Dhivagaran Santhosh (also known as Diwakar) is an Indian

playback singer A playback singer, as they are usually known in South Asian cinema, or ghost singer in Western cinema, is a singer whose performance is pre-recorded for use in films. Playback singers record songs for soundtracks, and the performers lip-sync the ...

and live performer. He is best known for winning '' Airtel Super Singer 4'', a

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musical

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show which was telecast from February 4th 2013 to February 1st 2014 on

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Career

Television works

Diwakar participated in various reality TV musical competitions telecast on various

TV channels, including

Zee Tamil Zee Tamil is an Indian Tamil language pay television general entertainment channel owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises. The channel started broadcasting on 2008 and is available internationally. The channel broadcasts from Guindy, Chennai, ...

's '' Sa Re Ga Ma Pa 2009 Challenge'',

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's ''Hariyudan Naan'', and season 2 of Sun TV's ''

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''. In 2012, Diwakar was crowned runner up in

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's ''Voice of Tamil Nadu''. On 1 February 2014, he was crowned the winner of season 4 of the ''

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 ...

'' music competition telecast on

, having received the greatest number of viewer votes. During the show's grand finale, Diwakar's performance of the song "Neeye Unakku Endrum" from the film '' Bale Pandiya'' prompted a standing ovation from the audience and a kiss on his forehead from playback singer,

S. Janaki Sistla Janaki (born 23 April 1938) is an Indian playback singer and occasional music composer. She is widely referred to as Janaki Amma and Nightingale of India(nightingale of South) . She is one of the greatest playback singers in the history ...

Playback singing and recordings

Diwakar recorded his first song as a playback singer for music director

D. Imman Immanuel Vasanth Dinakaran (born 24 January 1983), better known as D. Imman, is an Indian film music composer and singer, predominantly working in Tamil cinema. His first film as music director was ''Thamizhan'' in 2002. Since then he has comp ...

for the movie 'Panchu Mittai'. However, his voice as a playback singer was first released in the

movie, ''

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'', for a song co-sung by playback singers

Vijay Prakash Vijay Prakash (born 21 February 1976) is an Indian Playback singer and Music director from Karnataka. He has given his voice for predominantly Kannada, Tamil, and Telugu language films, in addition to Hindi, Malayalam and Marathi language ...

and

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Television

Film songs

Albums

References

External links

* {{Authority control 1990 births Living people Indian male playback singers Tamil playback singers Singers from Chennai