Sreenivas

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Singer Srinivas is an engineer who turned to playback singing for Indian films. He studied in Kerala and was coached in carnatic music by his aunt. In 1988, Srinivas approached music maestro Ilaiyaraaja, who was at the helm of Tamil film music. He was offered the opportunity to work with Ilaiyaraaja, but however things did not work out,as he was suffering from severe throat infection that day. It was later in 1992, that the soundtrack of Mani Ratnam's Tamil film Roja reignited his dreams of playback singing. Mani Ratnam had introduced composer A. R. Rahman with this movie, who then went on to change the music scene on the Indian film industry. Encouraged by the use of fresh voices in Roja, Srinivas approached A. R. Rahman. Rahman took a liking to Srinivas's rendition of Mehdi Hassan's ghazals and offered him work at Chennai. In 1994, Srinivas shifted base to Chennai and started lending his voice to advertisement jingles and devotional albums. His first foray into playback singing began with the song Sorgam Enbathu Namakku from the movie Nammavar, composed by Mahesh. It went on to became a runaway hit. But it was only in 1996, that he gained recognition with the song Manna Madurai from A. R. Rahman's Minsaara Kanavu. Then came En Uyire in Mani Ratnam's Uyire (the Tamil version of Dil Se). This A. R. Rahman's song catapulted Srinivas into fame. Srinivas has sung for leading music directors like Ilayaraja, Deva, A.R.Rahman, Vidyasagar, and in languages like Tamil, Malayal

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