Shankar Mahadevan on Muzigle

Shankar Mahadevan is an accomplished musician,composer and singer in Bollywood and Tamil Cinema.Born in the village of Tarakad Gramam, Palakkad District, Kerala, and brought up in Chembur, a suburb of Mumbai to a Tamil Iyer family, he learned Indian classical music and Carnatic music in his childhood and started playing the veena at the age of five.At the onset of his career, He directed and sang for the famous "School Chale Hum" song that used to come on Doordarshan.
His claim to fame was award winning playback rendition in the Tamil movie, Kandukondein Kandukondein followed by a worldwide release of his first music album called Breathless in 1998, in which he sings through the whole song in a single breath. He later got into music direction and became a part of the Shankar Ehsaan Loy trio, composing music for Hindi films.He sang songs in the languages, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, and Marathi.
He enjoyed a successful run with the fusion jazz band SILK with Louis Banks on keyboards, Sivamani on percussion, Sridhar Parthasarathy on mridangam and Karl Peters on bass guitar.Shankar Mahadevan has also provided vocals for several songs by the band Remember Shakti, which features maestros like Zakir Hussain, John McLaughlin, U. Srinivas and Selvaganesh Vinayakram.

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