What is the real name of the man who penned and sang two songs on the sountrack album Madras?
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Madras (soundtrack) Madras is the soundtrack album of the 2014 Tamil drama film of the same name written and directed by Pa Ranjith and produced by Studio Green. Santhosh Narayanan composed the soundtrack album and background score for the film. The album consists of 5 songs with two theme music instrumental tracks all composed by Santhosh Narayanan. While Gana Bala penned the lyrics for the two songs sung by him, the remaining three were penned by Kabilan and Uma Devi.
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Gana Bala Bala Murugan, better known by his stage name Gana Bala is a playback singer in the Tamil film industry – Kollywood. He rose to prominence after rendering the songs 'Aadi Pona Aavani' and 'Nadukadalula Kappala' from the soundtrack of "Attakathi". He has predominantly sung songs belonging to the gaana genre of Tamil Nadu. He has been credited for reviving the gaana genre in Tamil Cinema after 'Thenisai Thendral' Deva. He has also penned lyrics for some of his songs.
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T. N. Seshagopalan Madurai Thirumalai Nambi Seshagopalan (born, September 5, 1948) is a noted Carnatic singer, musician and composer. He was awarded the Madras Music Academy's Sangeetha Kalanidhi in 2006. As well as being a master of the veena and harmonium, he is an exponent of harikatha.
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Maharajapuram Santhanam Sangeetha Kalanidhi Maharajapuram Santhanam (Tamil: மகாராஜபுரம் ஸந்தானம் ), (December 3, 1928-June 24, 1992) was one of the greatest Carnatic music vocalists of the 20th century. He was awarded the Madras Music Academy's Sangeetha Kalanidhi in 1989. He was born in Sirunangur, a village in the state of Tamil Nadu. He followed the footsteps of his father Maharajapuram Viswanatha Iyer who was also a Carnatic singer.
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Shaan Rahman Shaan Rahman (born 30 December 1979) is an Indian music composer and singer, best known for his compositions in Malayalam cinema, with films such as "Malarvaadi Arts Club", "Thattathin Marayathu", "Om Shanthi Oshaana, Thira, Jacobinte swargarajyam, ann maria kalippilanu ."
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Malaysia Vasudevan Vasudevan Nair (15 June 1944 – 20 February 2011), known as Malaysia Vasudevan was a Tamil playback singer and actor in the Tamil film industry.
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M. G. Radhakrishnan Malabar Gopalan Nair Radhakrishnan (Malayalam: എം. ജി. രാധാകൃഷ്ണന്‍ ; 29 July 1940 – 2 July 2010) was a senior music director and Carnatic vocalist from Kerala. He is highly regarded as one of the most successful light music and film music composer in Malayalam.
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Savvy Gupta Souvik Gupta, known as "Savvy" (Bengali: স্যাভি ), is an Indian music director who has composed and sung songs for Bengali movies from both West Bengal and Bangladesh.
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S. K. Balakrishnan S.K.Balakrishnan (SKB) (March 24, 1935 – August 20, 2001 in Madurai), was Mayor of Madurai, Tamil Nadu between 1980-1981. He is from Sourashtra community with Family name "SOMIN". He lost his father at his young age and his mother Late smt "S.K.Nagalammal" brought him up with her courageous efforts. He grew up with the guidance of his elder brothers Late Sri.S.K.Subbaraman and Late.Sri.S.K.Rajaram. He belongs to ADMK Party and very close to then the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Late Sri. M. G. Ramachandran Popularly known as MGR.
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Na. Muthukumar Na. Muthukumar (12 July 1975 – 14 August 2016) was an Indian poet, lyricist, and author. Best known for his Tamil language film songs, he received the most number of Filmfare Awards for Best Lyricist in Tamil and was a two-time recipient of the National Film Award for Best Lyrics for his works in "Thanga Meenkal" (2013) and "Saivam" (2014).
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Sohail Sen Sohail Sen (born 24 June 1984) is an Indian film composer, musician and singer who works in Bollywood. He debuted as a film composer with the Hindi film "Sirf" (2008), which went majorly
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Madurai Mani Iyer Madurai Mani Iyer (Tamil: மதுரை மணி ஐயர் ) (October 25, 1912 – June 8, 1968) was a Carnatic music singer, who was famous for his unique style. He was one of the most highly celebrated carnatic vocalists during the first half of the 20th century. He, along with his contemporaries Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer and G.N. Balasubramaniam, are referred to as the 20th century male trinity of Carnatic music. He was renowned for his adept skills at singing kalpana swarams, neraval, and raga alapana. His music continues to be highly regarding today.
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Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma Svāti Tirunāḷ‍ Rāma Varma (Malayalam: സ്വാതി തിരുനാള്‍ രാമവർമ്മ ) (16 April 1813 – 27 December 1846) was the Maharaja of the Kingdom of Travancore, British India. He is also considered as a brilliant music composer and is credited with over 400 classical compositions in both Carnatic and Hindusthani style.
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Kancherla Gopanna Kancharla Gopanna (Telugu: కంచర్ల గోపన్న ) (c 1620 – 1680), popularly known as Bhakta Ramadasu or Bhadrachala Ramadasu (Telugu: భద్రాచల రామదాసు ), was a 17th-century Indian devotee of Rama and a composer of Carnatic music. He is one among the famous vaggeyakaras (a person who not only composes the lyrics but also sets them to music; vāk = word, speech; geya = singing, singable; geyakāra = singer) in the Telugu language. Other famous "vaggeyakaras" in Telugu literature, including Annamayya, Tyagaraja, Kshetrayya, and Shyama Sastri. He lived in the village of Nelakondapalli near Bhadrachalam, Telangana during the 16th century and is renowned for constructing a famous temple for Rama at Bhadrachalam. His devotional lyrics to Rama are famous in South Indian classical music as "Ramadaasu Keertanalu". Even the doyen of South Indian classical music Saint Tyagaraja learned his musical compositions. He also wrote Dasarathi Shatakamu (దాశరథి శతకము) with a 'makuTamu' (మకుటము) 'Daasarathee Karunaa payonidhee' (దాశరథీ కరుణా పయోనిధీ!), a collection of nearly 108 poems dedicated to the son of Dasaratha (Lord Rama).
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Soumya Ramakrishnan Soumya Ramakrishnan is an Indian playback singer, working in the Malayalam film industry. She made her debut in the Malayalam film industry after doing some jingles, with 'Thane padum...' in ‘Arabikkatha'. It was ‘Vakkinullile’ from the movie ‘Ozhimuri’, directed by Madhupal that won her several plaudits. Other hit numbers soon followed including ‘We are in Love’ (Minnaminnikoottam), ‘Chiraku veeshi’ (‘Violin’) and ‘Athira’ (Apoorvaragam), Vaakkinullile (Ozhimuri), Muthumani mazhayay (Idiots), Neelakarmukil (Cleopatra), ee pooveyilil (Pakida), Zindagi ki Raah mein (Angry Babies in love), Mazhanila Kulirumai (Vikramadhithyan) and Enthaanu Khalbe (KL 10 Patthu).
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Sorgam Sorgam (Tamil: சொர்க்கம் ; English: Heaven ) is a 1970 Tamil film starring Sivaji Ganesan, Manohar, K. R. Vijaya, Rajasree, Venniradai Nirmala, Nagesh and Balaji in the lead roles. The film was written by Sakthi T. K. Krishnasamy and directed by T. R. Ramanna. It was a great success and ran for over 100 days in theaters.
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M. L. Vasanthakumari Madras Lalitangi Vasanthakumari (Tamil: மெட்ராஸ் லலிதாங்கி வசந்தகுமாரி ) (popularly referred to as MLV) (3 July 1928 – 31 October 1990) was a Carnatic musician and playback singer for film songs in many Indian languages. MLV and her contemporaries D. K. Pattammal and M. S. Subbulakshmi were popularly referred to as the "female trinity of Carnatic Music. A prime disciple of the G. N. Balasubramaniam, she was the youngest among the established musicians of that era, and was the youngest female awardee of the "Sangita Kalanidhi" award.
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Kelvin Tan (born 1964) Kelvin Tan (born 22 August 1964) is a Singaporean musician, writer and lecturer. He has released two novels, "All Broken Up and Dancing" (1992), and "the Nethe(r);R" (2001) and over 102 musical albums. He teaches part-time at LASALLE College of the Arts and is guitarist for The Oddfellows, for whom he wrote and sang the hit "She's So Innocent".
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Don Black (lyricist) Don Black, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 21 June 1938) is an English lyricist. His works have included numerous musicals, movie themes and hit songs. He has provided lyrics for John Barry, Charles Strouse, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Quincy Jones, Lulu, Jule Styne, Henry Mancini, Michael Jackson, Elmer Bernstein, Michel Legrand, Hayley Westenra, A. R. Rahman, Marvin Hamlisch and Debbie Wiseman.
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Jagjit Singh Jagjit Singh, born Jagmohan Singh Dhiman (8 February 1941 – 10 October 2011), was an iconic Indian Ghazal singer, composer and musician. Known as the "Ghazal King", he gained acclaim together with his wife, another renowned Indian ghazal singer Chitra Singh in the 1970s and 1980s. Their combination album comprising music from the films, "Arth" and "Saath Saath" is the HMV's largest selling combination album of all time. "Sajda (An Offering, 1991)", Jagjit Singh's magnum opus double album with Lata Mangeshkar holds the same record in non-film category. He sang in numerous languages. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the government of India in 2003. In February 2014, Government of India released a postal stamp in his honour.
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Twink (musician) John Charles Edward Alder (born 29 November 1944), better known as Twink, is an English drummer, singer and songwriter who was a central figure in the English psychedelic movement, and an actor. Recently, while still recording as Twink, Alder has converted to Islam and changed his name to Mohammed Abdullah.
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Chennaikku Oru Isai Vanakkam Chennaikku Oru Isai Vanakkam (Tamil: சென்னைக்கு ஒரு இசை வணக்கம் ) is a musical tribute to resilient Chennai, created by Angre & Nut. Tune & Concept of this song was done by A’Sam & K’Sam. The song was sung by Sam P. Keerthan & Priya Prakash. Lyrics for this song was written by A’Sam, Ruban, Karthik & Preethy.