Airtel Super Singer
Airtel Super Singer is a 2006 Indian Tamil-language reality television singing competition, that was sponsored by KAG Tiles for the tenth season. The show is televised in India on Vijay TV, and worldwide through partner broadcasting networks. The show, together with its spin-off editions such as Airtel Super Singer Junior, are part of Vijay TV's Super Singer TV series. The program, which debuted on 28 April 2006, seeks to discover the best playback recording voice and singing talent in Tamil Nadu through a series of statewide auditions. Selected contestants are required to participate in several competition rounds, often based on a theme for a given week, and aim to be selected to perform in the show's grand finale each season. Winners and finalists of the competition have been offered chances to sing a song in upcoming Tamil movies, and other prizes such as sums of money, gold, and real estate property. The eleventh season is set to launch very soon. Series overview ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Music Competition
A music competition is a public event designed to identify and award outstanding musical ensembles, solo (music), soloists, composers, conducting, conductors, musicologists or compositions. Pop music competitions are music competitions which are held to find pop starlets. Examples of music competitions in popular music include the Eurovision Song Contest, the Sanremo Music Festival, Open Mic UK, the All-Japan Band Association annual contest, Live and Unsigned, and ''American Idol''. History European classical art music uses competitions to provide a public forum that identifies the strongest young players and helps them start their professional careers (see List of classical music competitions). Popular instrumental ensembles such as brass bands and school bands have also long relied on competitions and festivals to promote their musical genres and recognize high levels of achievement. In the recent decades, large competitions have also developed in the field of popular music to ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Hindu
''The Hindu'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It was founded as a weekly publication in 1878 by the Triplicane Six, becoming a daily in 1889. It is one of the Indian Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The Hindu'' is published from 21 locations across 11 states of India. ''The Hindu'' has been a family-owned newspaper since 1905, when it was purchased by S. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar from the original founders. It is now jointly owned by Iyengar's descendants, referred to as the "Kasturi family", who serve as the directors of the holding company. Except for a period of around two years, when Siddharth Varadarajan, S. Varadarajan held the editorship of the newspaper, senior editorial positions of the paper have always been held by members of the original Iyengar family or by those appointed by them under their direction. In June 2023, the former chairperson of the group, Malini Parthasarathy, w ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Anitha Karthikeyan
Anitha Karthikeyan () is an Indian Playback singer. She has sung more than 500 film songs mostly in south Indian languages including Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. It was the song "Mannavane Mannavane" from the 2015 Tamil movie '' Puli'' which "has brought her to the limelight." In the beginning, she sang more melodious and classical based tune songs, she later became known for fast track hit numbers. In 2010, she won the Vijay Music award in the popular mass song category for the song "Vaada Vaada Paiya" from Tamil film '' Kacheri Arambam''. She is also known for singing Jingles for TV commercials. Besides, she has sung title track for different TV Serials including the "Achuvellam Pacharasi Mavilakku" for '' Kula Deivam (TV series)''. She has performed in numerous live concerts in India and abroad including in Ilaiyaraaja’s orchestras. Early life and education Anitha Karthikeyan was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She began her school education at the Saraswathi Vidya ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nikhil Mathew
Nikhil Mathew is a singer from Kerala, India. In 2006, he won the ''first season of the Airtel Super Singer'' reality show. As the show's winner, he won a chance to sing a song for music director Harris Jayaraj – ''Enadhuyire'' along with Chinmayi, Sadhana Sargam, and Sowmya Raoh for the Tamil film ''Bheema Bhima (, ), also known as Bhimasena (, ), is a hero and one of the most prominent characters in the Hindu epic ''Mahabharata''. As the second of the five Pandava brothers, Bhima was born to Kunti—the wife of King Pandu—fathered by Vayu, the ...''. Discography Television Awards and nominations References Living people Musicians from Kottayam Tamil playback singers Malayalam playback singers 1983 births Singers from Kerala Film musicians from Kerala 21st-century Indian singers 21st-century Indian male singers {{India-singer-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Super Singer 10
''Super Singer Season 10'' is a 2023–2024 Indian Tamil-language reality television singing competition show. The tenth season of Super Singer airs every Saturday and Sunday on Star Vijay from 16 December 2023, and streams on Disney+ Hotstar. Ma Ka Pa Anand and Priyanka Deshpande returned as hosts for this season. The #Judges, judging panel for this season included four judges: one music composer Sean Roldan, and playback singers, Anuradha Sriram, Mano (singer), Mano, and Sujatha Mohan. Anuradha Sriram has been judging this reality singing show from Super Singer 1, Super Singer Season 1 onwards. Mano and Sujatha Mohan have now joined Super Singer judging panel after both making their permanent judging debut during Super Singer 4, Super Singer Season 4 . Sean Roldan, is the fourth new judge to join the Super Singer judging panel. The Grand Finale was held on 23 June 2024. At the finals, John Jerome was the title winner. Format The mega auditions had commenced with the 25 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Super Singer 9
Super Singer Season 9 is a 2022-2023 Indian Tamil-language reality television singing competition show. The ninth season of Super Singer, which airs on Star Vijay and streams on Disney+ Hotstar, telecasts every Saturday and Sunday at 6:30 PM, which started from 19 November 2022. MRF Vapocure Paints is the main sponsor for this season. Makapa Anand and Priyanka Deshpande return as hosts once again for this season. The judging panel consists of four popular playback singers, Anuradha Sriram, P. Unnikrishnan, Benny Dayal, and Shweta Mohan. The Grand Finale was held on 25 June 2023. At the finals, Aruna Sivaya was the title winner. Aruna is the first woman to become the title winner of Super Singer. Format The show begins with a mega musical battle with auditioned top 20 contestants of this season. Each contestant is ranked based on their performance and the top scorer will be given a spot in the super 5 zone. Position in the super five zone keeps changing based on their perfo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Super Singer 8
Airtel Super Singer is a 2006 Indian Tamil-language reality television singing competition, that was sponsored by KAG Tiles for the tenth season. The show is televised in India on Vijay TV, and worldwide through partner broadcasting networks. The show, together with its spin-off editions such as Airtel Super Singer Junior, are part of Vijay TV's Super Singer TV series. The program, which debuted on 28 April 2006, seeks to discover the best playback recording voice and singing talent in Tamil Nadu through a series of statewide auditions. Selected contestants are required to participate in several competition rounds, often based on a theme for a given week, and aim to be selected to perform in the show's grand finale each season. Winners and finalists of the competition have been offered chances to sing a song in upcoming Tamil movies, and other prizes such as sums of money, gold, and real estate property. The eleventh season is set to launch very soon. Series overview Seas ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Super Singer 7
Asian Paints Super Singer 7 is a 2019 Indian Tamil language Reality singing competition show, the seventh season of the Super Singer show, which aired on Star Vijay on every Saturday and Sunday at 20:00 (IST) starting from 27 April 2019.Asian Paints sponsored for the season. The show was hosted by Makapa Anand and Priyanka Deshpande once again. The Judges of the show were the popular playback singers P. Unnikrishnan, Anuradha Sriram, Shweta Mohan and Benny Dayal. Music Director Anirudh Ravichander was the Brand Ambassador of the season. The winner will be given a chance to sing in an Anirudh's musical on a feature film. The finalists include Punya, Murugan, Vikram, Gowtham and Sam Vishal. The Grand Finale was held on 10 November 2019 at Codissia Trade Fair Complex, Coimbatore and it was live telecasted from 3:30 pm onwards on Vijay TV. Murugan was declared as the winner. Vikram was second. Sam Vishal and Punya were tied for the third place. At the grand finale Anirud ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Super Singer 6
''Nippon Paint Super Singer 6'' was a 2018 Indian Tamil language Reality singing competition show, the sixth season of the Super Singer show, which aired on Star Vijay on every Saturday and Sunday at 19:00 (IST) starting from 21 January 2018 until 15 July 2018. Nippon Paint sponsored the season after Airtel discontinued its sponsoring. The show was hosted by Makapa Anand and Priyanka Deshpande. The Judges of the show were the popular playback singers Anuradha Sriram, P. Unnikrishnan, Benny Dayal and Shweta Mohan. The Grand finale was held on 15 July 2018 at Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium, Chennai and was a live telecast through Star Vijay. Golden voice Rakshitha, Sreekanth, Shakthi, Anirudh, Malavika and Senthil Ganesh were the final 6 contestants. Folk singer Senthil Ganesh emerged as the title winner of the show who also got a chance to sing in A.R. Rahman's music and the versatile singer Golden voice of super singer 6 Rakshitha emerged as first runner up with 2.5 milli ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Super Singer 5
''Airtel Super Singer 5'' – ''Thamizhagathil Brahmaanda Kuralukkaana Thedal'', the fifth season of the Airtel Super Singer show, is a reality-based Indian singing competition in Tamil language that aired on Vijay TV. It was designed to be a talent hunt to find the best voice of Tamil Nadu. The show premiered on 1 June 2015, and episodes were telecasted on weekdays each week at 9:30 pm. Persons above the age of 16 years were permitted to audition to showcase their talent on Vijay TV's platform. This program was sponsored by Airtel. The show was hosted by Makapa Anand, Priyanka Deshpande, and Bhavana Balakrishnan. For the performance rounds by the top 30 contestants, voice trainer Ananth Vaidyanathan appeared fairly regularly on the show. Playback Singers, Usha Uthup, Mano, Srinivas and P. Unnikrishnan returned as permanent judges who appeared regularly throughout the show. The third permanent judge of the show consisted of appearances by either former junior season judge ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Super Singer 4
''Airtel Super Singer 4'', the fourth season of Airtel Super Singer, premiered on 4 February 2013. The show was a reality-based Indian singing competition in Tamil that aired on STAR Vijay. It was designed to be a talent hunt to find the best voice of Tamil Nadu. Judges for the auditions were Ananth Vaidyanathan, S.P. Sailaja, Devan Ekambaram, Nithyasree Mahadevan, Mahathi, Pop Shalini, S. Sowmya, Mano and Malgudi Subha. Some of these judges along with other noted musicians reappeared as Guest judges. To name a few- S. Janaki, M. S. Viswanathan, A. R. Rahman, P. Susheela, Asha Bhosle, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Vairamuthu, L. R. Eswari and Vani Jairam. Judges for the main competition were Sujatha, Mano, Unnikrishnan and Srinivas. Makapa Anand, Priyanka Deshpande, and Bhavana were the hosts for the show. The voice trainer was Ananth Vaidyanathan. The show aired on weekdays at 9:00 pm IST. Auditions The auditions for the show were held at three zones, Trichy, Kovai and Che ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Super Singer 3
''Airtel Super Singer 3'' – ''Thamizhagathil Brahmaanda Kuralukkaana Thedal – Immurai Ulaga Alavil'', the third season of the Airtel Super Singer show, was a reality-based Indian singing competition in Tamil language that aired on Vijay TV. It was designed to be a talent hunt to find the best voice of Tamil Nadu. The show premiered on 12 July 2010, and episodes were telecast between Monday to Thursday each week at 9:00 pm. Persons above the age of 16 years were permitted to audition to showcase their talent on Vijay TV's platform. The show was initially hosted by Divya Vijayagopal during the audition rounds. For the performance rounds by the top 25 contestants, voice trainer Ananth Vaidyanathan appeared fairly regularly on the show together with permanent judges Srinivas, Sujatha Mohan, P. Unnikrishnan, and hosts Divya Vijayagopal and Sivakarthikeyan. The hosts in each episode of the top 25 performance rounds announced that the winner would win a triple bedroom apartmen ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |