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Roshan Sebastian is a Singer, Music Producer & Mixing/Mastering Engineer who is working in the Indian Film Industry. He was awarded, The Expressive Singer, in Airtel Super Singer Junior Season 1, which premiered in February 2007 to July 2007. He was also the Runner Up In Vijay TV Airtel Super Singer Junior Season 2, which premiered on 21st June 2009 - 17th June 2010.
Roshan Sebastian, born on June 19, 1997, in Kannur, Kerala, is the son of K.D. Sebastian and Mini Sebastian. His mother tongue is Malayalam, but he has spent the majority of his life in Tamil Nadu, first in Coimbatore and currently in Chennai. In 2007, he gained recognition by winning the 'Best Expressive Singer' award in Airtel Super Singer Junior Season 1.
He completed his graduation from Loyola College, Chennai, in 2018. He has studied Hindusthani vocals under Shri Kuldeep Sagar, achieving a Senior Diploma, and has also trained in piano with Shri Sadanandam, a guitarist associated with renowned music director Ilayaraja. Following his graduation, he pursued a course in Music Production and Audio Engineering under Shri Hentry Kuruvila, who has worked as a programmer for A.R. Rahman. As of now, Roshan is active as a Music Producer and Audio Engineer in the film industry.
He entered Airtel Super Singer Junior Season 1 in the year, 2007, and became the semi-finalist and was awarded Best Expressive Singer. [1] Followed by that in the year, 2008, he participated in Gandharva Sangeetham in Kairali TV and became the first runner up and received Yesudas Award from the legend Dr.K. J. Yesudas. In the year, 2009, he again participated in Vijay TV Airtel Super Singer Junior (season 2) and was among the top 5 finalists. He is also nicknamed as Paadum Ilaya Nila — the senior paadum nila being none other than legendary S. P. Balasubrahmanyam. In June 2021, he lend his vocals for a Telugu music video "Daare Leda" , composed by Vjai Bulganin, written by KK and featuring Satyadev Kancharana and Roopa Koduvayur. [2] It is produced by Nani. The music video was released in Tamil as "Vaanam Thoandraadhoa".
Kattassery Joseph Yesudas is an Indian playback singer and musician who sings Indian classical, devotional and film songs. He is widely considered one of the greatest singers in the history of Indian music and a cultural icon of Kerala. Yesudas is estimated to have recorded more than 50,000 songs in various Indian languages, including Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Tulu, Hindi, Odia, Bengali, Marathi as well as Arabic, English, Latin, and Russian, in a career spanning six decades. He is often referred to as Gaanagandharvan. Yesudas holds the record for singing 11 songs in different languages in a single day. He has also composed a number of Malayalam film songs during the 1970s and 1980s.
Paliyath Jayachandran is an Indian playback singer and actor from Kerala. He has worked with many composers including G. Devarajan, M. S. Baburaj, V. Dakshinamoorthy, K. Raghavan, M. K. Arjunan, M. S. Viswanathan, Ilaiyaraaja, Koti, Shyam, A. R. Rahman, M. M. Keeravani, Vidyasagar and M Jayachandran. He has sung more than 16000 songs in total in different languages. He also acted in few films.
Shankar Mahadevan is an Indian singer and composer who is part of the Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy trio that writes music for Indian films. In 2023, he was awarded a honorary doctorate by Birmingham City University.
K. J. Yesudas is a multilingual singer, singing Indian classical music, devotional, light music, and film songs. His commercially published recordings span multiple genres.
Jyotsna Radhakrishnan is an Indian playback singer. She predominantly works in 12 languages including Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. She has sung more than 1000 songs. She is based in Thrissur, Kerala. Jyotsna gained wider recognition for singing popular songs such as “Karuppinazhaku” from Swapnakoodu (2003), “Themma Themma Themmadikkatte” from Rain Rain Come Again (2004) and "Raftara" from Lucifer (2019).
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Mechery Louis Ouseppachan, known mononymously as Ouseppachan, is an Indian film composer and singer who primarily works in Malayalam films. He is a recipient of National Film Award, Filmfare Award and Kerala State Film Awards for his numerous film soundtrack albums and background scores.
Madhusoodanan Jayachandran Nair is an Indian composer, singer, and musician. He has won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Music Director a record number of nine times. In 2005, he also won the state award for best male singer. In 2015, he won the National Film Award for Best Music Direction for the film Ennu Ninte Moideen. He has composed music for 126 films.
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Airtel Super Singer Junior – Ithu Thamizhagathin Chellakuralukkana Thedal – is a reality TV show since February 2007 hosted by Vijay TV, a popular Tamil channel of the Star Network, and sponsored by Bharti Airtel. It is a singing talent hunt for the children of age group 6–15. This is the junior version of the Airtel Super Singer show, which premiered on 28 April 2006. Auditions are held in various parts of Tamil Nadu, India. The show attracts many kids from all over the state and rigorous multi-level selection procedures are done in order to select the contestants for the competition. The tenth season launched on 16th November 2024.
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Dr Yazin Nizar, also credited as Yasin, is a playback singer working mainly in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi-language films, with over 1000 film songs with several multilingual chart busters. He is the singer of Oscar Award-winning Naatu in Tamil and Malayalam.
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