Shankar Mahadevan
a.k.a. : Shankar Ehsaan Loy

Shankar Mahadevan is a singer and music composer, a part of the Shankar Ehsaan Loy trio that provides music to Bollywood films. Though a software engineer by profession who has worked with Oracle Corporation, Shankar's interest in music made him venture into the field of music.
His very first award as a playback singer was the National Film Award for his song in the film Kandukondain Kandukondain. AR Rahman was the music director. A prominent star in the Kodambakkam film industry, he later gained more recognition with his first music album called Breathless. On the title track of the album, his vocals are edited together so that he seems to sing through the whole song in a single breath. He has sung in many other movies for A. R. Rahman, Anu Malik and other music directors, performing songs like "Urvashi Take It Easy" from Humse Hai Muqabla (1995), "I Love You" from Auzaar (1997), "Kay Sera Sera" from Pukar (2000) and many more songs in the nineties. He sings songs in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada...

Shankar Mahadevan is a singer and music composer, a part of the Shankar Ehsaan Loy trio that provides music to Bollywood films. Though a software engineer by profession who has worked with Oracle Corporation, Shankar's interest in music made him venture into the field of music.
His very first award as a playback singer was the National Film Award for his song in the film Kandukondain Kandukondain. AR Rahman was the music director. A prominent star in the Kodambakkam film industry, he later gained more recognition with his first music album called Breathless. On the title track of the album, his vocals are edited together so that he seems to sing through the whole song in a single breath. He has sung in many other movies for A. R. Rahman, Anu Malik and other music directors, performing songs like "Urvashi Take It Easy" from Humse Hai Muqabla (1995), "I Love You" from Auzaar (1997), "Kay Sera Sera" from Pukar (2000) and many more songs in the nineties. He sings songs in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, and Marathi. In Marathi he has sung for noted composers like Shridhar Phadke and Ajay-Atul. He is also a mentor on Zee TV's musical reality show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2009.He was music director for the famous School chale hum song that used to come on Doordarshan (DD). He also continues to make music for movies in the Shanker Ehsaan Loy trio.

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