Haricharan Seshadri, known mononymously as Haricharan (born 20 March 1987), is an Indian Carnatic vocalist, playback singer, and musician who predominantly works in

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music and cinema. He sung 2000 songs in films, albums etc. He recorded his first Tamil film song for the film '' Kaadhal'', in

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's music when he was 17, and went on to record three songs in his debut movie. His song "Unakkena Iruppen" was nominated for the

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in 2005 which became widely popular. However he became popular only after his rendition to the song, "

Thuli Thuli "Thuli Thuli" is a song from the 2010 Tamil feature film ''Paiyaa'', composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja. The song, with lyrics by Na. Muthukumar and performed by Haricharan and Tanvi Shah, was released as part of the soundtrack album of the film o ...

", composed by

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for the movie '' Paiyaa'' (2010).

Background

Haricharan comes from Tamil music family from

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. His grandfather P. S. Ganapathy was an organiser of mic-less Carnatic concerts in the 60s under the name "Aalapanaa", and his grandmother Smt. Alamelu Ganapathy is a national awardee in Mathematics, and has been in academia for more than 35 years. His father G. Seshadri is an artist through AIR, and a bank employee, and his mother Latha, a librarian in P. S. Senior Secondary School. Haricharan started learning Carnatic music at an early age of seven under Smt. Sethu Mahadevan, and then from stalwarts like

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, T. M. Prabhavathi and P. S. Narayanaswamy. He recorded his first Tamil film song for the film '' Kaadhal'', in

's music when he was 17, and went on to record three songs in his debut movie. His song "Unakkena Iruppen" was nominated for the

in 2005 which became widely popular. Since then he has recorded several hit numbers for various music directors across the south, predominantly in Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and Malayalam languages. He became more famous after his more recent song, "

". Haricharan is one of the most used singers in

's music. He has also sun
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for RI Dist 3230. In 2012, Haricharan sang alongside Rajinikanth for the song "Maattram Ondrudhaan Maradhadhu" from soundtrack of ''Kochadaiiyaan'', which was composed by

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and released in 2014.

Awards

Won

; Filmfare Awards South *2015 -

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- '' Banglore Days'' ; IIFA Utsavam *2016 -IIFA Utsavam Award for Best Playback Singer - Male - Telugu - '' Baahubali'' *2016 - IIFA Utsavam Award for Best Playback Singer - Male - Tamil - '' Baahubali'' *2017- IIFA Utsavam Award for Best Playback Singer - Male - Telugu -''Krishnagadi Veera premagadha'' ; Asianet Film Awards *2015-Best Playback singer - '' Banglore Days''

Discography

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

Non-film songs

2021

References

External links

* * * ;Discographies
Raaga.com

Thiraipaadal.com

Haricharan on Devaragam

Haricharan on Saavn
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