Kapil Kapilan is an Indian singer who works in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam cinema. His breakthrough song came with "Adiye" from the Tamil film ''
Bachelor
A bachelor is a man who is not and never has been married.Bachelors are, in Pitt & al.'s phrasing, "men who live independently, outside of their parents' home and other institutional settings, who are neither married nor cohabitating". ().
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Early life
Kapilan or Kapil Nair born into a Malayali family in
Kottarakkara
Kottarakkara (IAST: Koṭṭārakkara), also transliterated as ''Kottarakara'', is a town and municipality in the Kollam district of Kerala, India. Kottarakkara lies to the east of Kollam city centre.
History
Kottarakkara, also known in the ...
, Kerala. He studied at
Mar Ivanios College
Mar Ivanios College is an autonomous educational institution situated in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. The college was ranked as 45th best college in the country by Ministry of Education's National Institutional Ranking Framework in 2023, ...
before moving to
Chennai
Chennai, also known as Madras (List of renamed places in India#Tamil Nadu, its official name until 1996), is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Tamil Nadu by population, largest city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost states and ...
to pursue a career in music.
Career
Kapilan began his career in 2017 in three languages with "Champesaave Nannu" from the Telugu film ''
Nenu Local''; "Baduke Neenentha Nataka" from the Kannada film ''
Happy New Year''; and "Usiredukkum Kootam" from the Tamil film ''
Maragadha Naanayam''.
Kapilan's career took a new turn with "Adiye", from the Tamil film ''
Bachelor
A bachelor is a man who is not and never has been married.Bachelors are, in Pitt & al.'s phrasing, "men who live independently, outside of their parents' home and other institutional settings, who are neither married nor cohabitating". ().
Etymo ...
'' (2021),
for which he won the
SIIMA Award for Best Playback Singer – Tamil.
He also won the
Kerala State Film Award for Best Singer for the song "Kanave" from the unreleased Malayalam film ''Pallotty 90s Kids''.
Discography
Awards and achievements
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century Indian male singers
21st-century Indian singers