Hindi and Bengali films.
- Minmini
Minmini is a South Indian film playback singer. Her first hit song was "Chinna Chinna Aasai" from Mani Ratnam's award-winning 1992 Tamil feature film "Roja", composed by A. R. Rahman. She has lent her voice to hit songs from films including "Karuththamma" (1994), and "Thevar Magan" (1992) where she worked with film composer Ilayaraaja.
- G. Venugopal
G. Venugopal is an Indian playback singer. Most of his contributions to music is in the south Indian language Malayalam. He also has some Tamil and Telugu songs in his credit. Venugopal started his career in the film "Onnu Muthal Poojyam Vare"(1987) and since then has sung in more than 280 films and has over 250 cassettes to his credit. The many awards he has won including the coveted Best Playback Singer (Kerala State) which he has won thrice, …
- S. Janaki
S. Janaki (born April 23, 1938) is an Indian playback singer. She has sung in many Indian languages including Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada. Janaki is also a lyricist and a music composer. A devotee of Lord Krishna and Shirdi Sai Baba, she spends a lot of time praying and has also released devotional music cassettes on Meera.
- Tippu
Tippu is a South Indian film playback singer. He is one of the brightest among the new crop of playback singers in the South Indian movie industry. He is married to another Kollywood Singer Harini.
- Madhushree
Madhushree, previously known as Sujata Bhattacharya, is a singer who sung many songs in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi films. A familiar voice in A. R. Rahman's compositions, Madhushree hails from a musically inclined family, having previously been trained in classsical music. Wanting to be a classical singer, Madhushree joined the Rabindra Bharathi University and completed her masters with flying colours.
- Rags
Rags is a popular playback singer for films in India, he is known for his raps between stanzas. The most recent song he has sung is "Style" from "Sivaji: The Boss".
- Reihana
A. R. Reihana is a popular playback singer for films in India. However she is more widely known as sister to, A. R. Rahman and mother to G. V. Prakash Kumar. The most recent song she has sung is "Balleilakka" from "Sivaji: The Boss".
- Vidyasagar
Vidyasagar the Indian national award winning music director who is presently one of the most sought after music composers in Tamil and Malayalam film industry. From evergreen melody 'Nee Katru' to soulful 'Orey Manam', from fast numbers like 'Appadi Podu' to classical numbers like 'Anandam Anandam' or 'Kana Kandenadi', Vidyasagar has done it all. The master of melodies and playful numbers has lately been composing fast numbers for movies starring Tamil superstars Ajith, …
- Harini
Harini is a South Indian film playback singer who has worked with the film composers A. R. Rahman, Ilayaraaja and Harris Jeyaraj in films including "Indira" (1996), "Indian" (1996), "Iruvar" (1997), "Alaipayuthey" (2000) and "Anniyan" (2005). She is married to another Kollywood Singer Tippu.
- Hariharan
Hariharan (born 3 April, 1955 in Puthan Theruvu (Thiruvananthapuram), Kerala) is an Indian playback singer in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, & Telugu movies, an established "ghazal" singer, and one of the pioneers of Indian fusion music.
- Tanvi
Tanvi is a popular playback singer for films in India. The most recent song she has sung is "Style" from "Sivaji: The Boss". Her hit song to date is "Jillendru Oru Kaadhal" from Sillunu Oru Kaadhal.
- Karthik
Karthik (born November 7, 1980) is an Indian playback singer
- Benny
Benny is a popular playback singer for films in India. The most recent song he has sung from "Sivaji: The Boss".