Hariharan

Born: 3 April 1955

He is an Indian playback and ghazal singer, whose songs have been featured mainly in Tamil and Hindi.
Also he sang notable songs in Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi and Bhojpuri films.
He is an established ghazal singer and one of the pioneers of Indian fusion music.
In 2004, he was honoured with the Padma Shri by the Government of India and is a two-time National Award winner.
He associating with Lesle Lewis, formed Colonial Cousins, a two-member band.
They have cut many private music albums and also scored music for few feature films in Tamil cinema and Bollywood cinema.
He collaborated with Sarangan Sriranganathan for “Sruthi” at the Sydney Hill Centre and the Melbourne Robert Blackwood Hall Australia in 2011.
He unofficially released ghazal singer Adithya Srinivasan’s first international single ‘Gham e Duniya’ at the Gateway Hotel, Bangalore.
In an interview in 2012, he said that he was no longer receiving offers to sing for Bollywood as music composers wanted to experiment with singers from the younger generation.
He was selected as judge for Asianet Star Singer Season 6 programme, a very popular music contest television show for upcoming singers in Malayalam.
He was a part of the ‘Royal Stag Barrel Select MTV Unplugged’, aired in December 2015.