- 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, …
- 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".
- Devi Sri Prasad
Devi Sri Prasad; born 1982) is a musical director and playback singer in South Indian films, especially Tollywood. Born in a small village in East Godavari Dist.(AP), later moved to chennai where he broughtup, he began his musical-direction career in 1999 with "Devi"; Devi Sri Prasad was a disciple of Mandlolin Srinivas, he has directed music for dozens of South Indian films, including such box-office successes as "Manmadhudu", "Varsham", "Venky, …
- 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.
- Lucky Ali
Lucky Ali (born September 19, 1958), born as Maqsood Mehmood Ali, is an Indian singer and composer. He has also acted in Bollywood movies. Lucky is best known for his soulful but strikingly simple ballad-style singing.
- 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.
- 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, …
- N.C. Karunya
NC Karunya (born March 1, 1986) Karunya was born in the city of Hyderabad into a family of classical singers. He has been training in Carnatic music with his guru and uncle NC Murthy since the age of four. His first cousin Hemachandra also made into top 3 contestants of another music talent hunt show "Sa Re Ga Ma Pa" aired on ZEE TV in 2005. He is currently pursuing his B-Tech in Electronics and Communications Engineering.
- Santha Kumari
Vellaala Subbamma (better known as Santhakumari) (17 May, 1920 - 16 January 2006) is an Indian musical artist and film actress. Santhakumari is the wife of the famous yesteryear Telugu Director and Producer P. Pullaiah.
- M. M. Keeravani
M. M. Kreem alias Maragadamani alias M. M. Keera Vaani (also spelt M. M. Keeravani) is a film composer in India. He is also a singer. He is the cousin of Tollywood director S.S. Rajamouli. His projects include "Devaraagam", "Annamayya", "Azhagan", "Vaaname Ellai". He has also composed the music for Bollywood films, "Zakhm", "Sur", "Paheli", "Jism" and "Rog".
- 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.
- Jassie Gift
Jassie Gift is a Malayalam trend setting film music composer and singer from Thiruvananthapuram, India. His first composition is for the movie "Safalam". He has directed music for a kannada film Hudugaata,Acted by GANESH(MUNGAARU MALE). He became popular with his song "Lajjavathiye" for the movie "4 the people". It is later remade into Tamil, and also as "Malliswarive" into Telugu. The song was successful in all languages.
- Ramana Gogula
Ramana Kumar Gogula is a famous music director in Tollywood. He formed his own rock and roll band at Vizag at the age of 17. Since then, he traveled around the world as software professional and music director. His famous albums are "Thammudu", "Premante Idera", and "Yuvaraju". He has also composed the theme music for the occasion of the 70th anniversary celebrations of his alma mater, Timpany School, Vizag.
- Kalyani Malik
Kalyani Malik is a Tollywood music director. He is also the brother of M.M. Keeravani. Since achieving recognition through Chandra Sekhar Yeleti's film "Aithe", Kalyani has provided musical scores for many other small films. His most recent "Boss - I Love You" audio has been an extravagant hit.
- 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.
- 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.
- M. S. Ramarao
M. S. Ramarao (1921-1992) was a famous singer in Andhra Pradesh, India. He gained fame for his Telugu Version of 'Hanuman Chalisa'. He also narrated Sundara Kanda (one part of the epic "Ramayana") in form of Songs in Telugu. He gained fame for his singing the above two works and was awarded the name of 'Sundara Dasu' in 1977.
- 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>
- Sandeep Chowta
Sandeep Chowta is an Indian Bollywood music director. He has also sung some of his songs. Sandeep Chowta is from Mangalore. He started his Bollywood career with the movie Mast. He also sang the title track for the album. He has also done the music for Popcorn entertainment's movie Rakht, an indianized version of The Gift. Apart from Bollywood films, he has given music for about 5 Kannada movies as well. His recent album "Mallika I hate you" was successful.
- 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".
- 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.
- Mamta Mohandas
Mamta Mohandas (born 1985 in Bahrain) is a popular Malaylam actress. She attended the Indian School, Bahrain till 2002. Mamta, who originally hails from Kozhikode, Kerala, grew up in Bahrain and is currently undertaking a degree at Mount Carmel, Bangalore. Before films, Mamta was modelling for quite some time, doing both print ads for such names as IBM and Kalyan Kendra and on the ramp for the Mysore Maharajah and Raymonds. Mamta is trained in Karnatic and Hindustani music.
- Siddharth Narayan
Siddharth Suryanarayan (popularly known as "Siddharth" or "Siddhartha", born 17 April, 1979) is a Tamil-born Indian movie actor who has appeared in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi films.
- 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.
- 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.
- Gurukiran
GuruKiran is a talented music director of Kannada film industry.He is native of Mangalore in Dakshina Kannada district. He has scored music in many Kannada movies in recent times.He received a breakthrough by providing music to Kannada film Upendra. He used western beats in Kannada films, a first among the film music.
- Ghantasala
Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao born in Choutapalli, near Gudivada was a singer and composer of Telugu film music. Gifted with what V.A.K.Ranga Rao called "The most majestic voice", and sound formal music training he received from Sri Patraayani Sitarama Saastri (Saaluuru Chinna Guruvu Garu), he helped Telugu film music develop its own distinct character ,so much so, that, for nearly half a century, his was the voice of Telugu films.
- 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".
- 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, …
- Hemachandra
Hemachandra Veddalla (born 1988) is an Indian playback singer for Tollywood and Bollywood films. <br> Hemachandra was born and brought up in Hyderabad. He has been learning Carnatic music since the age of 13. He competed in Zee TV's Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2005 competition, where he was complimented for having such a unique, strong voice.
- 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.
- 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.
- Chandrabose
Chandrabose is an Indian lyricist who writes songs for Tollywood films. He is also a playback singer as well.
- Mano
Mano is an Indian playback singer. He sings in Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, and Hindi.
- 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.
- Krishnaveni
Ms Krishnaveni (b. 1924) is a veteran Telugu actress, singer and producer. She is also known as C. Krishnaveni and M. Krishnaveni.
- 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".
- 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.
- Benny
Benny is a popular playback singer for films in India. The most recent song he has sung from "Sivaji: The Boss".