MK Balaji is an Indian singer, songwriter, composer and independent artist from

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 ...

. As a playback singer he has sung more than 200 songs in

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, Telugu and

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. His first song a lyricist was for the movie Sethupathi. He has hosted popular TV shows in Star Vijay and

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, ...

. He made a debut as an indie artist with his single Good Naai bad Aadu that takes a fun jab at meat eating animal lovers.

Biography

MK Balaji is the voice behind many South Indian film songs including "Rettai Kathire" from the Tamil movie '' Maattrraan'' directed by K. V. Anand starring Surya Sivakumar. He has delivered many successful songs in Tamil and Telugu. He has also collaborated with music directors like D Imman, Karthik Raja, Sundar C. Babu,

Taj Noor Taj Noor is an Indian film score and soundtrack composer, who has predominantly scored music for Tamil cinema, Tamil films. Career Taj Noor was born in the town of Salem, Tamil Nadu to a district collector Usman Ali Khan and his wife Habibonish ...

, James Vasanthan, Sirpy, Sabesh–Murali and Srikanth Deva.

Early music

He started his singing career with reality shows on television. His band V3, of which he was the lead singer, presented a sound track in the ''Oohlalala'' album which consists of original compositions by the winners of the show ''Oohlalala'' aired on the

channel Sun TV. It was judged by the Oscar winner AR Rahman. His band was judged the winning band and he eventually got the breakthrough as a playback singer.

Discography

Below is the partial discography of the songs sung by MK Balaji. ;Film songs ;Single ;As lyricist ;As TV Host

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Balaji, MK Living people Indian male playback singers Tamil playback singers Singers from Chennai Year of birth missing (living people)