Kapil Kapilan is an Indian singer who works in Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam cinema. His breakthrough song came with "Adiye" from the Tamil film ''
Bachelor
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Etymo ...
''.
Early life
Kapilan is from
Kottarakkara
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, Kerala. He studied at
Mar Ivanios College
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before moving to
Chennai
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to pursue a career in music.
Career
Kapilan began his career in 2017 in three languages with "Champesaave Nannu" from the Telugu film ''
Nenu Local
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''; "Baduke Neenentha Nataka" from the Kannada film ''
Happy New Year
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''; and "Usiredukkum Kootam" from the Tamil film ''
Maragadha Naanayam
''Maragadha Naanayam'' () is a 2017 Indian Tamil-language fantasy comedy film written and directed by ARK Saravan in his directorial debut. The film stars Aadhi and Nikki Galrani while Anandaraj, Munishkanth, Daniel Annie Pope, Mime Gopi, and Ko ...
''.
Kapilan's career took a new turn with "Adiye", from the Tamil film ''
Bachelor
A bachelor is a man who is not and has never been married.Bachelors are, in Pitt & al.'s phrasing, "men who live independently, outside of their parents' home and other institutional settings, who are neither married nor cohabitating". ().
Etymo ...
'' (2021),
for which he won the
SIIMA Award for Best Playback Singer – Tamil.
He also won the
Kerala State Film Award for Best Singer
The Kerala State Film Award for Best Singer is an honour, established in 1969, and presented annually at the Kerala State Film Awards of India for best female and male playback singer in Malayalam cinema. The first recipients of the award were P. ...
for the song "Kanave" from the unreleased Malayalam film ''Pallotty 90s Kids''.
Discography
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century Indian male singers
21st-century Indian singers