Vijay Prakash (born 21 February 1976) is an Indian Playback singer and also a

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from

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. He has given his voice for predominantly

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and Telugu language films. In addition, he has also sung in

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, Tamil,

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and Marathi. He is one of the judges for the

reality show ''Sa Re Ga Ma Pa'' on

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. He has also performed shows with Zakir Hussain. Prakash won the Karnataka Government's 'Best Playback Singer' award for the year 2016 for the song "Nammooralli Chaligaladalli" from the film '' Beautiful Manasugalu''. He is also one of four artists credited for the song " Jai Ho", which won the 2008 Academy Award for Best Original Song. Specifically, he sang the portion with the words "Jai Ho" that takes an extended high pitch at numerous junctures of the song. The song also won a Grammy Award in the category "Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media." He has also won the Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Artist – Kannada twice for the songs ''Gatiya Ilidu'' from the Kannada film Ulidavaru Kandante and ''Belageddu'' from Kirik Party.

Early life

He was born in Mysore, India to Carnatic Artists Lopamudra and Late L. Ramasesha, and is himself trained in Carnatic music. He was trained carnatic classic music by Bellary.M.Raghavendra

Career

After moving to Mumbai in 1996, he became a student of Suresh Wadkar. Prakash was a participant in the program '' Sa Re Ga Ma'' on Zee TV, hosted by

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. He made it to the mega-finals in 1999. Later he compered ''Sa Re Ga Ma Pa'' on

. He got his first break in Hindi cinema with the film '' Baaz'' in 2002, and his first song for A. R. Rahman was in Ashutosh Gowariker's ''

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'', followed by the same composer's Tamil title track for the movie '' New''. His song "Kavite" in

movie '' Gaalipata'' too became famous. He has done backing vocals for about 25 foreign films, including the film Couples Retreat, with music by A. R. Rahmaan. He has recorded for ads like "Kabhi chatpataa" for Knorr Soups and "Na sar jhuka hain kabhi" for HDFC Life Insurance. In 2008 he sang the "Condom a capella" ringtone composed by Rupert Fernandes and produced by the BBC World Service Trust for an Indian safe sex campaign. In 2009, his song, "Jai Ho"(Only chorus, original song sung by Sukhwinder Singh), won the 2008 Academy Award for Best Original Song. He was one of the Judges in Confident Star Singer 2 (

), which aired on

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in 2009. He has sung "Om Sivoham", a Sanskrit song penned by Vaali and composed by Ilaiyaraaja which was the main theme song of 2009 Tamil film

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. In 2010, he became a regular artist under composer A. R. Rahman, as he performed several of his numbers such as " Hosanna" ('' Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya, Ye Maaya Chesave''), " Beera Beera, Veera Veera (in Tamil & Telugu Versions)" ('' Raavan & Raavanan''), "Powerstar" ('' Komaram Puli'') and "

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" ('' Enthiran''). Prakash has debuted as a music composer for the 2013 Kannada film '' Andar Bahar'' starring Shivrajkumar. He also won the

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for the Best Male Playback for the song "Hosanna" from '' Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa''. In 2013, he appeared as one of the artists in Coke Studio @ MTV. In 2013, his song 'Khaali , written by lyricist Yograj Bhat, went viral on social media. The song 'Hoge' that he has sung for the film 'Nam Life Story' in Kannada is also going viral. In 2018, the song 'Bombe Helutaite' from the film '' Raajakumara '' inspired by the song 'Aadisi nodu bilisi nodu' from the film '' Kasturi Nivasa '' became one of the industry evergreen songs. It was written by ''

Santhosh Ananddram Santhosh Ananddram is an Indian film lyric writer, screenwriter, director who works in Kannada cinema. He rose to fame with his debut directional venture 2014 film '' Mr. and Mrs. Ramachari''. He later went on and directed Kannada Star Puneeth ...

'' . In 2021, the duo created another magical song dedicated to the student-teacher relationship named 'Paatashala' in the film ''

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''. Prakash was also the brand ambassador of Nissan Evalia 'moves like music' campaign, which featured six young prominent artists of India. He is one of the very few Indian musicians who have had the honour of performing at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA.

Discography

As a composer

As a playback singer

Kannada

Tamil films

Telugu films

Other films

Awards and Titles

References

External links

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