Shankar Mahadevan is a popular Indian playback singer and music composer. He is a member of the famous Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy musical trio. He is famous for singing the song “Breathless”.
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Shankar Mahadevan was born on Friday, March 3, 1967 in Chembur suburb of Mumbai (age 52 years 2019). He studied at Our Lady of Perpetual Succor High School and Swami Vivekananda High School, Chembur. He received his postgraduate degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering from Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology, Navi Mumbai in 1988. By the age of 5, Shankar had become an accomplished organist and started playing the veena. He learned Hindustani classical music from Pandit Shrinivas Khale.
Shankar Mahadevan’s mentor Pandit Shrinivas Khale
He also received guidance in Carnatic classical music from TR Balamani.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′6″
Eye color: black
Hair color: black
family, caste and wife
Shankar Mahadevan belongs to the Tamil Iyer Family, which hails from Palakkad City in Kerala.
Shankar Mahadevan and his mother
Shankar Mahadevan has a sister named Deepika Shringarpure.
Shankar Mahadevan and his sister
Shankar is married to Sangeeta Shankar Mahadevan.
Shankar Mahadevan and his wife
The couple has two sons, singer Shivam Shankar Mahadevan (born 2001) and singer-composer Siddharth Mahadevan (born April 16, 1993).
Shankar Mahadevan and his sons
Profession
as a singer
Before getting involved in the music industry, Shankar worked as a software programmer at Oracle Corporation. Shankar started his music career by singing songs for commercials. Shankar Mahadevan made his acting debut in the 1994 film Humse Hai Muqabala (Hindi version of the Tamil film – Kadhalan), in which he sang two songs, “Petta Rap” and “Urvasi Urvasi”.
He made his Bollywood debut with the song “Tum Nahi Jaana” from the film Duplicate (1998). He has sung many hit songs like “Chamma Chamma”, “Bhumbro Bhumbro”, “Ghanan Ghanan”, “Maahi Ve”, “Kajra Re”, “Mitwa”, “Sau Aaso” and many more. In 1998, he released his first album “Breathless”, which made Shankar famous in one fell swoop. The songs in the album were composed by Javed Akhtar.
He made his Tamil debut with the song “Netru No No” from the film “VIP (1997)”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwG1u4EeK8I
He made his Telugu debut in 1998 with the song “Shivamethara Sambayya” from the film “Antahpuram”. Shankar made his Kannada debut with the song “Dennana Dennanaa” from the film “Janumadatha (1999)”.
He made his Malayalam debut with the song “Pakkala Paadan Vaa” from the film “Dreamz (2000)”.
Shankar made his Marathi debut with the song “Mann Udhaan Varyache” from the film “Aga Bai Arrecha!” (2004). “
Apart from this, he has also sung songs in Tulu; the first one was “Jai Tulunadu” in the movie “Rickshaw Driver” (2014).
as a composer
He has been the composer of the musical trio “Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy”; the first was the film “Rockford (1999)”.
He has contributed to Mission Kashmir (2000), Dil Chahta Ha (2001), Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003), Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006), Taare Zameen Par (2006) years) and other film soundtracks. 2007), My Name is Khan (2010) and 2 States (2014).
Other works
Apart from singing, he is also into acting. He made his acting debut in 1995 in Doordarshan’s TV serial “Ek Se Badh Kar Ek”. Shankar made his film debut as an actor in the Marathi film “Katyar Kaljat Ghusali”, in which Shankar played the role of “Pandit Bhanu Shankar Shastri”.
Shankar Mahadevan has also worked on the album Sarnang by Rajesh Dhabre, Shreya Ghoshal, Sukhwinder Singh, Hariharan, Dr Bhavana Dhabre and Shankar. Shankar has sung two songs in the album; one is “Bhoomiputra” and the other is “Sangini”.
dispute
Shankar Mahadevan is a judge on the singing reality show Rising Star: Season 3 (2019) along with Neeti Mohan and Diljit Dosanjh. During the show, two contestants made sexist comments towards Neeti Mohan, after which she pretended to quit the show, calling the comments rude. When contestants get worried, judges call the behavior “prankish.” However, gender activist Kirthi Ajay Kumar did not like the prank and she criticized the judge for it.
Kirthi Ajay Kumar tweets about Rising Star judges
Awards
- Padma Shri 2019
Shankar Mahadevan meets Padma Shri
- Won the Lata Mangeshkar Award on September 28, 2011
- In 2008, he won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Singer for the song “Kalyana Kacheri” from the movie “Madampi”
- In 2005, he won the Filmfare Award for Best Telugu Male Singer for the song “Chandrullo Unde” from the movie “Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana”
Nandi Award (awarded by the Government of Andhra Pradesh)
- In 2012, he won the Best Male Singer Award for the song “Okkade Devudu” from the movie “Shirdi Sai”
- Best Male Singer in the 2008 movie “Venkatadri”
National Award
- In 2000, he won the Best Male Singer Award for the song “Yenna Solla Pogirai” from the movie “Kandukondain Kandukondain”
Shankar Mahadevan wins National Award
- The movie “Kal Ho Naa Ho” won the best music direction (playing Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy)
- In 2007, he won the Best Male Singer Award for the song “Maa” from the movie “Taare Zameen Par”
- In 2012, he won the Best Male Singer Award for the song “Bolo Na” from the movie “Chittagong”
favorite thing
- Food: Jasmine Rice Chicken, Spicy Thai Curry, South Indian Cuisine, Chocolate Beets
- Restaurants: Royal China, Mumbai, Chenab, Mumbai, Hotel Supreme Heritage, Mumbai
- Band: Pink Floyd, U2, Yes
- Travel destinations: Dubai, Orlando, Mauritius, San Francisco, California, Miami
fact
- Shankar enjoys cooking and drawing comics.
- Shankar co-founded Shankar Mahadevan Academy on March 3, 2011, along with Sridhar Ranganathan. The institute provides Indian music training through online courses and is affiliated with Berklee College of Music.
- Mahadevan came into limelight after releasing his first album, Breathless. What’s unique about this album is that one of the songs, called “Breathless,” was designed to be sung in one breath. Therefore, the album’s title remains behind it.
- His song “Breathless” lasts 2 minutes and 48 seconds and is not sung in one breath. Shankar said in an interview –
This must be the 3,000,000th time I’ve answered this question. But no, it’s not done in one go. The song seemed to be sung in one breath, then started and kept going. “
According to reports, the song topped the music charts for nearly 10 consecutive weeks and sold more than 300,000 copies.
- Shankar has been a fan of the band ‘Shakti’ since his childhood. He used to buy their tapes and decode all the complex rhythmic patterns and phrases in their music. Years later, John McLaughlin and Zakir Hussain formed another band with the same concept called Remember Shakti, Shankar Mahadevan also joined them. When talking about this, he said –
Never in my life did I think I would be a part of this. “
Shankar Mahadevan with John McLaughlin and Zakir Hussain
- On April 30, 2012, Shankar was invited by UNESCO and the U.S. State Department to perform at the finale of the International Jazz Festival at the United Nations General Assembly Hall.
- When Shankar was learning music from TR Balamani, she used to think Shankar was a very naughty and useless person. When talking about the reasons, Shankar said-
I would skip classes and sometimes because of my cricket, I wouldn’t be able to do riyaaz. But underneath that strict demeanor there was a lot of love, I knew it. “
Shankar Mahadevan and his guru TR Balamani
- Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa form the pop music trio Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy. In the early days of Shankar’s singing career, Ehsaan and Loy were already well-known composers in the advertising field. Shankar often worked with the then duo of Ehsaan and Loy for commercials. Ehsaan and Loy often asked Shankar for advice when composing music. In 1997, the three had the opportunity to collaborate on a song in Mukul S. Anand’s film Dus. Due to Mukul Anand’s death, the song was never released, but the music for the film was released later. The song, titled “Sabse Aage Honge Hindustaani”, was released in 1999 and became an instant hit. The three have been working together ever since.
- The Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy trio is often called the ‘Amar Akbar Antony’ of Hindi music cinema.
Shankar Ehsan Roy
- Shankar and Sangeeta have known each other since childhood. They first met when they were 14 years old. They are all neighbors and used to play badminton together.
Shankar Mahadevan and his wife Sangeeta
- Music has been a part of Shankar’s life since the beginning and even though he was an engineer, he never left it. He often jams with friends and plays with a local band called “Divya”.
- Shankar quit his job five to six months before marrying Sangeeta.
- Besides being a singer, he is also an excellent cook. He can cook Thai and South Indian cuisine and make delicious salads and soups. According to his wife, if Shankar had not been a singer, he could easily have been a good cook.
- Shankar and Hariharan were neighbors; their farmhouses in Karjat (a town near Mumbai) were separated by a wall.
Shankar Mahadevan and Hariharan
- Shankar is a member of the popular Indo-Swedish fusion jazz band Mynta.
Shankar Mahadevan performs with his band Mynta
- Shankar is also a member of the Indian jazz fusion band “Silk”. The band’s name comes from its band members, namely world-famous percussionist Sivamani, Sridhar Parthsarthy, Louiz Banks (keyboards), bassist Karl Peters, including Shankar Mahadevan.
Shankar Mahadevan and SILK members
- He is politically inclined towards the Bharatiya Janata Party.
- He has served as a judge on the reality shows “Rising Star Live” and “Indian Voice”.
Shankar Mahadevan “Rising Star”
- He is a dog lover and owns two dogs named Honey and Kiwi.
Shankar Mahadevan and his pets Honey and Kiwi
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