Happy Birthday K.K. ... May God keep you safe and prosperous! ! Krishnakumar Kunnath (born 23 August 1968), popularly known as KK or Kay Kay , is an Indian playback singer. He is a prominent singer in Hindi , Malayalam , Telugu, Kannada and Tamil films. #Personal_life KK married his childhood sweetheart Jyothy Krishna in 1991. [7] His son Nakul sang a song Masti from his latest album Humsafar with him. [8] KK also has a daughter named Taamara. He has been greatly influenced by the singer Kishore Kumar and music director R. D. Burman . His melodious voice has helped gain a certain genre of songs… his forte is Love songs and his voice almost always touches a chord in every listeners heart. He is truly the next generation Kishore Kumar. With no formal training in singing, he still stands tall among all the other talented playback singers of Bollywood. #Career : After graduating from Kirori Mal College , Delhi University in commerce. KK had a brief stint of eight months as marketing executive in the hotel industry. After few years, in 1994, he moved to Mumbai. In 1994, he gave his demo tape to Louis Banks , Ranjit Barot and Leslie Lewis to get a break in the music arena. He was called by UTV and he sang a jingle for Santogen Suiting ad. [8] In a span of four years, he has sung more than 3,500 jingles in 11 Indian languages. He got the first break in Mumbai from UTV to sing jingles. He considers Leslie Lewis as his mentor for giving him his first jingle to sing in Mumbai.[7] KK was introduced as a playback singer with A. R. Rahmans hit song College Styley and Hello Dr. from Kadirs Kadhal Desam and then Strawberry Kannae from AVM Productions s musical film Minsara Kanavu (1997). [9] Pritam Chakraborty is also fan of him. He got his Bollywood break with Tadap Tadap Ke Is Dil from Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999). [9] However, prior to this song he had song a small portion of the song Chod aaye hum from Gulzars Maachis. Till now, KK has sung more than 500 songs in Hindi and more than 200 songs in Telugu , Bengali, Tamil , Kannada and Malayalam languages. [10] He has worked with leading music composers such as Rajesh Roshan, Ilayaraja, Vishal Bhardwaj, Ismail Darbar, Himesh Reshammiya, Anu Malik , Anand-Milind , Vishal-Shekhar , M. M. Keeravani, Vidyasagar, Mani Sharma , A. R. Rahman, Yuvan Shankar Raja , Harris Jayaraj , Deva, Devi Sri Prasad , Amit Trivedi, Shankar Ehsaan Loy , Pritam Chakraborty, Deepak Dev , Jeet Gannguli , Viju Shah, Jatin-Lalit , Sachin-Jigar , Raghav Sachar , Anand Raj Anand, Salim- Sulaiman , Sajid-Wajid , Sharib- Toshi , Nadeem- Shravan , Mithoon , Siddharth-Suhaas , Sachin Gupta , Shamir Tandon, Sandesh Shandilya and etc. KK has sung many songs with Alka Yagnik , Shreya Ghoshal, Sunidhi Chauhan , Udit Narayan , Shilpa Rao , Tulsi Kumar, Dominique Cerejo , Shaan and others. He has lent his voice to the biggest hit song this year (2014) Tune maari entriyaan among several others in Gunday .
Posted on: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 11:09:48 +0000
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