Varun Parandhaman is an Indian musician and songwriter based in
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 ...
, Tamil Nadu. He is an independent artist/freelance singer and a music producer.
Early life
Born and brought up in
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 ...
, Varun Parandhaman finished his schooling at KPCVSS and studied to be a Software Engineer. He took to singing and song writing in middle school but never had any formal learning in any form of music. While pursuing a professional engineering degree, he won numerous solo singing events in the inter-college level.
Music career
While in college, he taught himself how to use popular
digital audio workstation
A digital audio workstation (DAW ) is an electronic device or application software used for Sound recording and reproduction, recording, editing and producing audio files. DAWs come in a wide variety of configurations from a single software pr ...
s (DAWs) today such as Cubase, Nuendo,
Ableton Live
Ableton Live is a digital audio workstation for macOS and Windows developed by the German company Ableton.
In contrast to many other software sequencers, Live is designed to be an instrument for live performances as well as a tool for compos ...
and more. He then became the music producer for various artists based in
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 ...
, and also collaborated with them.
In 2009, Varun sang the hook for the remix version of the song ''Kadavule Kadavule'' composed by music director
D. Imman in the actor
Jiiva
Amar Choudary (born 4 January 1984), known professionally as Jiiva, is an Indian actor and film producer who works mainly in Tamil cinema and a few Malayalam, Telugu and Hindi films. He is the youngest son of film producer R. B. Choudary.
...
starrer ''
Kacheri Arambam''.
Since then, he has been freelancing as a backup vocalist for more than 6 years. Music took a huge turn when he graduated from college. He has sung back-up for reputed music directors in the industry today such as
A. R. Rahman
Allah Rakha Rahman (; born A. S. Dileep Kumar; 6 January 1967), also known by the initialism ARR, is an Indian music composer, record producer, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and philanthropist known for his works in Indian cinem ...
,
D. Imman,
Anirudh Ravichander
Anirudh Ravichander (born 16 October 1990), also credited mononymously as Anirudh, is an Indian composer and playback singer who works primarily in Tamil cinema, in addition to Telugu and Hindi films. He has won two Filmfare Awards South, ten ...
, Santhosh Kumar Dayanidhi, Pradeep Vijay,
Sean Roldan
Raghavendra Raja Rao, known by his stage name Sean Roldan is an Indian composer, musician, and lyricist who predominantly works in the Tamil film industry. He has worked on Carnatic music, independent music, and film scores for the Tamil film i ...
,
Siddharth Vipin and
Ved Shankar.
Also, he has always been associated with Independent Music and has worked on and recorded songs for the famous Tamil Hip Hop duo,
Hiphop Tamizha
Hiphop Tamizha () is an Indian Musical ensemble, musical duo based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The duo consists of Rangadhithya "Adhi" Ramachandran Venkatapathy and R. Jeeva.
Their commercial break-through came with the song "Club le Mabbu le" in ...
.
Noticing that a Tamil boy band was non-existent in the music scenario, Varun Parandhaman decided to mentor ''Namma Ooru Boy Band'' (NOBB) and collaborate his music styles pioneering Tamil Pop.
His first venture with NOBB was the largely popular reggae style single ''Cosmopolitan Kadhali'' for which he produced the music and vocals working along with
Keba Jeremiah, Joshua Satya and Andrew Arun. The music video, released in April 2014 under the banner Divo Movies starring model Surya Ganapathy has garnered more than 600,000 views on
YouTube
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and was premiered in the popular South Indian music channel
Sun Music
Sun TV is an Indian Tamil-language general entertainment pay television channel owned by Sun TV Network. It was launched on 14 April 1993. It is the flagship channel of the Chennai-based media conglomerate Sun Group's Sun TV Network. It was fo ...
which predominantly plays film music in July 2014.
He has his own band, Varun Parandhaman & Friends, composed of and collaborating with prominent musicians from the film industry and they have been touring and doing shows in
Bengaluru
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,
Kerala
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,
Erode
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,
Yercaud
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History
Stone-age implements have been found near an ancient s ...
and also numerous reputed venues in
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 ...
.
August 2014 saw Varun Parandhaman securing another huge milestone. His debut into Tamil film music, was an opportunity through music composer
D. Imman in the film ''
Sigaram Thodu'' starring actor
Vikram Prabhu
Vikram Prabhu is an Indian actor working in Tamil language films who made his debut in Prabhu Solomon's ''Kumki (film), Kumki'' (2012). He also played the protagonist in ''Ivan Veramathiri'' (2013) and ''Vellaikaara Durai'' (2014). He is the so ...
. The song ''Takku Takku'' sung along with
Anthony Daasan
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became a ''"MASS HIT"'' according to the papers, due to its peppy tune and quirky lyrics by
Madhan Karky
Madhan Karky Vairamuthu is an Indian lyricist, screenwriter, research associate, software engineer, and entrepreneur. A holder of a doctorate in computer science from the University of Queensland, Karky began his professional career as an as ...
. This was followed by ''Yaar Enna Sonnaalum'' in
Hiphop Tamizha
Hiphop Tamizha () is an Indian Musical ensemble, musical duo based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The duo consists of Rangadhithya "Adhi" Ramachandran Venkatapathy and R. Jeeva.
Their commercial break-through came with the song "Club le Mabbu le" in ...
's debut film music direction
Aambala
''Aambala'' () is a 2015 Indian Tamil language, Tamil-language action comedy film co-written, co-produced and directed by Sundar C. Produced by Vishal (actor), Vishal, it features him in the leading role alongside an ensemble cast including Han ...
, ''Athana Azhagaiyum'' from the
Santhanam starrer
Inimey Ippadithaan and ''Sona Sona'' from
Vasuvum Saravananum Onna Padichavanga. All his film songs have been featured in the Top 10 songs from time to time. ''Takku Takku'' starred at the #1 spot in the Tamil charts and the song ''Athana Azhagaiyum'' was at #3 and also #15 in the Top 50 songs of 2015. His most recent works were the songs ''Nizhala Nijama'' from
Vellaiya Irukiravan Poi Solla Maatan, ''Olarava Olarava'' in
Darling 2
''Darling 2'' is a 2016 Tamil language comedy horror film directed by debutant Sathish Chandrasekaran and produced by Rite Media Works. The film stars Kalaiyarasan along with debutant Rameez Raja.
The film was earlier titled ''Jinn''. K. E. Gna ...
, ''Rain Rain Go Go'' from
Pokkiri Raja (2016) and ''Wako Wowra'' from
Meen Kuzhambum Mann Paanaiyum
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.
Discography
Film songs
Albums
Back-up vocals and BGM
References
Further reading
* http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/for-all-music-lover/article7239085.ece
External links
Varun Parandhamanon
Facebook
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Singers from Chennai
Living people
1991 births
Indian male singer-songwriters
Indian singer-songwriters