Karthik
a.k.a. : Karthik

Karthik born 7 November 1980 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu is an Indian playback singer.Karthik started his professional singing career as a backing vocalist and has since been a playback singer in Tamil cinema while also single in other Indian languages for various composers. Karthik has sung in multiple languages including Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi among others.Karthik developed an interest in music, early in his life. He is a trained Carnatic music vocalist and has been training since his school days (For 4 years). He was part of a college band and regularly participated in IIT Madras Fest ‘Sarang’.Being an ardent fan of A. R. Rahman, Karthik is known to have a dream of meeting Rahman and sing for him. Karthik's close friend's cousin happened to be popular singer Srinivas, who sang many songs for Rahman. During their brief chat, Srinivas encouraged Karthik to look at singing more seriously. Taking cue, Karthik resumed his singing lessons.After nearly a year since his meeting with Srinivas...

Karthik born 7 November 1980 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu is an Indian playback singer.Karthik started his professional singing career as a backing vocalist and has since been a playback singer in Tamil cinema while also single in other Indian languages for various composers. Karthik has sung in multiple languages including Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi among others.Karthik developed an interest in music, early in his life. He is a trained Carnatic music vocalist and has been training since his school days (For 4 years). He was part of a college band and regularly participated in IIT Madras Fest ‘Sarang’.Being an ardent fan of A. R. Rahman, Karthik is known to have a dream of meeting Rahman and sing for him. Karthik's close friend's cousin happened to be popular singer Srinivas, who sang many songs for Rahman. During their brief chat, Srinivas encouraged Karthik to look at singing more seriously. Taking cue, Karthik resumed his singing lessons.After nearly a year since his meeting with Srinivas, he telephoned Karthik in relation to an opportunity with Rahman. Rahman needed fresh voices for backing vocalists for a song from Pukar and Srinivas recommended Karthik's name. Karthik eventually got the opportunity and recorded for the song.Having spent over a year being a backing vocalist, Karthik got his break during the re-recording of One 2 Ka 4. For the background score of one of the scenes in the movie, A. R. Rahman wanted a high-pitched alap and Karthik along with other chorus singers gave a shot at it. Rahman finally chose Karthik to sing the alap which he did. Soon after, Rahman asked him to sing the song Nendhukittaen from the film Star.Karthik is known for his versatility in the industry which gave him opportunity to sing a variety of songs.He performed in cultural fest of BITS-Pilani Hyderabad campus on 27 March 2010.Karthik has sung a number of songs for many popular music directors, including A. R. Rahman, Ilayaraaja, Vidyasagar, Yuvan Shankar Raja and Harris Jeyaraj. Karthik has sung songs in several languages – Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada. Ennaku Oru Girlfriend from the Tamil movie Boys was one of the biggest hits of the year as was Oru Maalai from the 2005 film Ghajini. His songs for Telugu films for Kotha Bangaru Lokam (Nijanga Nenanaa), Happy Days(Arare Arare, Oh My Friend) are very popular. His other popular songs include the Gaana inspired "Ava Enna" from the 2009 film Vaaranam Aayiram, "Behka" from Ghajini and "Alle Alle" from the Kannada movie Savaari.In 2010, he sang a track "Behene De", from Hindi film Raavan, which is widely considered as the biggest song in his career. The track, which remained top in music charts for many continuous weeks, also received rave critical reviews. It was composed by Rahman and penned by Gulzar. Karthik also performed the Tamil and Telugu versions of the same song, titled "Usure Poghudhey" and "Usire Poyene" respectively.Karthik performed with the guitarist/music director Bennet from kerala at Festember 08, the annual cultural fest of NIT Trichy and Ragam 08, the annual cultural fest of the National Institute of Technology Calicut, on 28 March 2008. Karthik has sung at the recent Indian Premier League Twenty 20 cricket events held in Chennai. Karthik with Bennet performed at Nova 9, the ninth foundation week celebration of UST Global in Thiruvananthapuram on August 22, 2008. He again performed with Bennet in Thiruvananthapuram as part of the 11th foundation week celebrations of UST Global.
He has also performed with his full zeal along with Bennet Roland in Techofes'10 the annual cultural festival of College of Engineering, Guindy (CEG), Chennai. He also performed in a International Carnival graVITas 2010 in VIT university Vellore on 17 September 2010. He has also performed for Annual Function (JASHN'10) of Multi National Company Capgemini Hyderabad in Dec 2010.He married Ambika on July 12, 2006 in Tirupathi and been blessed with a baby girl.He has composed music for a multi lingual Coca Cola Advertisement (for Rajeev Menon featuring Actor Vijay). and also for Prince Jewellery advertisements. He is the music director upcoming Vasanthabalan's upcoming film Aravaan.

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