Shankar Mahadevan is an Indian singer and music composer. An accomplished musician in Tamil cinema, he is a part of the Shankar Ehsaan Loy trio team that provides music to Bollywood films.
Shankar Mahadevan was born in Chennai, India to a Tamil family and a Malayali father, and grew up in Mumbai. He learned Indian classical music and Carnatic music in his childhood and started playing Veena at the age of five. He played Veena in the first song of...
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Shankar Mahadevan is an Indian singer and music composer. An accomplished musician in Tamil cinema, he is a part of the Shankar Ehsaan Loy trio team that provides music to Bollywood films.
Shankar Mahadevan was born in Chennai, India to a Tamil family and a Malayali father, and grew up in Mumbai. He learned Indian classical music and Carnatic music in his childhood and started playing Veena at the age of five. He played Veena in the first song of Bhimsen Joshi and Lata Mangeshkar together composed by Shrinivas Khale. He went to OLPS High School in Chembur. He graduated in 1988 with a degree in Computer Science Engineering from R.A.I.T (D Y Patil, Navi Mumbai), under the auspices of Mumbai University. As of now he sings songs in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, and Marathi.
Though a software engineer by education and having earlier worked with the Oracle Corporation, Shankar's interest in music made him venture into the field of music. He earned his first award as a playback...
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