Kharesma Ravichandran (born 8 May 2000) is a British playback singer for Tamil cinema films. Her first public performance came at the age of four for the British Heart Foundation. A professionally trained western vocalist, Ravichandran began her

playback singing A playback singer, also known as a ghost singer, is a singer whose singing is pre-recorded for use in films. Playback singers record songs for soundtracks, and actors or actresses lip-sync the songs for cameras; the actual singer does not app ...

career in 2014, with her debut coming in the Tamil film ''

Yennai Arindhaal ''Yennai Arindhaal'' () is a 2015 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film co-written and directed by Gautham Vasudev Menon, and produced by A. M. Rathnam. The film stars Ajith Kumar, Trisha Krishnan, Anushka Shetty and Arun Vijay and revol ...

'' (2015). She is currently signed as an independent artist under

Hiphop Tamizha Hiphop Tamizha () is an Indian musical duo based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The duo consists of Adhithya "Adhi" Venkatapathy and R. Jeeva. Their commercial break-through came with the song "Club le Mabbu le" in 2011. In 2012, Hiphop Tamizha rele ...

’s label “Underground”.

Early life

In 2011 she moved to India for schooling and due to her parents' work. She has completed her Grade 8 in vocals and Grade 5 in Piano for the Trinity College London - Music. She lived in Sri Lanka, studying at The

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Career

In 2011, Kharesma moved to India where she began learning Hindustani and Carnatic music. She started singing jingles for advertisements such as Chicking, Alsa Mall and Impulse Perfume. She started her career as an Indian Playback singer for a

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film ''

'' with the song "Yaen Ennai" composed by

Harris Jayaraj Harris Jayaraj (born 8 January 1975) is an Indian composer from Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He composes soundtracks predominantly for Tamil films, while also having composed for a few films in Telugu and two films in Hindi. He has been honoured with K ...

. Her rise to fame was then triggered in part by the song "Kadhal Cricketu" in the film ''

Thani Oruvan ''Thani Oruvan'' () is a 2015 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film directed by Mohan Raja and written by Raja and Suresh and Balakrishnan. Produced by Kalpathi S. Aghoram, S. Ganesh and S. Suresh under the studio AGS Entertainment, it st ...

'', composed by

duo Aadhi and Jeeva. Kadhal Cricketu topped the Indian iTunes Chart and many radio stations in Chennai and other Tamil speaking channels all over the world for several weeks. This was followed by further success with her next song "Party with the Pei" in ''

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'' by

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, again composed by

Hiphop Thamizha Hiphop Tamizha () is an Indian musical duo based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The duo consists of Adhithya "Adhi" Venkatapathy and R. Jeeva. Their commercial break-through came with the song "Club le Mabbu le" in 2011. In 2012, Hiphop Tamizha rele ...

. The song also topped the Apple iTunes and radio charts for a number of weeks. Since then, she was nominated for the 63rd Filmfare - Best Female Singer Award, SIIMA 2016 for Best Playback singer and Edison Awards 2016. Kharesma has also sung the theme song for a Nepali TV show called '' PS Zindagi''. In January 2020, she released her first single "Marandhitiyo", which featured Paul B Salius and MadPanda, from her upcoming EP under the Underground Tribe label led by

Discography

References

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